The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-28

capped; fifty per cent. Of those who died
| might have been saved; feel safe in
| saying that seventy-five might have
been saved had the patients been pro-
pery cared for; the effect of the treat
ment of the prisoners was morally as
wen as physically injurious; there
| was much stealing among them; all
lived each for himself; suppose this
was superinduced by their starving
condition; seeing the dying condition
of some of them remarked to my
student, al can't resucitate them the
weather is chilling, it is a matter of i'm.
possibility" j found persons lying dead
| sometimes among the living; thinking
| they merely slept / went to wake them
| lasting sleep; this was in the hospital (;
| | Judge it was about the same in the
| stockade there being no dead house,
! erected a tent for that purpose; but
soon found that blanket or quilt had
been clipped off the canvass, and as the
material could not be readily supplied
| for repairs, the dead house had to be
| abandoned; 1 don't think any more
| dead houses were erected; the daily
ration was less i'm September, October,
November and December than it was
from the first of January to the 26th Of
| March the men had not over twenty
ounces of food for twenty -four hours
Without concluding DISCRIMINATION,
the Court at five o'clock adjourned until
Friday morning at ten o'clock. = s vg
The court again met on Friday, and
sumed . .tl.eraste sH. n
Dr. Bates, who testified yesterday, was
| again examined. From the LIST of Sep
TENDER, 1854, to January, 1865, the RAJ
lions were smaller than from January,
1866 to March 25th, of that year. Never
saw much interest manifested"by the
| Surgeon in charge, DR.. Stevenson.--'
There were less than 20 ounces of rations
given in "a hours. On an unvarying
diet man would starve to death on 20
ounces. The diet consisted of corn
meal, sweet potatoes and bacon, some
times good, sometimes very bad. Itwas
his opinion that men died there from
paucity Of rations. Sixteen ounces o.
meal give 20 ounces of bread, and six.
teen ounces of -four make22 ounces o
; bread. When he had charge he gav'
' the prisoners the benefit of the differ
, ence. The attendants got 81 ounces,an,
the patients in hospital % ounces. TIL
condition of the patients very much i'm
: proved after Ur. Clayton succeeded DIR
Stevenson, Amputations from gapgrept
in the fall of1664 were quite frequent
Witness could not give the proportion
of those who recovered in hospital and
We're sent back to the stockade. The
: prisoners were not well protected from
rain either in hospital or in the stock
AIDE. In the spring of 1865 a small shed
was erected in the stockade for the sick.
There was sufficient amount of wood
j on the outside of the prison, close al
hand, to furnish all the fuel and shelte
i, needed; 1888 prisoners had died whei
e witness left there, exclusive of about so
: that did not come under his notice.
2 While be was there an alteration oc
o CURED between DR.. James and Captain
: Wirz. On going into the hospital, on
Y morning he Qhe witness) found hi
!; chief clerk bucked by order of Captain
| Wirz, ON suspicion of being cognizant o
, the Whereabouts of an absent prisoner
There was much complaint of the ty
f ranny of Captain Wirz, and DR.. Jane
/ wrote letter ON the subject. The latte
complained
+ MI. Baker objected TO testimony about
the contents of the letter.
Witness resuming-Did not know
| what to say if the testimony about the
7 letter was ruled out. Letters passed and
: the clerk continued to be punished
t Witness thought that the correspon
: dence related to Objectionable conduct
> of Captain Wirz. The surgeon had fire
: quently talked the matter over. They
thought that Captain Wirz had no RICH
+; to interfere with the giving of medicine
t Here a pencil sketch of the scene q
the prison, showing the condition of thu
prisoners, was shown the witness. HI
, recognized the sketch as truthful rep
, resentation. The men represented a:
crawling on their hands and feet, will
buckets i'm their mouths, were those
who could not get along otherwise. II
was his (witnessO prerogative, as officer
of the day, to attend to the issue Of ra-
tons. The men would come to him af
ter the refuse bones, and said they want
ed to mash them up and get what they
could out of them. IA 'taf j.
A document, stained with ink, and
, purporting to be q medical report of the
officer of the day, was shown the wit
} ness, who recognized the hand writing
: as that of Dr. Pelot. alr n'
Mr.. Baker objected to the -intrOduc.
ton of such evidence at this time. The
prisoner was charged with consplrlng
| WIFI QUIET pdIllt5J Stho ~
{ in proof of those charges could be pro
perry received, unless those parties were
present in the court. If the Government
, intended to try other parties, it should
institute a general court of inquiry and
send for them. '-
A vote was then taken, and the OBJ
lection was not sustained
The document states that the officer
had inspected the hospital, and found
the inmates in as good condition as cir
cumstances allowed. Attention is call
ed to the character of the corn bread,
half raw, and made of unsifted meal.
The next ration did not exceed two
ounces per day. All the men received
was two ounces of boiled beef and a half
pint of rice soup apiece each day. Com
plants are also made by the officer of the
scarcity of medicine. and the horrible
sanitary condition of the hospital, and
the statement made that under the pre-
sent circumstances all that medical skill
could do would avail nothing.
The hour Of one having arrived re-
cess was taken until two o'clock.
Upon the Resembling of the court al
two o'clock, the witness, DR.. Bates re-
sumed. The man referred to as having
| been bucked was one of the prisoners