New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-06

should be shot accompanying tho .cmsrk with a de
Of the damned Yankees while men lay faint
ing WIZ said that if it was inbs power he would make
the victory complete; he saw fLan shot early IN Juy
for getting water elthough he not over the dead
line and another wos SLOT while lying in his tent
the raions of some CT the SICK men were s'oppeS n
the witness shared bis rat ons with them three oi
died. viz Hugh Lynch, William Kiger and MI'l I
Waterhouse oil the Sd PeDnsy!yania Cavalryi tne ui
Iess among le men WIS great he haa seen tropsb men
searching IN the filth which had passed thronEn mn
for particles Of undgesed food and Tor scraps sno
raiders camp lie had seen vegetabes sucn AZ PO ond
toes, onions and peas, and also aPp'eS MON were
melons in the vicinity of the camps; Two meh Weie
buried inside Of the stockade the BODY oi one WHICH
rad lain four days was too purid TO take out 10,
Horao b. TerriIl Of the 12a ONO rerlen seS Io
that he was taken TO Andersonvle onthe istn OF June
Wirz threatened the using vile language ana cni
ing them damned Yankees; man VINO showeu 'hpt,
Wirz his ration of bread and asked whether DeteI
could NOT he furnished met with tho response: God
damn Won III give you bullets for bread" there were
not sinks enough for of the prsoners the
swami was more than foot deep with human excre'
ment This spoed the water in the wells; one oeca
sion he saw G corpses in the dead house. anC on announcer
Is or 100 the bodies thrown into the cart like dead
hogs IS or 20 being load; when the prisoners went
there Wirz came forward and read the rules saying
the prisoners would be shot if they entered the dead
line, and that any one speaking TO guerd wouid ne
shot by the guard without hating; WIZ also said u
any OF the Yankees traded with the guard and ala not
get what they barganed for. and then complained 10
him he would say; Good for the Yankee" and bnny
for the guard" they also informed that II any OF
the men were found disturbing things the ratlons
would be cut off till the perpetrators were found ana
punished; about the middle OF March. Wheh an OK
change was talked Of some OF our men by agreement
gave money TO the guard, $50 or less, for the hfS
chance ,-,,,uso,
On the cross examination the witness said he did not
know that Capt Wirz had forbidden the acceptance Oh
Robert Merton belonging to Pennsylvania regl.
ment testified that he had seen Capt WIZ wearing
shirts sent TO our prisoners by the Sanitary
il was common thing for our men to DC put INTO thc
chain gang and he had never seen the stocks empty
he man receive 20 lashes ior Carrying
into the hospital and he Wirz Kick SICK I'D anu
heard the dying statement of black man WHO was
shot in the back young man was shot Dy 6u ,
ho said he would shoot another he could get 70 Gays
furourh Wirz remarked that If he could have bis own
wav not "a men on the South side would get away
either by exchange or parole
/ ON being crossexamined the witness SAID ratlohs
were sopped because some of the 25 OF them) ad
been engaged IN digging tunnel in order 10 MAKE
their escape. The tunnel was dug with TN piales
oyster shells and whatever the men could get .
Frank Matox (col0red) belonging to the 35th United
States testified that after he recovered OF his wounds
in the head and foot he was put 70 %ST n at
a colored man whipped with go lashes; NC was
stripped naked and laid upon log ana whipped an
over; the man was afterward ironed; DO reieWd lhe
Circumstance Of White man VINO had Daekeu hls me-
and mixed with the gang OF eoored men I'D order 70
make bis escape; the man was discovered ana Whipped
Wirz saving as the BACKED himself TO be negro
he would give him the negro's law, namely 81 lashes
the witness had 70 together in this chain gang
for an entire week; he bad seen man torn ny dogs IN
shocking manner; though nearly dead, the man was
put into the stocks, ana Two days dteI iur ".Loo'
buried the man; this was in September. 1864; WIZ
while in the graveyard with several other officers SAID
" We have given the Yankees the land they came 10
fight for this was in October Wirz with some Oh the
doctors who with him IN the graveyard looking al
the corpses whose skulls had been sawed OF and the
green appearance Of the bodies which had 9eeh vaeen
sted laughed at the sight exhibited and the killing OF
the men he had 10 of the boxes sent by the SAM
tary Commission and Wrz put one OF the shirts ana
pair Of pantaloons
Cross examined Witness had four OF five Of the
cOlored prisoners whipped with 81 ashes the trenches
were seven feet long aud three oeepi the dead men
were laid side by side with faces up. aud the earth
thrown in; a Confederate surgeon superintendent the
burial and gave instructions TO pack the bodies IN
close which decenty dOnei there were no collins
nor boards of which TO make them.
By the Court--Ihe doctors in the graveyard with
Capt Wirz speaking about the effects OF the vac
cInation when Wirz said: Yes, God damn them, We
I gave them the land they came TO fight for.
4 The Court adjourned until 10 morrow.