Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-02-03

of Prisons, down to Andersonyille to
investigate and make whitewashing
report. Col. Chandler turned out 10
be an officer who was humane man
and an honorable soldier. Like De
Nevers in "The Huguenots," he
would fight an open enemy, but he
| would not favor massacre of the un
armed. He made report which con.
firms the charges preferred by Mr..
Blaine and Mr.. Garfield concerning
the location and condition of the
prison pen, and in addition to this the
following supplemental report:
Andersonville, Aug 3, l364-Coone Nv
duty requires me respectfully to recommend
change i'll the officer in command Of the
post, Brighten. J. H. Winder, and the substi.
tuition in his place of some one who unites
both energy and good judgment with some
feeling OF humanity and consideration for the
welfare and comfort $50 far as is consistent
with their sate-keeping) of the vast number of
untortunates placed under his control some
one who, at least, will not advocate deliberate
ly and III cold blood the propriety of leaving
them in their present condition until their num-
ent arrangement sufficient for their accommo-
dation who will not consider it a matter of
self-laudation and Boosting that he has never
been inside of the stockade, place the hor-
rors of which it is impossible to describe, and
which is disgrace to civilization, the condi~
ton of which he might, by the exercise of a
little energy and judgment, even with the
limited means at his command, have consid-
erably improved. d. T. CHANDLER,
Observation-Disclosures and Inspector General
So anxious was Col. Chandler that
the brute Winder should be removed
that he went and delivered the report
in person to the Confederate Sscreta-
ry of War. The Observation-Disclosures.
General had Endorsed it with the
words "The condition of the prison
at Andersonville is a reproach to us
as nation" The Assistant Secreta.
ry of War wrote below this indorse.
ment "These reports show condi-
ton of things at Andersonville which
calls very loudly tor the interposition
of the Department, in order that a
change be made" The Department
did interpose. The inhuman butcher,
of whom the Richmond Examiner
said when he left that city to 60 to
Andersonvile "God have mercy
upon those to whom old Winder has
been SENT" was Indignantly removed
by the Secretary of War. Winder
took his removal to Jefferson Davis,
and he, with full knowledge of all
his damnable atrocities, not from ru-
NOR but from repeated official reports,
wrote upon the back of it, "This is
entirely unnecessary and uncaled
for" Immediately added to his power
and opportunities for barbarity by
promoting him to his office of Com
missary-General of all the prisons
and prisoners in the Southern Con-
federacy. AS Mr.. Garfield said in
his speech "Winder appears to have
retained the confidence and approval
of Davis to the end, and continued on
duty until the mercitul providence
of God struck him dead in his tent"
We need not so further in the mat.
ter of tracing the relations of Davis to
the awful atrocities at Andersonville.
The Infamous Winder was the imme-
date butcher, but he was only the
tool and agent Of his master, Jeffer-
son Davis The proofs, from Con-
federate sources, show that he was
not only cognizant of these atrocities.
but that he approved of them ana re
warded the old "hellion' for commit
ting them by promotion to the charge
of every prison in the South. In
view of the evidence which has been
presented against him, the Confeder-
ate Brigadier-General in the House,
the Northern doughfaces in the
House, the confederates in the
whole South and Copperheads of the
North, might as well under
stand now as at any other time that
the Union people of the North will
never forget the real butcher of An
Jacksonville. Ifjustice had not been
cheated of her due, he would have
expiated his crimes on the gallows
long ago Chicago Tribune.