The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1891-04-18
WAR CONTROVERSY.

New York. April s.-The sun SAYS;
sIf W. H. Holloway, Of Indianapolis,
private secretary to Governor Morton
Z du-ing the civil war, does as he says
he viii do, there win be fine eontro-
yersy.
aDzr John A. Wyeth, of this city,
wrote the article which appeared in the
4 Century for April This article was
about The treatment of Confederate
/ prisoners Of war at Camp Morton, near
/ indianapolis. from November 1868, to
February. 1865. and set forth Is the
personal experience of the writer tale
Of horror equal in some respects to
the stories of Libbey prison or Ander-
sonville. Il charged that the Confed-
crate prisoners were almost starved; /;
ate rats and dogs; were unprotected
from the bite of terrible winter, and
suffered all sorts OF indignities. Mr..
Holloway says he visited Camp Nor
ton nearly every day, and that he pro
poses to prove that DR.. Wyeth does
not state facts.
"Dr. Wyeth sand last night: Il have
read Mr.. Holloway's statement, and |
am anxious that he shall try to dis
prove what have written. | am In
great measure prepared for him with
ineontrovertible documents, and with
in a few weeks | shall be still better
prepared. | have waited twenty
eight years before publishing this
story, as | wished all the prejudice
which the feelings OF recent wrongs
engendercd to die out, and | think
that wrote with iirmness; with
great moderation even. The editors
Of the Century Magazine investigated
my figures before they published the
article. They found that | was abso-
lutely right; that had been more
moderate than the facts would have
justified. | confined myself to my
personal experience; To the thugs
,, that came under my own eyes.
, heard of many things from comrades
which were undoubtedly true, and
which were worse than the things
published, but which would not us,
. because | hadn't seen them.
ave were men from Alabama
!, Louisiana and other warm States
: used to sunny climate. We wer'
not sheltered against the winter; w
had no medical attention for sickness
Then there were horrors of starvation
, incredible. For years and years ther'
|, has been great uproar about Llbb.
prison and Andersonville, and II ]
true that the Union prisoners wcr
i not treated as they should have been
. But we had the excuse that we ha'
:, only food aud clothing and medicin
:, enough for our own men. For Cam
y Morton, no such excuse could b
offered. The Federal Governmen
! never gave me a bit Of clothing In a
, the time was there, and It gave littl
- q to any of the others.
- "erherc were plenty of doctors, an
= there was plenty of medicine In Ind
- annapolis; yet the sick were allowed
~ ~ die of triiling ailments. And thos
- - prisoners were starved within sight
" fields Of grain.
=, "These facts were published In pal
= in a Georgia magazine by the Rev. :
:, q. Wilson, of st. Louis, before he die'
: | can get ample information OF m
= = story from comrades imprisoned wit
y me, and now living IN various parts {
' the South. Senator Pasco, OF Florid
was there at the time, and will beI
me out In what have said. The of
cial figures show tho death rate
he have been LOO or 1900 In ten thou
A. and, and that speaks for ITSELF"