The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-16

/ men were IN so reduced condition that,
| on more than one trip up on the short
! passage of ten miles from the transports TO the
city, as many az as ! hve died The clothing OF the
NTH. The mortality on the PASSAGE from, Marv
land was was very very great, os wen as that on the pas
sage from the prisons 70 the port from yhioh
they started. I cannot state the exaci number
@ Du' t tnnh DIX "A @ nesrd that $500 were started and
the ographs appended to RepoTt No ~ Of
the committee Of the Federal Congress-. and do
not hesitate TO declare that several of onr nen
were worse cases Of emaciation ana siclr ness
than IAN any represented in these photography
by that of Andrew Johnston, also merchant
OF Richmond, and member OF the Ambulance
'Thus IL appears that the sick and wounded
Federal prisoners at Annapolis, whose condi-
tion has been made subject of outcry and of
widespread complaint by the Northern Con-
gress. were not i'm worse state than were the
Confederate prisoners returned from Northern
hospitals and prisons, OF which the humanity
and superior management are made subjects Of
special boastlng by the United States Sanitary
Commission"
After some commentator of the treatment
of sick Union prisoners in their hospitals, the
Confederate Committee proceeds
"Ths humane and oonsiderate usage was not
adopted in the United states hospital on John
sons Island, where Confederate sick and
Holman thus testities:-'Tne Federal aut5ori.
ties did not furnish TO the sick prisoners the
nutriment and other articles which were pre-
scribed by their own surgeons. All they would
do was to permit the prisoners tu buy the nu-
triment or stimulants needed and if they had
no money. they could not get them. know
this, for was in the hospital sick myself and
mad 10 buy, myself, such articles as eggs, milk,
hour chickens, and butter, after their doctors
had prescribed them. And | know this was
generally the case, for we had TO get up a fund
among ourselves for this purpose, to aid those
who were not well supplied with money This
statement is confirmed by the testimony of
Acting Assistant Surgeon John j. Miller who
was az Johnson's Island for more than eight
months. When IL is remembered that such arti-
cles as eggs, milk, and butter were very scarce
and high-priced in Richmond, and plentiful
and cheap at the North, the contrast thus pre-
sented may well put to shame the Sanitary
Commission and dissipate the selfcompla-
cency with wh .ch they have boasted of the
superior humanity in the Northern prisons and
hospitals"
After some further defensive testimony and
logic, the Committee proceeds
Your Committee gladly acknowledge that In
many cases our prisoners experienced kind and
assured that in nearly all the prison stations Of
the North-at Point Lookout Fort McHenry
Fort Delaware, Johnsop's Island. Elmlra'
ton, the Ohio Penitentiary, and the prisons OF
st. Louis, Missouri-our men have suffered
1rom insufficient food, and have been subjected
to ignominious, cruel, and barbarous prac-
uces, of which there is no parallel in any
thing that has occurred in the South. The wit
nesses who were at Point Lookout Fort Della
ware, Camp Morton, and Camp Douglas testify
thaI Iney nave olten seen our men picking up
the scraps and refuse thrown out from the
kitchens, with which to appease their hunger
DIR. Herrington proves that at Fort Delaware
unwholeSOme bread and water produced diar-
rbOa in mum berless cases among our prisoners
and that their sufferngs were greatly aggra-
waited by the regulation of the cannp which for.
Dade more than twenty men at time at night
TO go 10 the sinks. lhave seen as many as five
hundred men in a row waiting their turn. The
consequence was that they were obliged to use
the places where they were. This produced
great want of cleanliness, and aggravated the
disease Our men were compelled to labor in
unloading Federal vessels and in putting up
buildings for Federal officers, and. If they re-
fused, were driven to the work with clubs
"Tbe treatment of Brigadier- General j. II.
Morgan and his officers was brutal and igno
miniOus in the extreme. 1t will be found stated
in the depostions of Captain NJ. d. Logan,
Lieutenant W. p. Crow, Lieutenant James r.
McCreary, and Captain B. A Tracey, that they
were put in the OHIO Penitentiary and COM
PEELED to submit TO the treatment of feions
Their boards were shaved, and their hair was
cut close TO the head. They were confined in
convicts, cells, and forbidden to speak to each
other. For attempting to escape, and for other
ofienses OF very light character. they were
subjected TO the horrible punishment of the
dungeon. In mid winter, with the atmosphere
many degrees below zero, without blanket or
overcoat, they were confined in cell, without
fire or light, with a foetid and poisonous air to
breathe, and here they were kept until
life was nearly extinct. Their condition on
coming out was so deplorable as to draw tears
"The blood was oozing from their hands and
faces. The treatment in the ST. Louis prisons
Sebring testlfies-'Two of us, A. Q. Grimes and
myself, were carried out into the open air in
Lne prison yaru on J0o Z0Jl oil december, 1868,
and hand cuffed to post. Here we were kept
all night in sleet, snow. and cold. We were re-
neVed in the day time, but again brought to
the post and handcuffed to 1t in the evening
and thus we were kept all night until the Sc
cond of January, 1864. was badly FROST bitten
and my health was much impaired. This cruel
tnfiiction was done by order of Captain Byrnes
Commander of Prisons in ST. Louis. He was
baTbarous and Insulting to the last degree
but even q greater inhumanity than any we
have mentioned was perpetrated upon our pri-
soners at Camp Douglas and Camp Chase. II is
proved by the testimony OF Thomas p Hollo-
way, John p. Fennell, II. II. Barlow, II. @. Bar
ton, Q. ID. Bracken, and ], s. Barlow, that our
prisoners in large numbers were put into CON
demned camps, where small -pox was prevail
ing, and speedily contracted this loathsome
disease, and that as many as forty new cases
OFTEN appeared daily among them. Even the
Federal officers who guarded them to the camp
protested against this unnatural atrocitY--yet
1t was done The men who contracted the dis
ease were removed to a hospital mile OF, but
the plague was already introduced and con-
tinued TO prevail. For period of more than
twelve months the disease was constantly in
the camp, yet our prisoners during all this time
were continually brought TO it, and subjected
TO certain infection. Neither do we find evil
dences ofamendmento on the part of our enemies,
Notwithstanding the boasts of the Sanitary
commission AT Nashville prisoners recently
captured nom General Hoods army, even when
SICK and wounded, have been cruely deprived of
all nourlshment suited to their conaitlon; and
other prisoners from the same army have been
carried into The infected Camps Douglas and
Chase. Many OF the soldiers OF General Hoods
army were frostbitten by being kept day and
night In an exposed condition before they were
put INTO Camp Douglas. Their sufferings are
truthfully depicted in the evidence at Alton
ana camp morton, the same inhuman practice
OF putting our prisoners into camps infected by
smallpox prevailed. 1t was equivalent to MUIR
uerlng many of them by the torture of a con-
taglous disease. The insufficient rations at