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

piled TO DR.. Clayton, in charge of the
medical establishment at that post. Ne
requisitions were ever made on Capt.
Wifz for anything in the medical de-
paftment for the prisoners. Capt. Wir2
had nothing to do with such matters. &
he simply had charge of the interior of
the stockade. He neveripterfered with
the professional duties OF witness. and
never was seen by witness to ill-treat
any one. The letters of complaint from :.
tne surgeons We're not addressed to Capt.
WIZ Witness had examined the bread
! cooked for the prisoners. Did not know
| whether the Confederates took bread +
from the prison bakery. Did not think
the water of the creek unhealthy. ex-
cept from the draining of the carnn.
| Should not like to drink the water as it
| then existed. fa5at M
| =. TESTIMONY or DR. BURROWS.
DR.. A. w. Burrows testified to having
been sent as prisoner to Andersonville
and being detailed as Surgeon III tho
Andersonville Prison, but after being
there about six months escaped lie
gave an interesting account Of how
Union prisoners, who had attempted TO
make their escape, were punished with
the stocks or chain gang. He testified
as to the insutticiency and unWhoiesOmo
character of the rations, and the absence
OF medical supplies, and gave a sicken-
ing account of the Cruelties visited upon
the prisoners. Bloodhounds were ae-
tually employed to capture escaping
prisoners, and among other things said
that men were vaccinnated with i'm
pure matter, from the effects of which
many died. He testifies also, that when
the prisoners were being removed from
Andersonville, one of the United States
prisoners fell back, when Wirz knocked
him down and jumped ON him.
The court then adjourned.
The Washington correspondent of the
Boston Adpertiser gives the following
description of the prisoner as he appears
in the eourt-room t4
Yet, the centre figure in the room is,
after all, this Swiss American Henry
Wirz, who God probably made, and yet
no man thinks of as brother. Is there
family relationship among fiends? Let
us be thankful that this one cannot
claim either American birth or educa-
tion--let us mourn that the sister Re
J publc of Switzerland must own his pa
rentage. WirZ came in with a quick
step, anda slightly embarrassed man
ner. He is about five feet eight in
: height, and of about one hundred and
thirty-flve pounds weight. He wears q
l.blackl coat, u dark vest, dark brown
pants, with reddish tinge, and white
shirt. His appearance is slovenly, and
he is roundshouldered and STOPPING. His
head Is high over the ears, Wanting in
the rear, and deficient In the upper fore
head. His hair is dark brown, and he
begins to be bald in front. He has full
whisker and moustache, cut to about
a half an inch in length. He is thin of
face, dark of skin, bloodless Of lips, dark
and keen. Of eye. His nose is thin and
sharp, his mouth very straight and
inelegant. There isn't much Of the
original villain in his appearance, though
he looks like man utterly without con-
! science and ready to do, for considera-
ton, almost any internal deed set for
him by a superior. He sat with his legs
crossed most of the time during the
reading of the charges aud specifications,
with his right hand against his cheek in
precise sort of way--speaking q word
now and then with his counsel, and
looking up occasionally to the soldiers
who stood, with bayoncts fixed, on either
side. He looks like man of forty years,
but has one of those faces always decep-
tive about age. He answered Eyes" and
moi two or three times, but it was not
enough to show how well he speaks
English.