The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-13


during which time / was shown many
kininesses and attentions from southern
syinnuthlzors, was carried to "a Fort
Delaware prison After n lapse Of some
ttne I was drawn IN With the lot
of Blk hundred officers to be car
red TO Morris Island" Ito be placed
under tho fire Z or otlr own guns
Mt Charleston. Wo were crowded m =
tho dark hole Of the vessel, only, etunl
to tl1e .tl1ck Hole Of Calcutta. and
without my light Il or air, except that
driven down d Shaft by windsnis. "a
On our arrival at otlr destination we
were put In a ''stoclsndc pen" between
',F'ort Wagner and Fort Gregg" and
guarded by a ,iegroEfcg inent. For forty
five days we sat upon the sands and Wit
messed the burning fuses from bombs,
larger than nail Kegs con tinuot,sly fired ca
night anu day by our men ut the torts.
II they ovcrsl,ot tho one or ufiersllot tha
other they'd hit ,ls. Bit that God thnt
marks even tho spnrrows fall, protected
us. On the eye Of our leaving for HI. III
ton Head" tho negroes on guard fired
into some Of us. i saw three fall either
killed or woinded they were liurriedly
moved o,it / never learned their ftlte.
ON our arrival iii ,"Port Royal E1arbor'h
wc cast anchor eight miles. out from shore.
Three of Our number got the cabin maid
to steal them life preserves from the
cabins and quietly Sided overheard where
sharks were as thick MS snlltlnoWs. TWO
were exhausted from thirst dnd lack OF
food and were captured on rPlnkney
Island !, tho third reached Charleston ySy
The six hundred officers were now d.
lyIdcd-thrcc hundred ttwere confined In
Fort Pulaski and three hundred, at Hilton
Head. Is !, ,t;Ss
UNDER "RETALIATIoN'p'3A AND LIVING
ON CATS. IA H Y,
We had Jumped out 3of the frying pm
into the fire." We wero NIL Put under
what they called "rctnliat ton" for forty
five days. They claimed that we starved
.theirlprsoners at Andersonville (not hay
ing much to feed them, rs they had cut
our lines and refused to cxchnngc), and
with MI their christianity and plian-
throplly they held it wns right for them
TO starvc us ms n &vicarious punishment
for the sins Of others. They gave ,is
absolutely nothing n all to eat for forty
five days but n little rotten cornrnenl
filled with black bugs without salt or
anyway to cook it. Our comrades were
dying by squads daily, the dead house
was filled all the time I, with cnrnsn5f
Scores of cats would enter through holes
ana prey upon sLIlG utfttl, u
would put bags over the 6l1uas through
which the cats cntcred,pand some would
go In with clubs, and soon we would have
n full supply OF cats. They were eaten
ravenousy by the starving officers. ns
lieutenant Pearys men ate lfclr. COM
radcs. At last we werc ordered sack TO
Fort Delaware. The remnant OF the SIS
hundred left that Yankee hell, where
southern braves cried for bread and fec
on cats: gorged with the corpses Of Their
dead comrades. We reached Tort Della
ware a short time before the surrender.
One morning was aroused hy familiar
'rcbcl yell"-looked out and saw The flncs
Cropping at half mast and hcald Tint.
Booth had killed Lincon. Soon 1lri-f
Yates and line officers were pnroled and
sixty field officers were held in prison ur;'
til August 35'a
TIE OLD BRIGADE, WHOSE REG1 q
MENTs FURNISHED EARLY. Wiz
LIAM SMITH, a. p. HILL, j. A.
WALKER AND ]. B. TER
{RELL Will
In conclusion I will say TINT some
years ago Captain James Eumg,lrdncr Of
Saunton, who was mr. Once" in rhe Fifty
second Vt,...,A Regiment. vet on TIC
left OF the Forty-ninth. told me hat bis
regiment also had only three officers ana
eighteen men left. Thus and Il there at
Bcthcsdn ChurchEwell nigh persheq one,
OF tho 'crandcst corps or men the. world
has over made s.up Of thei hest
young blood OF Virginia, fighting for their
"Larcs and thell; Penates"-thelr expo IS
would brighten the faircst name uron
the roll OF Ba tile Abbey, and vie with the
tnIghtliest OF any age. a brigade that
had been led to victory by General Early
and others on hundred ,battienelds: that
had swept everything before y y Ike g
,f&or,x. do ~
had fought ana blcd;, a brigade that had
furnished tosrthc Confeder ' eoHr.s or
hve renerals Early William Smith: =;
P. Hill JsAss Walker and Ier T !,
(whosc cornms ~ ts lya ~ NM,
when he fclD ,Sthusato4 bes aays hte rGd;s.A e
absent wounded returned rnnk sf%nle =.
recruited bySconscrpt Its nv =, ,
toric old Fourth Yrslnill "a! died
then andtthere at Bethe SO q nr 81
~. G., b. CIRIsTIhN. fa
Walkers Ford, Amherst Co, "a.