The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-11

i WARRINGTON, Sept. 0.-More dOcu
mentary evidence was submitted today
A letter from Acting Adjutant and In
sPector General ID. u. Chandler to As
slstant Adjutant and Inspector General
Col. II. ii, Chiffon, was the first in 1t
he lauds the administration of Captain
WIZ for his untiring energy and gen.
eraI competency, and suggests the re.
moval OF Brig, Gen. Winder, and the
lsubsttution of a man OF good judgment
and humanity.
Col. Chandler was then sworn; he had
no retraction to make ofanything in his
report. He had conversations with
| Wtnder about the bad condition of the
prison. Winder said It would be better
TO let half die SO they could take care OF
the remainder. Winder had told other
people SO.
Of the naval service, testified TO IL man
dying on the chain gang. He was told
by a rebel sentinel that for every Yam
kee he shot he received thirty days fur
Tough and three months extra wages.
j. A. Marshall, 42d New York, testi-
fed that he knew of n man who died
from the effects of dog-bItes.
VIM. NJ. Fable, OF southwestern
Georgia, who was detailed as clerk to
Col. Forne, n rebel officer in command.
testified that while riding out he saw a
man in the stocks, whom he thought
would drown, ms Il heavy rain was fall
ing upon his face. Ho held his um-
brella over him for while, and then
went to Capt. Wirz to express his APP
prehensions. Wirz said, "Let the id
Yankee drown" In few minutes
thereafter, however, an officer was sent
from Wlrz' headquarters, who took the
man out of the stocks. The crops were
not SO good in 1854 as in the year be-
fore, but the farmers had surplus.
w. w. Randell, 4th Iowa, testified to
man being badly bitten in the calves
by dogs, and was soon thereafter fasten-
cd ut each ankle with chain and ball.
the man having been kept in this con-
ditionfor several weeks. Witness went
to Capt. Wirz and plead for tho release
of the prisoner, but Wirz said he could
not do 1t. The legs were swollen and
had purified look. A rebel surgeon
being appealed to, said he could not
conscientiously take Off more than one
chain, which he did. The man finally
died. The witness, as one of the detail
cd sections, helped to bury thirty or
forty of the men who had been shot.
During the time Gen. Sherman was
marching from Atlanta to the coast. the
prisoners were of course very anxious
70 hear the news. A report came that
Sherman and his staff and 500 prison-
e on, mad been captured. Capt. Wirz said
ne hoped this wns true, and that II
the prisoners were sent there he
could take care of more damned
Yankees than four regiments in the
front.
On one occasion barrel OF rotten
pork was sent to the commissary's of
nee to be used by the Yankees. The
witness was employed in the office. The
next day he received orders to weigh
out the same number of pounds of beef
and turn it over to Capt. Wirz. who
wanted the best, saying it was for his |
own eating.
Cross-examined by Mr.. Baker-,rhe
dead were buried by Union prisoners
under the superintendence of rebel, |
The bodies were not treated indecently, |
excepting that they were carried like
logs of wood, in order to get u full load |
as there was only one wagon. Officers
ana soldiers frequently visited the |
graveyard and upbraided them for not
burying the dead In better style, saving
they ought to work night us well as |
day. There were not more thnn thirty
men employed in burying the dead, |
and in vain they had endeaVored to
procure more help. Some of the visit |
ing rebels said this graveyard would
make good vineyard; the Yankee
bones atfording good manure; let us in |
Vite their Yankee friends to como md |
eat the grapes. He himself was nut in
the stocks for attempting to escape.
He had proceeded l60 miles before he |
was apprehended by scouts as n rebel |
deserter. Fearing he would be hung
for being rebel, he told them he was
a Yankee. This was in September,
1854.
Wm.Van Bnren, of the ID New York
cavalry, testified MS to blankets and
Pants from the Sanitary Commission |
having been appropriated by the rebels. |
Wirz said he could take care of more
Cd did Yankees than Lee could Mt |
the front.
WirZ threatened to shoot the witness
for some trivial complaint, and ordered |
the guard to fire upon n man who had |
stepped out to pick up piece of wood, |
fore the guard could shoot. Adjourned.