The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-16


says Is False-Negroes said TO Have
Heen Deliberately Hair Drowned
One whipped In Denance Of the Law.
Copyright. 1902. BY he b fillmore American.
CHAPTER
Col. George ST beger Grenfell made note
OF the tortures 10 Dunn. and in n comnuni-
cation to friend of his residing in Rich
mond, Va, gave truthful and graphic de-
scripton of the inhuman punishment which
was being inflicted upon both soldiers and
prisoners His friend, deeming that the
country should Ice informed, sent the article
10 a New York newspaper for publication,
A. q the month Of November il appeared
u. print
By chance one of the officers attached
80 the garrison had been sent North in
charge of four prisoners from SouthC arolina
and IN overlooking the daily paper his eye
came in contact with the article. TIE
officer returned To the fort before the mails
had been received az the post. bearing
with him the paper containing the article,
which he presented to Brig Gen Is II
Hill, commanding.
That il was startling news to them proved
itself in the rigid search that was made
of the effects of the prisoners. Suspicion
centred itself upon Col Grenfell as its author
and his quarters and his papers We're care
fully searched, when in a diary kept 10y
him was found Il copy of the article sought
after.
For the heuou~ offence Of publishing to
the world the brutal tyranny existing upon
the island he was removed from his quarters
and placed within a dungeon in solitary CON
lao, a ,,,I
ink. reading matter Of every description and
all intercourse and communication with
every one at the fort.
Small openings which had been left in
the CONSTRUCTION of the fort for ventilation
were tightly boarded up and closed by
orders from the commandment. His quarters
were visited frequently during the day by
'1c officer of the guard, who caused the
,rson of the Colonel to he carefully
,rched to prevent the secrctng Of papers.
ruth had awakened them and startled
tn. u from their seeming security, when,
finding that the cruel,ies practiccd had been
exposed To the country, they became
very careful that it should not again happen.
Col. Grenfel from this time on, became
the object Of all their attention. he being
kept closely confined and guarded from the
18th of November, 1865. until September.
1857, in the miserable cell allotted to him
suffering intensely from heart and other
ailments arising from his ill-ventilated
quarters
CRuEtTIEs BEGIN AGAIN.
Pooling sacurs NOW tba, tho oh;.c, 90
their soIici,ud. had heer placad hevo,d n.
nowcr IN do moro harm a. tbev sunno.ad
Tho crueI,i.s r,o,ic,od !, hi. ,h,.hod ar,icia
yore ag ,i, en,c,ad
privo,o Co.nor ~ com,ary n q r,,ro
hoy uas or,,aII, r,aI,roa,od III h,,,,,. t,,;,,,,
co,arad u;,l h,,,i..,. r.,,,i,.od n, ,h, h,,,d.
~ q no,.c,,,,,i.-io,o,,o sBo.,r ~ his 80
no,y ,,,,Li. r,,.soI, ha ha,,ir, 40
my nu,r,,r. uo di.rohod hi,rs,lS 10 sho,
his bruised rerso, Il, mo
Durv oro,bor n,r,bor ,r bis oo,,ro,r
,assad ,hrou,b tho .,mo o,deaI. !, foc,
,besa in.,,nrcs wore 90 ,,morous ,h,, !,
would he imDossjhl. IN oiyo n fuII acco,,,,
If tbcm S',rice II IN say ,bev wsro os
daily occurrence. and inflicted bv the com
mands of officers who were more or less
under the influence of liquor
The press Of tho country soon cried out
against these practiSed crueties ard de-
handed that an invest igation of the matter
should forthwith h" made In the mean
time Gen. b. II Hill, commanding, wrote
a denial in toto of the entire article and for
warded the same To the Adiutant -(;eueral
limited States Army assigning MANY nm,
,r,,bs "a tho c,rs, which Iad % H. n,,,u
- T.. c..s,u w -.
' :" " ''' '''''"
ai'er 'he war i"l'ar'ineh' had peeh COM
munlCattd WIFI an onlCCr was sent from
Gen, Shcridans department and ordered
to proceed To Fort jefferson, Fla
(ien Hin was absent at the time an lea Va
"a, Havana n suh,l,or, oficer he;pg i,
,o,,,,,a,d III, ;,,,.o.,;,,,in, noe 60,
-.t" ~, -. " "
Fa'.'cH w "'s !" i'N 'nlhP'd'h' were ue-
MED speech with tho officer, ard others
were fea rful of opouirg their Inns for faar
10y" "
ot after Consequences lhey had OeCone
slaves tn their tyrart rulars and tremhad
- ~, en-
NJ 'Hef HpNIpd'h' ''' oiH'fiN nHu PFC
mic over the matter, indulging in frealieut
lr,,,oL,. ,r,,,, ,b, old R-n,., I,,, al l.,
u'""s'''7 wa" Wv '' "'"" " '"s' anu III
this manner were their cruel acts smoot he'd
ox.r and f,r tho ,i,,a b,irg busbod mn
o'' "'' iva WV '''''' '''H ''''" Wy
AN OFFICERS SIDE or TIE STORY
-, ,,.,
lieu'. --" had hNIS assumed command
of COMPANY - Ma ior --.- ha wing been
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