The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-08-31
The Win Trial.

ment 81 osr prisoners at ,Andcrson-
; vile. Weere well satisfied that the
ttoasofaBie Copperhead shec,s pub
lished in Ohio will denounce them as
abolition lies" to create few votes
for their "bastard" ticket nominated
at Columbus on The 2ith inst. The
lfollowingetc the extracts: A'8
| Captain Wirz was brought in a
few minutes before IL O'Clock.
The record Of yesterday having
been made at length, the examination
Of DR.. John G. Bates was resumed.
Speaking Of Audersonville prison,
he said the scurvy thSte was next to
rottenness some Of the prisoucts
could not cat because there was no
mastication their teeth weto loose
and they frequently asked him 70 give
them somsthing TO eat WHICH would
not cause pain while DIR. Stevenson
was Medical Director he did not mani
fest much interest In the relief Of
their necessities the rations were
less than twenty ounces in twenty
four hours he did not know but
what a man would starve to death on
IL, especially If the food was of q few
articles and monotonous; sometimes
the meatwas good aud sometimes bad
in consequence Of The pancity andun-
wholesomness Of the rations somo Of
the men starved to death amputa-
tons and rcamputations, owing to the
lgangrenous wounds, we're numerous;
there was,pleny ofvood in the neigh
borhood, which might have been cut
to answer all demands. ~ ]}i,,,
DR.. A. w. Burrows, being swoth,
testified that he had served as ply
sician TO the 9th Massachusetts,
was taken prisoner at Plymouth, and
finally found his way to Anderson
vile, where ho was parolcd by Cap
tain Wirz, and placed in charge Of
two wards Of the hospital. He re-
maincd there six months, till the 9th
Of October, when he made his escape;
since which time he had practiced
medicine at home.
When ho went to Andersonyille.
there were 600 or 700 patients living
on the the ground, Thoy were par
TALLY naked. Some had broken
limbs and gangrene, scurvy and
chronic diarrhea. Nine tenths Of tho
patients were lying on the ground,
while the others had insufficient shell.
ter. Captain Wirx would say, when
any prisoner escaped or attempted to
escape he would starve every dam ncd
Yankee for such attempt. The pris-
oners were punished in stocks or
chain gangs. Theestocks consisted
OF . frame fork six feet high, with
boards shut together with room for a
mans neck. Some men thus fasteu.
ed could stand on their feet, while
others merely touched the ground
with their toes. The chain gang was
sometimes composed Of six men and |
sometimes of eighteen. They wore
handouts, and chains were passed |
around their necks and legs, and to
these chains thirty-two pound ball
was fastened. The gang would be
eld together one or two weeks, the
m en- meantime being exposed to sun
n i'd rain, which had the effect ofl
W sakening and reducing them. lie
h,, d no doubt Of tho fact that some
di' I'd in consequence. .,.,.,rlo |
Another kind of punishment was
putting the feet in the stocks, the
feet being sleyated,s and the other
part Of the body lying on the ground.
The witness never got from DR..
White what he asked for, there always
being some, evasive- answer. Anti
scorbutice were much needed, but
not supplies. He proposed, but the
refused to allow him to
take men and cut timber; which could |
have been procured ten rods distant. |
Hounds were kept near the hospital TO
get the trail Of escaping prisoners,
who, when caught, were brought
back and put in the stocks. Tho
witness knew ofa case, where man,
under sudh circumstances, was man.
gled in the face by one of tho dogs,
but recovered. iAnother case came
under .his observation. 1t was in
August or September, 1864, when
Union prisoner wds woiinded by one
Of the hounds. He died indirectly |
from the bite, but directly 'ffom gan |
CREME. He had seen Captain Wirx
on horse back, with hounds, but Tur~
ner seemed to have dirsc -ckafge of
the dogs.
He had heard wirx order Sergeant
Smith 70 .start the hounds, as some
body had got away"
VERY large sores had resulted from
vaccination. The matter was pison-
Gus. and many deaths and amputations
II Eit
The ration, when he went there,
was small---two ounces of bacon,
small potato, corn bread two and half
inches square, and no'ooGees tea, su-
gar or four Some times there was
little rice soup-a gallon Of rice in
thirty gallons Of water. -
In July they got lew vegetables,
not a spoonful a day. The morals
Of the prisoners were corrupted by
cruel treatment. Men would steal
from each other something to eat,
and would work among hthe filth for
potato parings, or any thingelse. Al
Unlon man in his ward Yves shot
within the hospital bya eopfsderate
soldier, and wounded in the thigh.-l
The limb was amputated, and the man
died the neAt day. When a raid was
expected from Fitzpatrick, the witness
heard, Captain Wirz give an ofder to
fire upon the prisoners If they hud-
died together. 'nf t'-f .et
There were from thirty.three to
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