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as a spy, and that if was tried l woul'
no doubt be hung. This court-martia
| adjourned without bringing me to trial
| as did the one at Chattanooga From
| there L was sent to Mobile, where anothe
| court-martial was in session.
CRUELTIEs BY REBELS.
after keeping ME about eight days a
| this place, / was next sent 10 Tuscaloosa
| Ala. From this city was taken, in com
rany with all the other prisoners at this
| post. To Montgomery, Ala. The first day
out was taken sick with pneumonia and
tysheia fever, but the rebel surgeons re-
fused me any medicine, and even a bed,
and | was left for II days lying upon the
deck of the boat, with nothing to eat but
cornbread and beef, which latter the
rebels said had been packed five years. re-
| AT Tuscaloosa they shot Federal soi-
dier for looking out of window, and
wounded another in the face for the same
offense. At Montgomery they refused to
let me go TO a hospital, although in an
utterly helpless condition. Here they
shot Federal Lieutenant under the fol-
| lowing circumstances: He had been al
| lowed to go out for milk, accompanied by
a guard. and he was waiting for a woman
| to hand the milk out through window,
when the guard gave the order to Come
on, Wait moment, till | get my milk,
said the Lieutenant. The guard made no
reply, but instantly shot him in the breast
with shotgun, killing him forthwith.
From Montgomery | was taken to
Macon, Ga, in company with 1 200 others.
Here we were allowed seven pounds of
cornmeal and two and half pounds of
bacon OF bad quality, for seven days. We
were allowed two surgeons and but very
little medicine. Our men Jared very
badly here, being punished severely for
the slightest offenses. One man, named
Cora, was kept tied up for three days by
the wrists to a tree, so that his toes Just
touched the ground, because he helped
Kill yearling calf that got into the camp.
tloridian and two kentuckians, polit-
zeal prisoners, were confined in Jail at
Macon on quarter rationS for % days.
The only Offense they had committed was
TO attempt TO escape from the prison lot.
Our men were pegged down on the
ground Tor any miSdemeanOr. This was
done by stretching out the limbs and
driving down a forked stick over them,
and the operation was completed by driv-
ing one down over the neck. 1t would be
impossible to tell all the hardships to
which we were subjected, but / have en-
deavoTed to portray few of them. They
may tie summed up thus:
We were confined in bad quarters, and
many were without any quarters. Our
dead were left unburied for days together.
and some entirely scat least to our
knowledge. We were denied medical at
tendance. Our chapIainS were forbidden
to preach to US or TO praying with us (by
order of Mai. Rylander). Our men and
officers were shot without cause. An in
sane Federal was shot at Macon, Ga, for
no oftense. We were compelled to bury
our dead in the river banks where their
bodies were liable to be washed out We
were beaten with clubs on board the
steamer Ell route for Montgomery, Ala.
We were fed on foul and unwholesome
diet, and frequently left without any ra-
lions for two or three days at time. Our
exchange was delayed as long as possible,
and We were confined in camps sur
rounded by swamps, as the rebels said,
that we all might die. / find it impOs-
sible to epumerate all the hardships put
upon us, but have enumerated such as
we're the most Observation-Disclosures Pike,
%. a, 4th Ohio Cav"
TERRIBLE TRIP.
While we were proceeding along through
he mountains we came to a narrow