The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-09-14
The Werz Trial.

vice, who made an inspection OF the And
ersonville prison, testified to the indiffer-
ence of Gen. Winder to the comfort and
health Of the prisoners Winder said to
him, it would be better to let one-half of
the prisoners die, so that they could take
care of the remainder. Winder was af-
terward promoted
John Pasqe of the naval service testi-
fed as to man dying in the chain gang;
he was told by a sentinel that for every
Yankee he shot he received 80 days, fur
Tough and three months extra pay.
John A. Marshall, AID New Y ork, tes-
tilted that he saw two prisoners shot for
approaching the dead line in such cases
the sentries were released to go on fur
lough rations were stopped if men did
not form in line III such way as to please
Capt. Wirz; he knew of a man who
died from the effects of dog bites.
William NJ Fable of Southwestern
Georgia, who was detailed as clerk to Col.
Forms, Rebel officer in command, testi-
fed that while riding out he saw man in
the stocks, who he thought would drown,
as heavy rain was falling upon his face /;
the witness held his umbrella, over him
for a while, and than went to Capt =
Wirz to express his apprehension Wirz
said, "Let the damned Yankee drown )"
in few minutes thereafter, however, an
officer was sent from Capt. Wirzs head
quarters, who took the man out Of the
stocks ; the crops were not SO good in
1864 as in the year before, but the far
mers had surplus.
w. w. Crandall, 4th Iowa, testified as
to man being badly bitten in the calves
by dogs, and soon thereafter fastened at
each ankle with chain and ball the
man having been kept in this condition
for several weeks, the witness went to
Wirz and pleaded for the release of the
prisoner but Wirz said he could not do
it; the legs were swollen and had putre-
fed 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 detailed sections, helped to bury 80
or 40 of the men who had been shot dur
ing the time Gen. Sherman was march
ing from Atlanta to the coast, the pris-
news report came that Sherman and
his staff and $4,000 prisoners had been
captured Capt. Wirz said he hoped this
was true, and if the prisoners were sent
there he could take care of more damed
Yankees than four regiments in the front;
on one occasion barrel of rotten pork
was sent to the Commissary's Office to be
used by the Yankees the witness was
employed in that Office /; the next day he
received orders to weigh out the same
number of pounds of beef and turn it o
yer to Capt. Wirz, who wanted the best,
saying it was far his own eating he knew
the pork came from Capt Wirz's head
quarters ; prisoners who had money could
procure food one of them bought pie
but soon vomited itup another prisoner
near by grabbed up the rejected pieces
and ate them.
Cross-cxamined by Mr. Baker-The
dead were buried by Union prisoners, un-
der the superintendent of Rebel ser
5eant; the bodies were not treated indie
Gently, excepting that they were carted
ike logs Of wood, in order to get full
oad, as there was only Que wagon off
GERS and soldiers frequently came to the
yard and upbraided them for not
,urying the dead in better style, saying
hey ought to work night as well as day.
There were not more than thirty employ ;
ID In burying the dead, and in vain had ,
ndeavored to procure more help some Of t
he visiting Rebels said this graveyard (
7ould make a good vineyard, the Yankee !
ones atfording good..mnau>ss in.
ite their friends to cong ~
rapes he, himself, was &
or attempting to escape
d 100 miles before \.
y scouts as Rebel
-ould be hung for d
hem he was a Yal
ember, 1864.
William VI
avalry, testi6
cen appropriated IS
nd to him that he could y
ore God damned Yankees than
le front Wirz had threatened to shocsI
itness for some trivial complaint, and S
-dered the guard to fire upon man who 3
I'd stepped out to pick up piece of =
ood he hastened back to the ranks be. Il
re he could shoot. The witness said E
nong other things, that prisoners were s
duced to skeletons, and would 60 to the n,
nks to pick up undigested particles of r
od he mentioned several cases of shoot in
g men one of them, it was said by at b,
lst 20 men, to have been shot by Capt.
irz himself. ca
Troops to be Mustered Out. u
The Secretary of War issued instructions -: -
the commanding Gen. of the Department. w. I'
North Carolina Virginia, Florida, Texas. a. "a,
ulslana and Arkansas, directing them to 1nc'
nedlatley muster out of service all orpan- Se W