The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-26

treeses or with mattresses, furnished by
private charity, without sheets or bed
ding Of any kind. except blankets otter.
& IN RAGS: In wards reeking with filth and
foul air. Tho stencil Is most offensive
we carefully avoid all exaggerat ton of
statement. but we give some facts which
speak for themselves. From January
q, 1868. when the prisoners I'm number
about $500 arrived at Camp Douglas. to
February 18th. the day Of our visit, SIS
patients have been admitted to the hos
pitfalls, Of whom $50 have died This NOR
tally of 33 per cent does not express
the whole truth. for OF the us patients.
then rema ming in the hospitals. large
number must have since died. Besides
this 100 prisoners have died in barra cks.
not having been able to gain admission.
even to the miserable Accommodations of
the hospital, and at the time OF oua
visit 80 persons were sick in barracks
waiting for room In hospitals Thus It
will be seen that $50 out Of the $500 pris-
oners had died in twenty-one days
rate OF mortality which. II continued.
would secure their total determination in
about 800 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 pris-5
oners are ..dfscredita bic to Christian
peonle." they add:
TT surely Is not the intention Of our
government to place these prisoners l.,
position which will secure their ex
termination by pest!lence in less than a
year.
See, also. renort OF United States Sur
geon a NJ. Clark. Series IT. Vol. VI
page 81. See also Id p 1l3.
It is not a little surprising that when
the representa- lives of this same .'sani-
tary Commission" published their .savaq.s
and partisan report in September 1864.
as to the way their prisoners were be-.
ing treated in Southern prisons. which
report they had adorned with pictures
OF skeletons. alleged to have come from
our prison hospitals. they did rot make
some allusion to the condition Of things
as found by them in their own hospit-
ais?
But, as further proof Of their viola ton
OF tne cartel. It will be seen that on
May 49, 1868. Judge Ould wrote to Cot
onel' Ludlow again, calling his attention
Z to the large number OF our officers cap
tured long since and still held by then, !,
threatened retaliation II the unjust and
harsh course then pursued by the Fede-
rails toward our off GERS 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 retalla ton. The Confederate
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. SOD.
MOSBY'S MEN
Again. on the next day. he wrote.
naming several officers of Mosbys men
who had been carried to the Old CAPITOL
prison He said:
They are retained under the allega-
ton that they are bushwtlackerss and
guerrillars. Mosby's command is in the
Confederate service. in every sense Of
the term He Is regularly commissioned
and his force is as strictly Confederate
as any In our army. Why is this done?
This day have cleared every prison In
my control. as far as know. II there
is any detention anywhere. let me know.