The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-31

that the recollection or Them IA slowly but too surr.
fading away nom the thoughts OF their counfrymen
The soldiers OF the Union armies who, prisoners
OF war. died IN rebel hands deserve the highest
place IN all our hearts as they have indeed the sad
may not be Inappropriate 10 spend few moments
upon this day OF comhemoration or the absent dead
IN recalling TO our minds in what manner and by
what means these comrades persisted.
Andersonville was taken as a sample Of all South
ern Prisons and, after speaking OF the horrors In.
nlcted upon the Union soldiers there, the General
sald:--If In telling this sad and mournfui story |
shall recount that which shocks the mind and har-
rows the soul; II narrae facts Improbable and al
most impossible # MAKE you statement that
VIII quite freeze your blood and cause you TO turn
away IN shuddering disgust AT the narration, the
iaui u not mine. IL viii be only the truth passed
into history.
Adverlng to the location OF Andersonve, the
swamp Dy Whlch IL was surrounded ''unluhaDltaDle
except for the fostering vermin and maggots," ne
passed on to the food furnished TO prisoners; tn
dehciencies that existed in every department OF the
prson-the same wagon, Tor instance, bringing
the food that took away the dead.n and the result
OF this treatment The "dead line'' was mentioned,
the "bood houudsn not forgotten when the General
concluded as follows.-Your lmagnations may have
pictured but your Judgments can have hardly con-
firmed iheresults Ofsuc confinement such food such
treatment and such cruees The whole number OF
prisoners confined IN that prison pen was 1851;
the number OF graves was 1905, or more than one
Ill every three; and this without esmat-
ing the number OF whose deceasc there IS
No battle since the invention gunpowder has ever
shown upon one side thirteen thousand deaths.
such, my comrades was the treatment OF our sol.
dlers In prisons during the rebellion. The numpcr
OF all VINO died as prisoners OF war, such deaths
l nave shown, so fas as can be nscettained, is
36,40l, although the graves OF 1886 only
are known. leaving 20,5s5 unknown dead, at whose
graves neither friend, widow nor child may weep |
40 not charge these accumulated horrors, OF which
repeat again and again there IS the fullest evidence.
upon the people OF the South as mass. do put
we responsibility thereof npon their leaders, for 1t
happened under their very eve. and the testimony
shows lrequent reports to them OF this terrible
ditlon Of things
Trouble Between tho White and Colored
Soldiers Mt 6lount Anaurn--A Serious Riot
Prevented.
BOSTON, May 30 1871.
The sOlemnites OF the decoration Of the soldiers
graves at the Mount Auburn Cemetery were at
tended by most dsgracelul scene this afternoon.
White and colored soldiers participated alike in
honoring the memory or tho dead heroes, and on
their return from the memorial services there
was ARRAY between them, which came
near resulting IN riot which might have been
attended with serious consequences. 1t seems that
some Of the white soldiers had engaged a number
OF horse cars to convey them from the cemetery
into the city. and that some OF the negroes, know
Ing the had been specially chartered took seats
In them when they came out OF the city. Their
white brethren In arms could not 'see this, and In
inviting them to leave insinuated In forclbe Ian
guage that they were the offspring OF the canine
Species and that unless they vamOsed the rancho
once their dark carcases would be penetrated by q
streak OF daylight. The fifteenth amendments felt
cause and immediately undertook to prove
the story OF the war; that 1.-THE coiored troops
fought bravely." They crt the car ana formed in
line of BATTLE and with fixed bayonets about to
charge upon their aggressOrs. when reinforcemenls
arrived from the cemetery and the other cars In
sufficient numbers to thwart their determination to
slaughter the whites Matters looked serious FOR a
few moments, and but for the OverpOwchng nun.
Der OF white soldiers there would have undoubtedly
been serious ARRAY. The white soldiers, it IL
claimed, were in tue wrong by unnecessarily insult
Ing and aggrav ating the c0lored troops.