Nebraska advertiser., 1865-10-05


when Wirz. said mo, he cannot have
, unless be pays me a dollar Under
wood gave Wirz his only money, vhic
was a ten dollar bilT,. aud when he aske
for change, Wnz knocked him out c
the store witness was put in the stock
four days for attempting to escape h
knew man to DIE in the stocks in Au
gust or September, 1864; the negroe
took him out of the stocks after be wa
dead :hey threw the body into a wag
on and hauled il off; he knew HIM ,als,
to shoot a young fellow named VIM
Stewart, belonging to the 9lh Minfe
sofa Infantry he and witness had gon;
out of the stockade with a dead body
which they had buried When they
met the prisoner he rode up to them and
asked hem by what authority they were
out there. Steward replied that they
we're out there by proper authority
Wirz said nomore, but drew bis revoI-
yer and shot him. After he was killed
the guard took from his body twenty or
thirty five dollars. Wirz took the mon
ey from The guards and rode eff, telling
them to carry witness TO prison. Il was
witness determination 10 escape If he
could, and for that reason he had gone
out but was not attempting to do So
At the time when the prisoners were
being removed to The cars for exchange
Wirz gave orders 10 Lieutenant Davis
to bayonet any man who laid down on
the road, and witness had seen men who
were crawling on their bards and knees
to the cars bayoneted by the guards
Witness heard one of them ask Wlrz
when he was going TO remove the Yam
KEGS, and Wlrz replied, damn the
Yankees. they will be dead in a few
days, anyhow" He had seen a priso-
ner who had been caught by dogs, with
a part of his cheek torn of, and bis
arms, hands and legs gnawed up so that
he only lived twenly-four hours"
Joseph Adler testified TO instances of
the suAripg of the sick similar to those
heretofore narrated by other witness
He mentioned the case of a man who
had been assailed by dogs. His throat
had been torn to pieces and blood was
running from The wounds. Wirz aud
Doctors White and Stevenson were
near at the time. Wirz said it served
the d-d scnundreI right The man
died on The spot the same day. Witness
also narrated The case of a sick man who
asked Wnz for food Wirz struck him
on the head with 6 riding whip. The
man went into fits aud died two days
after. OF the seventy men who accom-
panied the Witness TO the prison, all
died but twelve. He heard Wirz order
4 sentinel to fire at man who had cross
ed the dead line, and instructed him TO
FIRE whether the man was over the dead
inc or not. The sentinel shot the man
ii the Breast.
w. H. jennings, a colored soldier,
testified that his wound was not dressed !
ifter he was taken to Andersonville.-
He was whipped by Wirz for not going
10 work When he was unable to do So
Turner, the man Who had charge af the
logs, gave him thirty lashes on the back.
He was then put in the stocks for a
night and day with nothing TO eat OF
Jrlnk. He could not walk. Witness
saw a man who bad been shgckingly bit
eh BY tha dogs and who died soor after
T. n. Way, belonging to an Ohio
regiment testified that he wis punished
:0r fifteen minutes by being tied by his
his toes barely todching the
,tound. He attentpted to escape and
was tecaptured. EncOhhtefing Wirz,
he latter said. "WelI, you're back
again" Witnes5 replied II guess so. "
Wirz then said, ''1'm going to take care
If you this time Ill put you in The
stocks four days" Witness then said
okingly, Il had rather be carried than
valk." Then Wirz replied. you
I'D id son of b-b, if you give
ne any of your lip I'll shoot yOn." He
vas then put in the stocks for eight days.
His head and feet were fastened in the
stocks, his back TO the ground and bis
ace exposed TO the sun. The punish
nent was inflicted because he had at
empteG to escape. He knew personal
' about the hounds, as he had been
,aptured three or {, Or times by them
A young fellow named Freddy was
;aughI by the foot and afterwards torn
III to pieces by the dogs. In September
1864, while forming the line, q sick man
;Ould not find his place and ran up to
be line, when he was met By Wirz with
he exclamation, "You Cd d-n Van
rec son of BIB, if you don't get into
line I'll shoot YOU" He struck the man
rith his revoIvaF and knacked him s0rne