The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-08-21

ness that none such IVES ever mace 9y lne
Latter ate ,, even when the very sick and despe-
ratejv wounded were alone requested. F1I,
on two ooca sions at least, such were speclany
asked for, and particular request was mse s.
for those who were 30 desperately slck anns
it would be doubtful whether they Woulu
survive a removal few miles down James
river. Acc ordingly, the hospitals were
searched for the worst cases, and after tney
were delivered they were taken to Anna
polls, and there photographed as specimen
prisoners. The photographs at Annapolis
we're terrible indeed; but the misery they
portraved was surpassed at Savannah.
OF $500 poor Confederates started from
the northern prisons $500 died on the
route
Judge Guild next, in behalf OF the Con-
Tolerate Government, offered to purchase,
with gold, of the United States Government,
medicines. to be used exclusively by
Federal prisoners and furthermore n ne
agreed that if it were insisted on, the meul,
cines might be brought over oy Feoeral
surgeons, and be By them dispensed 10 the
sick. "To this ofer," says ne, 1receeoeo
no reply"
General John E. Milford says the Judge
was cognizant of the truth Of most OF the
facts related. He found that gentleman,
who acted as the assistant agent of exchange
on the part of the United States, an homo
rable and truthful gentleman" Whlle ne
discharged his duty faithfully to his 20.
yernment, he was kind" "eyen tender"
to Confederates.
About the last of March, 1864, Judge
Ould had several conferences with General
Butler at Fortress Monroe, and reached
what they both thought tolerably salts
factory basis He adds:
aThe day that left there General Grant
arrived. General Butler says he commu-
nicated to him the state of the negotiations,
and most emphatic verbal directions were
received from the General not
| to take any step by which another able
bodied man should be exchanged until fur
Their orders from him and that on April
| 80, 1864, he received telegram from Ten
eral Grant to receive all the SICK ana
wounded the Confederate authorities may
send you, but send no more in exchange.
Unless my recollection fails me, General
| Butler also, in an address to his constttu-
ents. substantially declared that he was di-
rected, in his management of the question
of exchange with the Confederate authori-
ties, to put the matter Extensively, J0r the
PURPOSE of preventing an exchange"
This ends the history. Judge Ould was
summoned to Washington as witness for the
defence in the trial of Wirz, which, having
taken wide range, he was in hopes he
would be able to bring out these facts in
his testimony but he was never brought to
the witness stand. Chapman, the infa-
nous Judge-Advocate in that bloody bit Of
history, demanded the Judges subpoena :;
but that being his protection at time
when he was not free from danger of arrest,
| he refused to surrender it. The J. A. en-
dorsed on it: THE within subpoena is
hereby revoked-the person named is dis
charged from further attendance Signed
y. P. Chapman, Colonel, &c. Judge Guild
retains this paper as evidence of the first
case he has ever known in which witness
| summoned for the defence ocaS dismissed 6y
| the prosecution
He communicated the facts of the history
he has given to several members of Con-
| gress, who endeavored to get an inquiry
| into the treatment of southern prisoners at
the North as we'll as northern prisoners at
the South, resolution on the latter subject
| then pending before committee. But it
is we'll known the Radical Congress stifed
every effort with that view.