The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-02

Robert Riley. Company D. May le. Henry Aioritton, Company B, May 7 Joshua Browden. Company c. May G. Davis McKibbon. Company F. June Il B. F. Harrow. Company H. June F. Benager Peacock, Company D. May A B. F. Manseil, Company c, May IA.
 John Brandon, Company H. May {.
 Ham Infinfer, Company D, April 2.
 Henry Glisson. Company D, May 3.
 Ed Bates, Company c, April q.
 w. B. Bracken, Company I, May 27.
 s. M. Barber. Company C. May 2.
 E. Framing. Company c. May l2.
 Harvey Meader, Company F, May 3.
 J. M. McCaui, Company G, May Il. G. W. Spears, Company B, May is.
 T. D. Fulton. Company c, May 10.
 l. K Jones. Company H, May 3.
 J. J. Farmer, Company -. July 3.
 R. w. Clifton. Company G, June 1S.
 John K. Holt, Company I, May A.
 T. T. Demmins, Company l. May 10.
 -. Company D. April 30. W. L. Peacock, Company D, June 9.
 q. S. Marquis, Company C, May 10. J. W. Andrews, Company B, June Il.
 May G.
 The Colonel of the First Alabama Regi- msnt was I. G. W. steedman."
 The Federal authorities. at least at Camp Butler, where the writer was in prison. did all that medical skill hospital stores and comfortable quarters could do to arrest the appalling death rate of tn Confederate prison, but in vain. While at Island No. 10, this writer visited sicS friends in two of our hospitals, one on steamer anchored opposite the island in the river, the other in church one or two miles in rear of our lines. In the former the men wee lying on the floor across the cabin, head to wall and feet to feet. with a space of twelve or eish- teen inches between each. They all had pneumonia and the space between eacl was literally covered with phlegm expec- torated py the patients. The same was the case in the aisle, which was about three feet wide. The coughing. wheezing and groans were distressing. It was our opinion that blue mass alone constituted the whole of our hospital stores The sit uatlon at the church was the same, ex- cept that the patients had hunks.
 The sickness and mortality at Island 10 are not to be wondered at, when all the circumstances are considered. Our men were mostly from extreme South Ala bama, two-thirds of whom, fresh from home and wholly unused to hardships. had been suddenly thrown into a cold and rigorous climate at a season of the year most inviting to pneumonia. and day and night had been exposed continuously and were practically without hospital stores. The old soldiers of the regiment of 1881 lost very few of their number. Colonel Steedman, one of the ablest off, cers of the leland, was stricken with pneumonia in both lungs a week before the surrender. and was in the hospital at the time of that event. When the sur l-.. L~ Sla. litter by four of his regiment, who in- tended to carry him beyond the enemy's line, sometimes wading water knee-deep. He begged them to leave him and make their own escape which they emphaticauy refused to do. and all were captured to- gether.
 Colonel Steedman was sent first to Gratiot Street prison in St. Louis, Mo. in which city were many Southern sym pathizers; among these was MT. James Harrison, whose daughters were also in sympathy with the South. one of whom Dora) after the war closed. became the wife of the Colonel in the Fall of 1865. From St. Louis. as soon as he was con. valescent. Colonel Steedman was trans ferred to Johnsons Island prison in Lake Erie.
 After the surrender to General PavrA 
 day in conversation with the Yankees Men and officers repeiled as an insult the least insinuation that the war, pSofessed- ly for the Union. involved the emancipa- tion of slaves, declaring they would lay down their arms at once if they had the rsmotest apprehension that such was the case. Though sincere at the time, they did not make good this declaration upon the issuance of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation nine months later. That night we had Gas usual at Island 10) a torrential flood.
 The next day we went by steamer to New Madrid, built fires of logs on the river bank, the Federals gave us full rations and plank to sleep on. The next morning our officers left on steamer for Johnson's Island. and late in the even- ing the men boarded a large transport (used for carrying horses. cattle, etc ) for Cairo which place we reached at day. light next morning. About 10 a. m. we were marched to the railroad depot. and