The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-08-24

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ten the sick, were abandoned by those
who carried them, aud would be left
near tho gateway, in tho intense
heat, where no dir could reach them,
and thus uncarod for, would die.
This arose not so much from the
want of feeling OF comrades as from
their inability to actually care for
them. Those who bore stretchers Of
ton fell fainting. and died in that
throng Of waiting misery.
One day in July twenty or more
men died in less than four hours
among the crowd Of living, dead, and
dying around the prison gate.
The numbers who went to tho
hospital outside corrospondod with
the numbers who died in this throng
daily. A police forco of tho prison
dictated, with clubs, who were to
pass first through the gate. The
dead took the preference, followed
by the sick on strotchers. Few of
this throng got medicines. "A great
mass of the sick, rather than suffer
the jauning aud crowding, aud ra
Their than witness these depressing
scenes Of horror, remained, without
trying to obtain what they camo
for since, to pass through this truly
horrible ordeal, to go through, or
stand among this crowd Of dead,
sick, and dying, was worse than the
suffering it was intended to alleviate.
| consider myself rather q tough
specimen ola prisoner, bnt, after
waiting, without success, for four
successive hours, yes, for successive
mornings, to got out my comrade
for medicine, 1 became confident, if
| persisted, 1 should be carried
out with my toes tied together"
(Which, in prison language, meant
dead.)
Imagine two or three thousand
men struggling, suffering, crowding
together, to get through tho gato,-
all forms of death, disease, and sick
ness crowded and jammed together.
Here the dead were crowded and
jostled against the sick, aud the
sick, in their turn, jostling against
and overturning the dead and dying
n specticle horrible to behold. espec..
tally among n set of men, who pro-
fessad to be intelligent.
But it appeared all or nearly all
mon, who were confined in this
hell-ho!e OF a stockado for some
time, lost their manhood, aud forgot
the training received at homo.
From first to last, the system OF
dispensing medicines was produc-
tive at more suffering THAI it re-
leived. At such gatherings the
stencil arising from the dead and
dying was dreadful enough to make
we'll men sick /; while the sight of
men sick and dying, under the cir-
cumstances described, was sufficient
to depress the strongest heart
and mind with terror. The man
piuched, ADMINISTRATION, dirt ciot,
ted couutenance Of the poor suffer-
ers. the disgusting spectacle OF
dead men with unclosed eyes and
dropping jaws, tho eyes and face
swarming with varmin, combined to
make the soene one of the most
intense horrors ever gazed upon by
mortal eyes.
One Of my Regiment, q private OF
company G, was carried for two suc-
,essive mornings to this gathering
Of human woe, and ON the third
morning he died, lying in the hot
'un, without an effort being made
~ the surgeons and attendants to
,btain shelter for him.
Hundreds died in this uncared- for
manner, which was Of too frequent
occurrence to be notice d or noted, it
lad become az every day occurrence,
md men did not talk about it as
hey did at FIRST. One would na-
urally suppose that speotacles of
his kind would excite in hardened
hearts emotions Of pity and remorse;
,ut the southern chivalry gazed up-
IN these scenes daily, unmoved, Of
on remarking,"Go enough for the
lamned yauks.'
Neither were the dead and dying
from their abuse aud foul
'pethets. / have seen dying man
'udely tumbled from the stretcher
IN which he lay, without the slight-
'st heed being given to bis pleading