The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-05-26

| .nere we're sOJut ~ ,OOO pflsOeess there
Had 90 shelter aud half enough food L
Tive g. Hsd eees nes sfarvs 10 dsssh
The bodies Of those vho died we're slisx.
cd to Ne 9 or 10 dsys 10 trenchss vi,hou,
bsisg buried. They weald nss allow % %
bnry them. Witness bad a4ksa special
permission TO do 80 aud been refused. He
helped to carry out ten to forty pss day.
Some men were shot dead withous Cause
or prosoca,ion. Ills weight vas reduced
from l70 to l23 pounds. Did nos tLioh
hc would have lived there month longer
Wm. Butt, who wss : prisoner Il 40.
defsonvilIe for eleven moaths. testifi ed
the treatment was very poor. The men
had no shelter, bat we're compelled TO live
10 swamps. Their blanket., bats, caps.
ssd shsir eloihisg generally and money
vas tskeu from them. kations about
bali ! pint coro meal, 5 oascss OF bacon.
end half spoonful of salt for 9 hours
The bacon Vas alive. Once 10 > While
se got hold Of good piece. but not very
often. The treatment killed The men eG.
The largest Dumber Of deaths in ! dsv
10 his recollection vas 1873. SIS rva,ion
vas the cause. The enemJ said they did
not care . damn whether the Ysukee.
died or not. Howell Cobb made . speech
there in February. His remarks we're
very bitter. lie said The treatment was
The bsst they could do thss if Lhe a.
thonties looked after them li,lie
more closely they would fare bette /. lie
osiy said . few words and did nok see m
TO ssy much shout prisoners.
The heat Vas very intense. The wa
ter they had to drink had been made 6lthy
By garbage thrown into the crock The
reply ~ the remoosirs nee was thst they
did.'t care damn for the Ysnkees,- -
When witness vent there 10 June aa many
- six or eight were sho. dead day. Ii
. man got half foot over the drtd line
or near il be vas shit. Il "a, aaia they
& t = farIoush for thirty days fos shooting
, Yankee.
Cobb 10 his -fpeech said something
about . plan 70 hssn and plunder the
north. cannot tell what we're the word.
afed. The treatment Of sick prisoners
vas very poor. They go. pitch pine pills
FOR every Jihing. Toey got no regular med
cine Not ; sent Of the prisoners money
sAs distributed to them. For 8 d bnrhs
the witness lad nothing to wear bat !. /
psir oi drawers asd shirt. lis clpthes
had been taken from him. lie l4ia ou
The open ground for that time witbos. =
b;t of shelter. Thousands were In The
same tx
A corpes Of ! man who died nd the !
oould nos b. approached By aigtt
wishin tsessy feet and pitch folks lad to
10 be used 10 carry the body off TO t1e nch-
e.. The clothing sent there BY OUT gov
81 nmeSt was taken by the rebel Cb ylain
ID charge. Over halt The deaths wdre by /,
starvation. The food was the caus of |
their sickness and at.r they got sick the
food Was ID better. He cluld not thisk |
If eating such food north, bur . lpsu in
danger u starvation might.
<. w. Rosa, clerk iu Libby pri{oh 10
March. 1864, testifs "a he vas Ia II CHI
noad se the time of kiIpatriek's cfvairy
raid and bai then seen ,he iusc ia eIsj Il
Turner'S sfii.c. Itwas an eight deaood
fuse. Turner told him it was 10 bet off
the powder 10 case the raiders got into
the city and TO blow up the prisoners. Tue
osder vas t.keu sssy secretly. Turoer
sss . subrdinate of the war department
JJhn Ls'hsuxe . testified that Turner
told him Gen Wlsdsr had been to see The
Secretary of WAr.sn they we're going TO
put powder in the building. l. vas i'd, %
peuad packages. abou. loo pounds in all
A hole Mas dug 10 the middle blse m snt
and powder was put down there. The
.r round wss thso- covered over witi, gtav-
ii. took one OF the sentries from put
side Of The building and placed him yer
the powder that no accident might oc.
cur. Next day Turner showed Us tho
fuse in his ,ffi ,e.
The powder remained there I'LL May,
when the prisoners ~ere al removed
ten. Winder then seut word TO remove
tho powder as secretly 40 possible. Heard
MN ssy it .as to blow up the pises 10
case the raiders got into Richmond.
Lavina Washington beng sworn SAID
she vas DR.. NuId's slave and lett hun
two years sgo. Sne had heard Nudd Fay
the summer before last Lincoln would no,
keep Ills sea, long. Two or three men
we're present at the time dressed partly 10
grey and partly in black, AMI they slept
IN the parlor. DIR. Nudd Sometimes o.r
fied victusls 10 them.
Mary AiIey. also slave Of Dr.. Mud,
vas sworn aud les,i6ed that she left HE
house the month before last Caiis.mas. -
She saw tao or three men sometimes in
the house and sometisnes out in tLe
woods. Oae Of the men was John Sur
RAFT. Wnoess heard Garner say = Nuhd
thai .sOil Abe Lincoln is id old sou
Of b-h and ought to have bsen dead
long age." when Mudd replied Le Was
much II the same mind. luis was in 10
b acce plan,in, time last year.
Several other colorsd witnesses ,esiGed
as u Mudd and others csnyeIsins ps
praise OF the rebels. Garner said tu
Mud that S.oneSaii wac going TO cross
At Point Of kocks. take Washiagton and
burn Old Lincolu in bis house. Muad
ssld he cosld surprise the detenses, then
open the river.
Father Wright testified that he had