Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-26

eln heartsick at the teTIlllHdtioli, W.
have no self reproaches. a. p. 4os.
In I,udlow's reply to this letter. he
s;mnly saws Judge Ould was mistaken
IN his charges and complaints. but he
did not succeed In pointing out one single
instance in which Judge Ould was IN
error.
notwithstanding all these charges and
counter-charges. exchanges stu Went on
and so we find Colonel Ludlow reporting
~ Secretary Stanton on May s. 1868, as
follows:
II have Just returned from City Point.
and have brought with me all my oth-
GERS who have been held by the Con
federates, and whom send to CITY Point
tonight I have made the following
declaration of exchanges:
81. All officers and enlisted men, ana
all persons, whatever may have been
their classification or character. VINO
have been, delivered at City Point up TO
the 9Th of May, 1868.
SEQ All officers who have been cap
tured and released on parole up to April
l. 1868. wherever they may have been
captured" ID P. oo9. see also =.
564.
OUR MANY GRIEVANCES
IT seems that the Confederate Congress
had refused to sustain Mr.. Davis. in his
suggested retalatory measures as TO the
trea tuent of officers to the full extent
he had recommended, and so exchanges
went on with the result as Just ABOVE
reported up to May t. 1863, and with
but few. If any, complaints against the
Confederates Of i'll treatment to prison
ers to that time But how does the case
stand. in this respect, at this time. with
the Federals? We have only space here
for two quotations to show this. Soth OF
these are from their own witnesses, ano
it would seem that these would offset
'Andersonville." THE Libby, or any
other place this side of the internal re-
gion.
On February g. 1868, Judge ould wrote
Colonel Ludlow:
ST see from your own papers that some
dozen of our men captured at Arkansas
Post were allowed to freeze to death
in one night at Samp Douglas. ! appeal
to our common instincts, against such
atrocious inhumanity." ID p. 257.
We find no denial of this charge. On
May 10, 1868, Dr. William H. Van Buren,,
of New Yorf, on behalf OF the United
States Sanitary Commission" reported
to the Secretary of War the condition
Of the hospitals of the prisoners at
Camp Douglas, near Chicago. and Gratlot
street. st. Louis. In this report he In
corporates the statements Of Drs. Hun
and Cogswell, of Albany. N. Y, who had
been employed by the Sanitary Commits
sion to inspect hospitals, and DR.. ".
commends these gentlemen as men OF
high character and eminent fitness for
the work to which they had been as
signed.
WHAT CERTAIN NORTHERNERS
SAID.
It is from tho statement OF these north
ern gentlemen that we quote. They
make their report from Albany, April o.
1863. and among other things write as
follows:
'In our experience we have never wit
messed so painful a spectacle as that
presented by these wretched inmates;
without change of clothing. covered with
vermin they lie in cots, without mat
tresses, or with mattresses, furnished by
private charity, without sheets or bed
ding Of any kind except blankets, often
in rags: in wards reelsing with filth and
foul air. The stencil is most offensive.
We carefully avoid all exagseration of
statement, but we give some facts which
speak for themselves. From January y.
1863. when the prisoners lin number about
$500 arrived at Camp Douglas, to Feb
ruary 18th, the day of our visit, 3S5 pa
tients have been admitted to the hos
pitfalls, Of whom 100 have died. This NOR
tally Of 80 per cent. does not express
the whole truth for Of the 1tS patients
then remaining in the hospitals, large
number must have since died. Besides
this 100 prisoners have died in barracks.
not having been able to gain admission
even to the miserable accommodations Of
the hospital, and at the time of our
visit $50 persons were sick IN barracks
waiting for room in hospital. Thus il
will be seen that 2e0 out Of the $500
prisoners had died in twenty-one days.
rate of mortality which If continued
would secure their total determination in
about 900 days"
CONDITIONS At ST. LOUIS.
They then go on to describe the con-
ditions at ST. Louis. showing them to be
even worse than at Chicago, and after
stating that the conditions of these
prisoners are "discreditable to a Christian
people," they add:
1T surely is not the intention of our
government to place these prisoners In
| position which will secure their eXterrni-
| nation by pestilence In less than a year"
! See also report Of United States Sur
geon A. NJ. Clark. Series IL, Vol VI,
page 81. See also Id. p. 113.
| Is it not q little surprising that when
the representatives of this same SAM
| tary Commission published their savage
| and partisan report in September. 1864.
as to the way their prisoners were being
! treated in southern prisons. which re-
| port they had adorned with pictures OF
skeletons alleged to have come from our
prison hospitals. they did not make some
allusion to the condition of things as
| found by them in their own hospitals?
| But in further proof of their violation OF
| the cartel. it will be seen that on May GOTH.
/ 1858 Judge Ould wrote to Colonel Ludlow
/ again, calling his attention to the Large
number OF our officers captured long since
| and still held by them" threatened re-
! taliation If the unjust and harsh course
| then pursued by the Federals toward our
| officers was persevered in, and concluded
| as follows:
] Nothing is now left as to those whom
our protests have failed to release but
| to resort to retaliation Tie Confeder-
| ate Government is anxious to avoid a re-
sort to that harsh measure. In its name
! I make final appeal for that justice
! to our imprisoned officers and men which
| your own agreements have declared to be
their due I'D. p. 6GT.
MOSBY'S MEN.
Again. on the next day. he wrote. nam
ing several officers of Mosby's men who
had been carried to the Old Capitol prison
He said:
They are retained under the allegation
that they are bushwhackers and guerrii
las. Atosbys command is in the Con.
federate service, in every sense OF the
terms. He Is regularly commissioned and
i his force is as strictly Confederate as an.
In our army Why is this done? Thi.
day I have cleared every prison in my
control, as far as ] know. II there L