The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1866-03-14

gunlZed into Divisions OF about thousand eX-
cept the 9th and 10th, which had about 5OOeach-
each Division was divided into ten squads
! there was no regularity in drawing rations-we
got it when we could, just as the divisions were
| called, sometimes in the morning, sometimes at
noon and sometimes in the middle of the night.
Rebel officers came in several times to recruit for
! the rebel army-they usually came when we had
been without rations for some time--they offered
bounty of $50 Confed., and a loaf of bread-the
wood was received by detail of from one to four
to bring it for the squad of 100-they had to 60
about the eighth ofa mile for it-usually on the
coldest day the least number had to go-we got
it in large and small sticks Of oak or pine-gen-
orally divided it into two or three fires to each
squad-they cut it up with railroad spikes
in the squad was in. Water was very poor
| there, were think, nine wells in the yard-some
times we were allowed to go to a brook, and
bring water in barrels-this water was very good,
that in the wells was bad and nasty and by sitting
would get scum on top-we called it magnesia-
water-we drew water from the wells with little
dippers, taking some of our garments and tearing
them up to make strings. The sinks were on
South side of the camp, ii was ditch forming part
of the dead line-it had rafters laid across, with
one plank laid along on them--I never saw any
means used to cleanse or purify the sinks, it was
generally very nasty around them and they could
be smelt all over the camp-the prison grounds
were dirty at first-about the 1st December there
was police force detailed to clean the camp
and they drew extra rations for doing it.
I Judge the average number of deaths was forty
from, tiun fhpv tlprat till left
think about 5000 died-I never was in the hos
ptal as patient, but have been in to look round
don't know as to the general accommodation
for sleeping-in my squad there was about half
blanket apiece, and think we wer. about as well
off as any-I don't think they were allowed much
to buy food from citizens--thcy sometimes
bought, and have sometimes seen them refused
sometimes saw what they had bought taken
away from them-when we went after water we
saw women with things to sell, but they were not
allowed to sell them-I weighed 135 when cap
tured and weighed so pounds on arrival at Will
mngton, 1 Judge weighed about 13O, when ar
rived ut Sa,isbury-we left Salisbury on the 22nd
of February, and arrived at Wilmington, End Of
March--went from Salisbury to Greensboro on
foot, and the rest TT the way by Railroad-there
was no other body of prisoners marched from Sails
bury, to Greensboro, besides the one l accom-
panied; judge there were about two thousand
of them.
[Thc Court was cleared for consultation. When
the doors were re-opened the witness again took
the stand. Z
CROSS EXAMINED.
There was sutler at the prison at Salisbury
The sergeant of the squad belonged to was
named Currier. of the seth Massachusetts regi-
ment-dont know the name of the Sergeant Major
OF the Acknowledgment Currier is dead-he
did not die in prison, / think he lived at Natiek.
do not know the accused. have made no state
ments, since reached Raleigh, to any one, con-
Trajectory to the statements l have made in my
evidence. l do not know that the wells in the
prison were at any time furnished with curbs and
buckets-I did not see any there. The suffering
Ispeak of was greatest in the last of October.
VIM. Smith called and sworn-26 years old-re-
sides In Boston, Massachusetts. l was soldier
of the United States army, and taken prisoner on
10Th of August, 1864 at Deep Bottom, Va, 1 be-
longed to 4th New Hampshire, / was taken to
Richmond, Va, from there to Belle Isle, and
from there to Salisbury-reached there on Octo-
Der 7th 1864. / recognize the accused, Maj. Gee
have seen him at the prison at Salisbury
There were between 90t md 10, 900 prisoners con-
fined at Salisbury, thirk-I left Salisbury, Feb
ruary 10th 1S65-soon after / went to Salisbury,
part of the time had charge of party of fifty
| men, don't know how long, near month"; then
acted as nurse in a hospital As chief of this
squad drew the rations-we drew sometimes in
the morning, and sometimes in the afternoon,
there was no regularity-we drew half q loaf of
bread TO a man, and once fortnight, should
Judge we DR. W meat, and for 100 men, four pals
of rice soup-that was all we drew generally-we
had tripe once as rarity. The hall loaf OF bread
never saw weighed-the soup was of rice boiled
in water, with fat which came off the pots in the
morning thick, sometimes burnt and
sometimes it was pretty thin
l have seen where the soup was made-when
went to draw the rations, saw the boiled rice
dipped out of the pot and put in the hot wafer to
make the soup. was nurse in Hospital No 8,
the second one of the four inside-patients had
fever and diarrhea, and some cases of frozen toes
were treated in that hospitalin that hospital The
patients lay on the floor, generally they had no
blankets-they were pretty bad off when brought
in--they were laid on the floor, part of the time
on straw, and part of the time without straw-we
| had nothing to take care of them with-had med
icines about half the time-that hospital would
have accommodated thirty-five-at times We had
over forty in it-cant tell the number of deaths
in it from my own personal knowledge, nor the
number discharged from it. The diet of the sick
was some better than that of the other prisoners,
at least as to amount but not as good for sick
men--it was about the same in quality, the sick
received more meat than the prisoners outside
The Surgeons call was generally in the morning,
between eight and nine o'clock-the Surgeons
visited the hospitals daily-there were no facili-
ties allowed forkeeping the hospitals clea-thcy
did once or twice issue us bunch brooms to sweep
the hospitals with Don't know the proportion
of those who died outside the hospitals to those
| who died in them We drew rations from the
hospital cook house, which was distinct from the
other cook-house-we got the bread from the
bakery-we drew for the sick and the nurses
sometimes got twelve or fifteen rations more than
belonged to us in order to get enough-this was
names of those dead or discharged, in sending in
his reports-during my stay in this hospital, the
deaths in it were between 500 and 325-that is du-
ring the time was there, from the latter part of
October to the 22d day of February. Straw was
furnished the hospital twice or three times, can't
say as to the amount at each time-lying on the
| floor generally created in the patients what are
called "bed sores these sores are on the hips
near the hip joint, making hole in the flesh
have seen them on men in that hospital. The