The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-31

had been promptly punished and divided from the others
such scenes would not have occurred
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TESTIMONY or DIR. CArLIN.
Dr. Catln testified that he for two years In tho
Confederate army and from May TO September last on
service at Andersonvile ne saw sapsn WIZ a. no uS
the prisoners were being removed seize man VINO nad
fallen of the ranks and strike him once or twice. ON
another occasion he saw man bitten by dogs the man
the dog seized him. Captain Wrz was there at the tme
Cross-examncd-Did not know that Captain Wirz was
Know that Capain Wirz waded up TO his knees water
10 keen the dog from biting the man; did not the
prisoner seize the dog; the dogs were common fox
hounds.
Andrew Spring, prisoner at Andersonville, testified
10 the filthy condition OF the place and the bad quality OF
the food Of which was full Of maggots vegetables
were issued with the ratons but he succeeded in
smuggling some In which he had procured from a
Georgia regiments he thought there plenty Of green
in the neghborhood there being farm of seventy
five or one hundred acres strict order against trading
was issued by Captain Wrz; peaches, he judged were
pentfu the guard would seize peaches and vegetables
which had been Struggled in, and take them to Captain
Virus headquarters; the effect OF the treatment made
idiots of Of the men and crippled others;
one Of the prisoners ventured to ask Captain
Wirz to give him employment outside, that he might
draw additional ration; Captain Wirz replied, You
God damned Yankee son of bitch, If you don't 60 in
I'll starve every one OF you to death p this
mode of reply to prisoners another occasion he said
to prisoner who had endcavored to escape, 'If you
ever do that again IN shoot you I'll go to
holland know shall go there' rations were fur
nished to the dogs from the bakery; he saw man
brought in by these dogs attended by Captain Wirz and
Turner; he had some men working in the chain gang,
and one of them was reduced that he taken to
CO hospital and died. witness had seen men in the
S9pcks; about the 18th Of May he shot from
ing his revolver, swore he would kill every man who
did not get away from the gae another man, who was
asleep, rolled under the dead line and shot, he had
seen one OF our negro soldiers whipped nfy or seventy
five lashes for refusing to work, he being sick.
Cross examined. were about twenty negroes in
the squad never Captain Wirz shoot anybody;
Captain Wirz might have been attracted to the ground
know that Wrz demonstrated with the sentry for the
Shooting and removed him. the men were put into the
chain gang because they had attempted 10 escape
O. Did you anybody shot who Was rot COM
uniting an offence against the regulations? A. Yes, the
man who asleep and rolled over the line. IN the
of the examination the witness said the Of the
Fifty-ffth Georgia good Union men and friendly
told him that every sentinel who shot received as
reward furlough for thirty days. there are members
OF that Georgia regiment in court who can verify this
assertion; six eight times he had been to the store
house. which three four hundred feet long, and
always foundit filed with supplies, twothirds Of which
he supposed meal there at the time about
thirty two thousand prisoners and from five hundred to
two thousand Confederate troops there
The Court at four o'clock adjourned until Friday