The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-04

was prisoner al ARdeTsQ tlYill u IrQlll
( the stIi OF March until SgpteEdt g. 50
( He thought that Capt, Win assumed
command about The fiESt Of April. On
One occasion Win came into the stock
sde, when a cripple walking on Crutehea
APPROACHED and asked TO 70 outside.
4. The rs.i uest was refused, aud the GRIP
Z pie said he would rather be shot than
stay there. The witness soon heard
WfFz hallOo TO the sentinel, 'sTell that
man II he did not 90 back he would
shoot him." The InAn did not return
when the sentinel firedAnd shot him Ia
theJ Jaw. The cripple was known by the
name Of ChickRniauga. FirL amer
wards threatened 70 shoot the other
men II they did not 90 away. On an
other occasion, while tho prisoners were
being divided into squads Of hundreds,
one Of the men, owing 70 sickness, did
not fall in. Wirz threatened to shoot
him, and did shoot him; the ball went
through the mans hat. The prisoners
were Kept In the sun all day, and were
not allowed to procure water, IflhRy
could not give Z satisfactory account Of
any one Of their number missing they
were deprived OF their rutions; this WAS
the case for three days early in July.
There was NOT sufficient room In the
prison, scarcely enough for men to
stand upon; the Limits we're enlarged
on the north side; there were T., OO0
prisoners there 1t one time. He hnd
heard WirZ Say he was killing more
Yankees than thhs who were serving
at the front. Witness had seen TWEEN
tty.iive or thirty men shot over the dead
line and OILERS tirsd Into who were not
over the dead line.
Cross-examlned by the defense-Q.
We're there not desperpdoes there-lnen
who would steal and commit other of
fences, and was not the cripple to Whom
yOn referred one Of them7
! A. There were troublesome ehArae-
tiers there, but ] don't know whether
thai man belonged to them or not. l
don't think that cripple onN crutch
was good man L, steal. Laughter.l
During further examination the
witness spoke Of man at whom the
sentinel fired. M
q. Did you see the ball hit him :
a. A man must have very good eyes
10 see u bnlf when Il strikes a maii.-
LAughter.l sI
Witness gave various instances OF
men being shot. One was shot while he
was In his tent for merely stretching his
arm beyond the dead line. Another
wus shot at for reaching over the line.
/ heard Capt. .WirZ order the sentinel to
shoot the cripple. Some Of them shot
It wore killed and others were taken
to the hospital. Jas. II. Davidson teS-
tiled that ho wasR member of tho Iowa
cavalry, and taEends a prisoner to An
tlersonyille on the SUI of March. He
described the flthy condition Of the
prison and the great mortality among
the prisoners. For o week he drove the
dead whgpn, sometimes % men were
thrown into tint one time, and on re-
turning hewOuld bring wood and rn-
tions IN the allne cart. He had seen
blankets, shoes, and shirts on them
sent there by tie Sanitary Commission
for tho use OF our own men, Captain
Wirz, he knew, made a breakfast on
some of. the crackers, cheese and beef
sent there for our prisoners. lie had
seen four or five hundred boxes ut the
depot marked ~. s." II WINS common
for him TO be put In the chain gang, one
man died in the chain gang; With an
iron collar around his neck,
Wirz shot "A man II short time aftnr
no assumed communal of tho prison,
The latter Nyns sick, living on the ground
and asked Wirz something when Wirz
sbot him. Wirz remarked that he was
Killing more YanlsUeS there than Leo
was NJ IIiehm6nd. THIS was snil in
August, WirS Wis pt the timerWith
the witness in tiefgrayG yard In the
wagon with the dead men. The wit
ness had seen men starved to death.
The food was so scarce at one time that
some OF them picked up PARTICLES Of
food TINT had already passed through
the system. sa.
On his cross.examInation by the de-
tense, the witness sall The eriIve yard
covered % or 80 acrts and when he left
AndersonVille otitte I'm Of Septembe Der
last itlwnS nbont .tWo-thlfIls full. Wit
ness had never seen FiEz shoot more
than one man, The grave diggers were.
Union soldiers, "a
Examined nv the Coiirt-The dead
were buried about two laet and half
deep, while some were buried with and
some without clothing, Witness had
never seen any Of die dead stripped be-
fore they3wers buried THE men were
In trenches and on ono occasion 100
bodies were put into a single trench,
Captain j. ii. iWrialit and Colonel
Fnnning. formerly "a Tie Confederate
service. testified az 10 the signatures Of
General WinlGr and CantaiI Wirz TO d
consolidated return f6f August last,
which was exhibited % them.
Major Hosmer. Associate Judge Adj
yocoie. was sworn. and testified that he
Obtained the phpef nom tho chief ;hay-
inc custody, Of he Febll pnpers ilt the
war Department: 'tiio PAPER was read in
evidence, and q IS follows: