Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-03-30

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Gods throne against his murderers,
Seward and Stanton.
WrRz should have been in the Federal
service. There, he might have gained
honour and glory, like Colonel w. 2.
WOOD, Superintendent at Fort Della
ware. "At9a.m.," says Lieut.. HAIR
DmeE, al ate my initiatory meal at
Fort Delaware, consisting of a piece OF
Aintv bread, and the smallest mOrsel Of
pork, yellow with age. Two meals are
served out to us daily, consisting OF one
piece Of peculiarly constructed bread,
and M of indescribable salt, yellowish-
coloured pork, or meat that has had It's
nutriment entirely boiled out OF 1t IN the
making of soup for the garrison pre-
vious to its being spportioned out to the
prisoners. Occasionally a Nurture, des-
ignated by our prosecutors as SOUP
and containing an ample sufieiency OF
mdggots was doled out to us in tin pots
an indescribable ola podrida of soups Of
every kind, in its appearance irresistibly
reminding one of the sty and the trough.
Coffee and tea were luxuries seen
in the shed where we received u ra-
TONS"
The pieces OF bread and meat were
placed on a table. Some subordinate Of
the cook-house, at 9 am. and Bpm,
shouted for the prisoners, by number, to
IfaI inn The inmates Of the division
yelled for " fell in" by twos and threes,
marched to the e~ook-house, filed along
the table, Selling their r~atiOns, reached
the end of the table, faced to the right
about. and marched out, returning to
their dens, or munching their rations" in
the open air. A Northern farmer feeds his
hogs on better food, and with equal
courtesy. A Southern planter would
have scorned so to feed his negroes.
When and lghere did the Federal jalors
respect a Confederate prisoner, male or
female?
Luxuries forwarded by friends were
prohibited the prisoners at Fort Della
ware, not by way of punishment and
moral discipline and chsstisement but
for the profit of the suffers and officials.
Even in their inhumanities they had an
eye to ~pecuniary profit.
CAMPBELL's slaye-pen, at Baltimore,
administered by the infamous Colonel
FISH, who was afterwards sentenced to
the Albany ~Penitentiary for various
crimes, was another abode of Yankee
humanity. 1t was a relief to leave il for
a solitary cell at Fort McHenry, where
the Confederate soldier, loaded with balls
and chains, passed the weary time, no
windows admitting the light Of day, no
lamp allowed at night. The den of each
was cold and noisome the walls thick
of every kind and swarming with YER
min. Here, with a 42-pound bail and
chain on the left ANGLE, one Confederate
soldier, a prisoner Of war, remained for
three months and q half. Here, in this
hell upon earth, he was thirteen times
tossed in a blanket, in presence of the
Federal guards, each time falling heavily
on his head or sides. When he had
crawled away and fallen asleep, he was
awakened by fire applied to his feet,
supplied by the sentries, causing burns,
the scars Of which he will carry to his
grave. Often he was knocked down,
beaten and kicked.
At Forrest Hall, in Georgetown, under
the very nose OF LINCOLN and SEWARD,
& suspects were tortured by a stream of
water, with a force OF thirty pounds to
the inch square playing on the small Of
their backs and were afterward led out
TO execution, or to a lifelong coDfine-
ment in the Penitentiary.
No me knOlUS JUhdt has become Of these
prisoners. There 1Cere IN 1865 some fire
hundred and fifty "poltical prisoners "
IN the Dry TortugaS, where no writ Of
Hsbess Corpus could reach them. Who
they are, or what their offence, no one
knows. When will the secrets Of that
Bastille be disclosed a.? Will man ever
punish SEWARD, or will it be left to God
to do it? When CHARLOTTE CoRDAY
killed MARAT, she was executed for it,
and 'Fani dGPeuple' was lamented and
canonized.
But prisoners were shot, for crossing
the dead line at unreasonable.
Thirty-five thousand turbulent prisoners
are difficult to control. It is no wonder
WIRz wished he was dead. Among
them vas the ordinary proportion of
and blackguards, murderers, raw
ishers and thieves, for whom hanging
too good.
AtForrest Hall, in Georgetown, almost
within sight Of the White House, "four
immense windows, reaching from the
top almost to the bottom, bound with
iron, looked forth upon the street; but
none Of rs ever presumed to gaze from
them, FOR ORDERS WERE GIVEN TO
SHOOT DEA THE AUDACIoUs WRETCH
WHO sHOULD THUS DEFY THE LAWS.
b A spot-lsrge enough for the
promenade OF the guards, was reserved
for them and whatever poor wretch
dared to invade the neutral ground-for
such it was called by the residents,-he
shot like a dog, for his daring,-mur-
iered, eoolly and deliberately. Right
over the entrance to this room was a
place called the LODGE Here a corpo-
raj and three or four sentries were placed.
with the same humane orders to exc :
cute, relative to the shedding Of human
So testiies Lieutenant HAIR ]
DINGE. The same rURe Das enforced IN !
lther Northern Stare Jens. I
That reminds me-" said Colonel {
WOOD, "of a good story There was y
fellow, an officer in the Coincide :
States army, who received some I
money from a lady who was held in my l
'esideace for stubborn people. With !
he bribed the sentinel, who was In !
he yard beneath, to let him attempt an /
The sentinel agreed but l got
7ind Of the affair an hour before it took
lace, and walking up to the sentinel
aid, Now, you God damned rascal, Pve Il
OF you in my power and II you don't Il
that damned rebel, I'll have you p
ung] 50, tUhen Mr.. Rebel gets ont Of "
he 10indOIO, Mr.. Sentinel Jiases a1Uay at n
and do,7t he drops, kerfuDamered. a
'amn him, he died in the hospital, some Il
avs afterwards"
A 0erygood story, When will Colonel P
WILLIAM P. WooD, superintendent Of SC
old capitol and Carroll prisons, be tc
led by Military Commission, for mar- b
ar? "
When, indeed, has aay Northern Off
al been duly punished for any atrocity T? q
RS. NJ was tied to her chair and d,
,gged, by some Of SHERNIAN's thieves, fe
hen he robbed and burned his way CT
trough Georgia. Her clothes were I'll
up TO her waist, aud she was
with leather straps, because a d.
'gro had told the Captain who superln- or