Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-06-21

hficadr, 49, .aeic, one OF the StOnownll
S Hs.seIs py telling whore no had ohfainea =
,,,a,'s Mh,skey, instead Of the usual oontsne.
~ si'eh a IN tne Ruard.house. had his thnwhs
I ~ toYether behind his hack and the ynns
Shsswn w across n beam overhead mill
s s Whoie weight rested upon them. caus.
" s,k s'l eciating agony. Still refusing To
,yood ne Was gagged with a piece of
oate, S t1 struck in the face with an
front ,ase1 which knocked ont his
blood. ''oiou his lace with
THE NEGRO GUARD, AGAIN.
Inc negro guard would almost witbort
a. Ssning, hre among the prisoners. and
, ms ~ iast illuminated in the murder of a
s 49,, teeble Old man named Potts, a 7pri-
~ 1t one OF the most harmless creatures
va the pen. He was hailed by one OF tba
uAr9 while approaching his ward, or
w.. 70 stop, and shot dead while stand
IN August the surgeons consolidated re-
pOlt announced eighteen hundred and
seventy scorbutic cases among q zoo nr;.
soners-the result Of the restriction to a
bread and salt-meat diet.
~. Vne OF the men who died to-day told
us MS prother, with almost his last breath.
that ne died Of starvation
september 2lst deaths Yesterday. 80
ana this with pure air. healthy location.
sood water, no epidemic. The men are
oolhg 1eltberately murdered bv the sur
geon Or. Sanger.
4. OF fourteen men IN DIR. Martins Soc
ION ion twelve are dead of seventeen in DIR.
oraham's section fourteen have died and
Two more are certain to die for want Of
IOod and medicines. Both DIR. Martin and
III. draham Confederate surgeons) have
refused to send any more patients from
,, ward to the hospital, as death is al
most certain TO superyene."
As l went over TO the hospital this
morning quite early there were eighteen
9ead bodies lying naked on the bare earth.
Eieven more were added 70 the list by
halt-past IL O'clock"
In October the weather grew bitterly
cold, and the men, especially the thousands
VINO were lying on the ground in open
tents, began TO suffer severely, being most
~ quite destitute of necessary clothing"
AZ length an order came from Washing
ton that list of prisoners should be made
out Tor exchange, consisting of those
only who, by reason of age, sickness,
sixty days"
Some 1900 were chosen as unfit for
duty for sixty days" being one sixth of
the whole; and on the morning of Octo-
Der -, 1854 these were ordered to- assem-
bic for parole.
NARROWING SPECTACLE.
Says Mr.. Kelley: II speak in all rever-
ence when / say that l do not believe that
such spectacle was ever before seen on
earth since the sick and the manned and the
afflicted of every sort crowded for help
and healing around the SavIour's feet.
AS soon as the announcement
was made that the parole-lists were ready
the poor wretches began TO crawl from
their cots end turned their faces toward
the door. On they came q 500 of them)
q CHASTITY tide, with skeleton bodies and
lustreless eyes, and brains bereft of all but
one thought-freedom and home. On
they came, some on clutches, some on
their cots, others borne in the arms of
their comrades: others still creeping on
hands and knees, pale, gaunt. emaciated;
some with the seal OF death already
stamped on their wasted cheeks and flesh
less limbs; vet fearing less death than the
agony of dying amid enemies, where no
hand should give them reassuring grasp as
they tottered forth into the dark valley,
aud their bones would lie in unhonored
graves amid aliens and fOemen. Such @
set of haggard. miserable, helpless. hope
less wretehes / never saw, and yet have
seen more than one consignment of Fede-
raj prisoners on their way home. Several
died between their parole and the day OF
departure"
SEVEN DEAD on THE TRAIN.
1--WE arrived in Baltimore with seven
dead men on the train" and left in Balti-
more a number whose condition was such
that their further progress would have
been certain DEATH one, a gray-haired old
man who there died.
They had to be landed at Point Lookout
to await further oonsignments of prisoners
for exchange. And here, "a plank was
stretched from the side of the ship TO the
dock, and down this 'shoot" the poor,
helpless, manned creatures were slid like
coal into a vault"
They were turned into their former pen,
where they found "a scanty supply of
tents, and after some days a scanty supply
of straw. The water was scant the rations
scant,n and all this for men Just taken out
of the hospital, condemned thus TO sleep
on the bare ground with insufficient food
and clothing.
Here they remained until the number
for exchange sent from various points
amounted to 5000 when they were all re-
embarked in three ships and sent South,
first having AL their blankets and every
extra coat or pair of pants taken from
them"
In Hampton Roads they were detained
ten days.
- Every OQY,' continues ME hbnbl, VIC
saw cofins going over the sides of the
other sbips. On the Atlantic alone were
forty deaths during our stay in the har-
bora stay obviously unnecessary and
therefore shamefully cruel, since 1t COM
nalled the confinement of hundreds of
sick men in the filthy and unventilated
holds of the vessels, without proper food,
medicine, or attendance; Captain Grey,
of the Atlantic, protested loudly against
its inhumanity. IL
were landed amid the enthusiastic well
come of the populHce, and here found the
Richmond ambulance corps awaiting
them" that excellent institution which
rendered service alike to the suffering of
both armies"
A FULL CoRRoBoRATIoN.
II will be noted that IN this account IS
.corroboration of all that Is charged by DIR.
Wveth i'm his mention of the treatment of
prisoners at Camp Morton-l.
e. the criminal neglect OF the SICK; their
starvation where every species or food
was abundant until they were reduced 10
devouring rats and refuse; the general
malicious ill-treatment of prisoners, and
the shooting down without cause OF lnno-
cent men. Major Kelley is too well known
AZ the North, as well as the South, to adj
NIT Of a doubt being cast upon his state
ments. He has also much to say concern
ing the kindness shown the Confederate
prisoners by individuals at the North, ana
even by Federal officers. One OF the iet-
fer was threatened with oourt-martial for
This cause. when he replied that in that
case he would have startling story TO
make public of the inhuman treatment OF
the Confederate prisoners. Mr.. Kelley
adds, He was not moiested'"
--''- S. A. w.
The Blackbird Pie.
NV To THE KTyQ.