The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-26

might as wel be asked whether he wtness believed the
prisoner guilty 1t was Of no consequence
Mr. BAKER replied that the question was OF snIiclent
Importance to cause an objection hom the learned gen
tleman.
The CouRr decided not TO sustain the objection.
Tie witness was then asked whether he knew OF any
prsons who by their conduct conspired to murder or
otherwise Gauss the death OF Union prisoners he e-
pied be had never been impressed, he had always
objected to the necency and character CT the ra,ons
the shortness OF the allowance was OWING 10 s naus
been furnished by the Southern ccnfederacy furser
supplies could not be furnished except by gong tc the
country ard none OF the officers had The rsnt 70 70
loraSine The surgeons always did the best they could
and frequently complained 10 the Surgeon General about
tue ihsuifciency OF means furnished
. By the couRr-suppes were received from the North
irm the sanitary Commission, ard he saw some ot the
prisoners wearing the clothes which had been furnished
EXAMINATION OF DIR. A. W. BURROWS.
Dr a. W. burrows being sworn testified that ne had
served as physc to the Twenty.seventh Massachu
sctts was taken prisoner at Plymouth and finally found
his way to Andersonvlle where he paroled by Cap
tam Wrz and placed IN charge OF the two wards Of the
hospal he remained there six months till the 9th of
october when he made his escape since which time he
had practiced medicine at home; when he went TO An
oersonvlle there were six hundred patients
lying on the ground they were partially naked some
had Droken limbs and gangrene scurvy and chronic
darrhea; nine tenths OF the patients were lying on the
ground while the others had insufficient shelter Captain
Wrz would say when any prisoner escaped attempted
to escape that he would saye every damned Yankee for
such attempt the prisoner punished either in the
stocks the chain gangs; the stocks consisted of a
framework six feet hgh with boards shut together with
for mans neck; men thus fastened could stand
their feet while Others merely touched the ground with
their oes and the chain gang sons times composed of
six men and sometimes eighteen they were handcuned
and chains passed around their cks and legs and to these
chains thirty two pound ball was fastened; the gang
would be held together two weeks, the men
time being exposed TO the sun and rain, which had the
effect Of weakening and reducing them he had doubt
OF the fact that died in consequence another kind
Of punishment was putting the feet IN stocks the feet
beng elevated and the other parts of the body lying ON
tho grourd; the witness never got from Dr. White what
he an.ed for there always being some evasive answer
antiscosbucs were much needed, but not supplied he
proposed but the authorities refused TO allow him to
take men and cut timber which could have been pro-
cured ton rods distant hounds were kept near the nos
pai TO get the trail of escaping prisoners. who when
caught were brought back and put in the stocks the
witness knew Of case where man under such circum
recovered; another under his observation
was In the August September of 1884, when Union
died, indirectly s from " the Ua' bite, BIZ w but directy
from gangrene; he had scen Captain wirz
on horseback with the hounds, but Turner
seemed to have direct charge Of the dogs he had heard
Wrz order Sergeant Smith to start the hounds as some
body had got away very large sores had resulted from
vaccination the matter used was poisonous and many
deaths and amputations resulted the raticn when hc
went there was small-two ounces Of bacon, small
potato, corn bread two and half inches squarch no
cohee tea sugar -four: sometimes there was little
nee soupa gallon OF rice In thirty gallons OF water in
July they got few vegetables-not spoonful day
treatment would steal from each other something
to eat, and would work among the hlth even for
his was xss shS, Within The hospital
rebel soldier and wounded in the thigh
the limb was amputated and the man died the next day
When raid expected from Fitzpatrick, the witness
heard Captain Wrz give an order to fire upon the pr
II they huddled together; there We're from hir
tythrce TO thirysx thousand prisoners there at the
time and in the month Of August appeared from the
official report nearly three thousand died. on the re-
moving Of the prisoners from Andersonve one OF them
fell back, when the witness Captain Wirz knock the
man down and stamp upon him; this was in septem
ber, 1854; Wrz had revolver in his hand, but the
witness did not know that Wirz used 1t to knock the
prisoner down.
Al QUAKER to four O'Clock the court adjourned until
tomorrow,