New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-29

oners were being rapidly reduced to tho same state BY
starvation and cruelty ana by neglect medc;nes IN
| the Confederate hospitals Your commtteo tahs
pleasure In saying that not only IL this charge proved
to De wholly false but the evidence scb Noptbsrn prs
oners Of war treated, highly credltaoe 70 tne
authorities which established them and 70 Inc
and their aids who have so humanely conouctso 'nem'
The Federal authorities In violation OF inc cartel
having for long time refused exchange OF prsoners
finally consented to partial exchange OF the SICK ana
wounded on both sides. Accordingly number OF such
prisoners were sent from the hospitals In Richmond.
General directions had been given that none snoua 20
sent except those who might be expected to endure the
remoya and passage with safety ~ their hves put IN
some cases the surgeons were induced to depart rom
this rule by the entreaties OF some officers anu men an
the last stages Of emaciation. suffering not only with
excessive debility but with nostalgia. or home SICK
ness whose cases regarded desperate and who
could not live IL they Remained, and might possibly I'M
prove II carried home. Thus 1t happened that some
very sick and emacated men weEe carried 70 Ahhapo
lis but tbeiness was not the result OF III Ieatment
or neglect. Such might be found In any large
hospital, North South. Thev might even pc iound
IN private families where the sufferer would DC sur
rounded by every comfort that love could bestow
these are the cases which, with hdeous violation OF de-
cency the Northern committee have paraded In pic
tuIes and photographs. They have taken their own
sick and enfeebed soldiers have stripped them nakedi
have exposed them before daguerrean apparatus
have pictured every shrunken limb and mnscle-and oil
for the purpose not Of relieving their suerngs but OF
bringing false aud slanderous charge against the
South.
CONFEDERATE SICK AND w0USDED-THEfR CoSDi-
| TON WHEN RETURNED.
| The evidence is overwhelming that the illness OF
these non) prisoners not the resut OF III treat
ment or neglect. The testimony OF Surgeons Semp'e
and Spence, OF Advantageous Tinsley Marriott
and Miller and OF the Union prisoners r. Darymple'
George Henry Brown and Freeman Is. league, ascer.
tsins this 10 the satisfaction OF every candid mind ot
In refutng this charge your committed are compelled
Northern ahch Rey fear Win not be
easily rcfIted In exchange, number OF Confederate
sick and wounded prisoners have been at various times
delivered az Richmond and at Savannah The mortality
among these the passage and their condition when
delivered deporabe as TO justify the charge
that they had been treated with nhuman neglect BY the
/ Northern authorities kk93
| Asst tant-Su geon Tinsley testihes: ~ have
many Of prisoners returned rom the North, VINO
nothing but ska and bones. They were as ENACT
ated IA could be 10 retain life. aud tho photo
graphs appended 10 Report No. o. would not be ex
aggernted representations Of our returned prisoners TO
whom thus alludc. saw 80 OF our sick brought In
on ,t.rs from the steamer Rockets Thirteen dcad
bodies we're brought of the steamer the same night.
AT leas, thirty died in night after the! were re-
oeiyed."
surgeon Spence testifes: "I was at Savannah, and
Jaw rather over 1900 prisoners received. The list
showed that large number had died on tho passage
| from baltimore 70 savannah. The number sent from
the Federal prisons 800. and out OF that number
they delivered only 02s 10 the best Of my recollection
Capt. Hatch can give you the enact number. Ihu-
about Az died on the passage was told thai OF dead
bodies had taken from train OF cars between
Rmira aud baltimore. After being received at Savan-
nah they had the best attention possible. yet many
died In a few days. In carrying out the exchange OF
| dlsahlcd sick and wounded men, We delivered at Sa-
vannnh and Charleston about II go Federal prisoners
and their physical condition compared most favorabl
with thoSe we received In exchange although o,
oour,e the worst chses among the CoDfederatcs had
been removed by death during the passage
| Richard II. Dihrcll merchant OF Richmond, ana
member of the Ambulance committee" whose labors
IN mitigating the suffering. Of the wounded have
been acknowledged both by Confederate and Norihern
msr thss tsstiGss concerning our sick aud wounded
soderr a, Savannah returned nom Northern prisons
and ospits " have never seen set Of men In worse
condition. Ihoy were No eneebled aud emacated that
We lifted them like little children. Many OF them were
like living skeletons Indeed, there was one poor boy.
about II years old who presented the most distressing
and deporsbe appearance ever saw fio was notlnns
eaten MP with verniin He died In the hospital In few
days after being removed thher. Notwithstanding the
kndest treatment and the Of the most judioous
nourisbmHt. Our men were in so reduced condition
that than trip onhe short passage OF ten
miles from the transport. TO the city. many five
state Of taters and fifth" THE mortality on the pas.
sage from Maryland was very great ~ wellte that on
the passage from he prison, o tho por, rom which
they started cannot atate the exact number. but
think heard that 3 800 were started and We only re-
ceiyed about on. have looked a. the photographs
appended TO Report No. 6' OF the committee Of the
Federal Congress and do hesitate to declare that
several OF our men were worse cases OF and
sickness than any represented in these photographic
The testimony Of Mr.. Dbrell is confirmed by that Of
Andrew Johnston. also a merchant OF Richmond. and Q
member OF the ambulance committee"
Thus II appears that the sick and wounded Federal
prisoners at Annapolis whose condition has been made
subject Of outcry and OF vide spread complaint by
the Northern Congress not in state than
were the Confederate prisoners returned frsm North
hospitals and prisons Of which tho humanity and
superior management are made subjects Of special
Boosting BY the United States Sanitary CoDmissioni
| CONFEDERATE HOSPITALS FOR PRIsoHERs.
| In connection with this subject, your Committee
take pleasure in reporting the facts sscertaned by
their Investigations concerning the Confederate hospi.
tails for sick and wounded Federal prisoners They
have made personal examination. and have taken evil
denoe specially in relation TO Hospital No. 81" In
Richmond because this has been made the subject OF
distinct charge In the publication last mentioned. II
has been shown not only by the evidence Of the sur
geons and their assistants but by that 6 Federal prs-
oners the treatment Of the Northern prisoners In
these hospitals has been everything that humanity
could dictates that their wards have been wen vent'
cured for them; and, In fact. that no distinction
had been made between their treatment and that OF our
own sick and wounded men. Moreover, 1t Is proved
that has been the constant practice 10 supply to the
patients out Of the hospital funds such articles Us milk
butter eggs tea and other decacies when they were
by nS y Of
George Henry brown Of Pennsylvania and Freeman B
Teague of New Hampshire. whose dispositions accom-
pany this report.
This humane and considerae usage was not adopted
In the United States hospital on Johnsons Island.
whore Confederate sick and wounded officers were
treated. Colonel j. II. Holman thus tesiifes: 1.-THE
Federal authorities did furnish 10 the sick pris
oners the nutriment and other articles which were
prescribed by their own surgeons. All they would
do to permit the prisoners 10 buy the nutriment
or stimuants needed and II they had no money.
they could not get them. kaow this. for /
was in the hospital sick myself and
had TO buy. myself. such articles as eggs, milk.
four chickens and butter. after their doctors had pre-
scrbed them And know this generally the case,
for we had to get up fund among ourselves for this
purpose TO aid those who not well supplied with
money! This statement Is confirmed by the testimony
of A citing Assistant Surgeon John j. Miller. who was
at Johnson's Island for than eight months When