The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-09

! Gus ana revengeful element OF politicians
! that infest tho Executive presence and
promise to raise monuments and ln1oo me
hates OF the war; provided that they can
got office, that vast number or the
very best men In the the, ReE ~. party
open wounds that come OF Civil War.
| They say. Let US have peace
. The report Of Congressman Sharks Mlk on
Rebel Authorities, made to the House
July 10TH. 1861 is very voluminous. and
some of It very ylnd!ctive and SANDER .
figures of Surgeon-Gcncral Barnes's re-
| port.
There is quoted IN this report, ono
ward and furnished by the Surgeon-Gen
erals Office, which gives the following
J, figures MS TO the number OF Confederate
and hospitals:
Died DIcd Of disease 81 81
| Died OF wounds ....................b ,5t9
Causes not reported .............,. 1856
Total ..................3o,7l6
General II. v. Boynton. who was not
only gallant Federal soldier. hut one
OF the fairest men we have known and
| whose recent death has been sincerely
! lamented in7 the South rs well4as In the
! North. gave the above figures. and adds:
This total exceeds tie figures given
| by Mr.. Hill, and the excess Is accounted
ne,udcs All ali deaths " Of ndlyiduai Soldiers
under Treatment for wounds, or disease
reported. from any OF the general hes
! prisons, in which Confederate soldiers
were confined.
These figures appear in moro direct
! details rs to the deaths OF Confederate
| prisoners In Union prisons In tables
prepared in the acknowledgements Office.
This statement was made up from an
discrimination Of muster rolls. Surgcon-Gen-
erals statement, and Quartermastcr-Gen
IeraI statement as to records OF burihls.
I4na the figures thus obtained agree with.
!s,Aosc Quoted by Mr, I'LL IN his debate.
G,ontedeTa,c. prisoners , Of war who died
In nc hands u Federal authorities us
49, aa =, hoa W'li not.ce that M. I ~
sSti.es IN. MS ~ round NUM- " -5Iu.
',et.sii o. ,1i.on soiaers as slNen 10 Mr.
% t MON = report m 1fousld numbers ~
E ~ I" NJ. StahFons report SHOWS
e' GS;t,,, .,na ,.,.
,n,d 1'ie q poae VIII De 70 SLOW
ne e, nent an GohGosersS tat over three
nra, ~ a'nu ~
craio - nrIeons u reuet's ~ eo''ica
W. W. .,siI Sui, ia ~ <a,,o.
cnnitoTt tS ~ ttu ,ni hoiioHiuS NJ, as
for ' the stopp ,1 Of the exchanre o.
prisoners and thc Constituent sniferinr
| whJch ensI,eI wb,c, we niin fran t''s
! Northern paper published not long n ftcr
| thc close Of rt,n u;ar.'-' ~ We ~
General Butler said ut Hamilton Ohio.
swered newspspe err attacks. he felt il his his
duty here at ii Hamilton, TO ret,,te a slam ,s
der which had been circulated from this
| platform 81 fcy,,i DAYS nro ~ y pentjen,an
Of stnndn em ays asH ny seniaa
| OF the Democratic ca ndidaIc ~ - ~.
eve had $1,000 or thereabout of their
prisoners. they had 30 co Of ours " .it or
thereabout I don't give Ell The exacI 1T nun n.
2
are the aproximntef number
'.'I proposed to 70 on and exchange
with the Rebels, man for man. officer
for officer until II t.ot "a COO Of orr Non
and then 1 would sill have had 5000 Of
theirs lcft on, nv hands. And then
promised to twist these 5000 Until got
the negroes outsof the Rebels (Applause).
| frdcrate CommTsntoner. This was On
the 1st of Anril. before WI, cnmmenrcd To
move on that campaian If 1864 from the
Rapidan TO the James, around Rich
mond. At that limo" thr liniItenant-ren.
eral visited nv hnado,,arters and I 5sh
him what had done. :" 1Ie gave mo. cor.
tni, wnrb, dtract,ons Wy, my 80 ~
atrntiona yyr,tin% ~, Ye so MS ~,
propositlon for exchange 10 the Govern.
ment nf tha 1YnitoI a. otas IL @ ~
dered mo not r. riva Re Canfoiler, ~
annthor nv y, 80 g. - EN- .,r'
Il '' telegraphe a 'i back 10 him in these
s" We. .Yonr order .hou ~ ohova, ~
assume Won do not mean p r. pu VII,
tho tn io, ~ "a VIZ :!
woA Me replied lied Take O. all the sic, sick and
thal,I you can GEL 3, but don't give
t' Van " nn : scr N thn, ov,n ,,,, .,.,
wo,de .in ,an hia s evs WV, SEX anu
o,,,na ~ men ,nas systeHi would soon
I, ala Ia s,nn E st - seop ,,rh. 49,,
ho,,s. i'gs, NJ, mas ,'oL unli
G4usust, ioot, "neh MI. Cuid, me Rebel ,i
SonI commissioner again wrote en- me: We VIII
trot a"0 s'Sl''s 'o'"'"s aoou' e9'orea
u lald this disPatch before the lev
was s,bstantlally: II You give The Rebels
the 5000 men whom we hold. it will in
sure the defat OF General sherman, and
nmaahEering our salety mere around tt. Hich-
mt n the confndnratc ''C,
so that they could stop ali further offeH
of exchange.