Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1865-09-22

WAmusrox. Sept 2i.-A number Of vitnesss
were Examined Yesterday, but the testpony
did not materially differ from that already given.
The Commission reassembled TO day. Wnz 10
semewhst Improved in health
j. Burns Walker. among other things. test
fed that Geo Howell Cobb came 20 Anderson
vile on the 4lh day Of March, and tie psrolsd
prisoners outside we're notified that ne de-
sired TO bear the General We could go down;
good MANY OF Us vent down, add fonnd General
Cobb 10 the midst OF the crowd; the Second
Georgia Regiment, / think. was there ne
made q speech, In which ne referred
to the prisoners. be said be was sorry
any prisoners had been captured. and be would
hang every prisoner II he had bis way;
he further said il prisoner comes up TO your
house to take Jour chickens or pigs hsrg hin, II
prisoner comes 10 your house TO speak TO the
women hang him; he thcn referred 10 President
Lincoln, and said If President Lincoln gets me
be will hang me- aud il ever get him will
hang him. 10 referring to the conduct OF Capt
Wirz. he said be was glad to find the state of
things around Aadersonyille such az fhey were;
and be recommended Capt Wirz IS being a very
mertorious and efficient officer, doing his duty
and doing il well; be said to the Confederate
troops around him, "look over into that stocksde
pointing bis finger directly 10 il, :" Go look over
there, and compare yourselves with those men,
eA0 ~ uOtnt anu hiss Io1t Wives AM sH octI 5Asn
and see If you can't gain your independence"
de further said. in connection with the grave
yard and the treatment be would give to the
prisoners, :" would treat the prisoners well;
woald feed them; l would care for them;" HE
voice, when he said he would care fer them. as-
sumed a stentoran tone He spoke harshly aud
as If With deep meaning, pointing a, the same
time at the graveyard as if meaning that would
be the care he would give them. The speech was
received with some hurrabng, but not so enthu-
siasticaily as j have seen speeches received in
other places.
Ambrose Spencer. residing nine miles from
Andersonville, testified that he visited the prison
every month. and had ample opportunity of as
certaining It's condition, which was wrstched and
degrading as tae Euind could well conceive The
odor from the stockade cesld be detected q dis
lance oftwo miles. This section of the country
was we'll supplied with mills for grain and lun-
Der. IL was probably the most denssly wooded
of any in the United States. As to fertility, he
believed Southwestern Georgia was regarded as
the garden spot of the Contederacy, 0om which
immense quantities of supplies were drawn fer
the army. There was en- uncommon args sup
ply OF vegetables In the summer Of 1864, some
OF which were taken from Americas 10 Ander-
sonvle for the use Of the Confederate officers
He had no knowedge of ladies gathoing clorhing
and food for the relief of the prisoners; General
Win0er, IN the presence of himself, vile and sew
eral other ladies, said, with oath, that he be-
iieved the whole country WAS becoming Yankee,
and he would be id if he wouldn't put a stop
to tiff not one way, another; the witness re
piled that the exhibition of humanity was not
evidence of the fact of that assertion; Winder
said it was sur on the Confednerscy, and a
covert attack upon himself; witness informed
him that the supplies were forwarded at the re-
quest of Rev. Mr.. Davies, when Gen, Winder re
piled, That's a id lie; as for himself, be
would "a soon the id Yankees should die there
as anywhere else, he believed it would be bet
ter" Gen. Winders language On that occasion
was utterly unfit 10 be reported; in subseq uent
conversation with p. .B Winder, Lieutenan,
Reed and Capt. Wrz. Reed observed that if
General Winder had doEe as he wanted him
not to do il, Reed would have made a good
spec" out of Tue clothing and supplies Capt.
WirZ said il be had bis way he would have
house built for certain infamous purposes, in
which be would place these benevolent wozeH.
K. B. Wiader concurred in this remark by laugh
ing At the laying cut OF the prison W. S Win
der was there experimenting The witness AJAX
Cd him II be was not going TO erect sheds and
shelter and Why he was cutting down the trees,
to which he replied, am going to build ths
pen so as to destroy mora ID ankees than
can be destroyed at the front Gen J. H. Win
der always swore when the name Of Anderson
vile was mentioned The witness described
him as bsreit of feeling aud humanity and
brutal man