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ITOOME XVI.
LOVE'S LAMAISM.
Theree Mitethieg iu theirreTess Speed
Of years that o'er us fly..
Which, though wegive them little heed,
Bring sadness to the eye;
Their-flight so swift, their stay so brief,
Theft heit'iting to dePart;
Theii eheckei'd scenes of joy and grief,
Speak gravely to the heart.
A na yet love's landmarks, gemming thick
Life's deep indented coast,
Though telling loudly of the wreck •
Of hopes and treasures lost,
the brightest.
.re aye the hntriterVapote we see,
As doim Wee' iouree we move,,--
The gale-days of tnenlory,
•
The fistivals, of love.
Our birth-days—iliougli like monuments,
They stand, to tell how fast
The scanty sands Of life are spent,
Still ebbing to .he last;
Our birthdays—how with grateful glee
We welcome in their morn,
As if we held in simple fee .
The hopes that then are born.
Our hittlit-dnys—chroniclers of Time,.
To warn us of his flight;
In childhood, youth, or mainly prime,
Those days are always bright:
Then memory enures to visit love,
Then hive with fancy preys,
And all the aff.ctions join to. prove
Those days the best of clays.
Pik! , ita li_zfrabi 311 1 '0 .;7 *AA
A Thrilling Romance.
Never unff we 'stood by the grave of the
Green Mountain boys did 'we realize how
touch stramzer is truth than fiction: Your
readers will recollect last sulanler a pri
vate was cuurt•wartiale.l fur sleeping on
t'q t_ st out near 'hain rid , := on th
per Potomac. Ile was convicted ;- his sen
tence-was-death--; the finding was approved
of by the General and the day fixed for his
execution. He was a youth of more than
ordinary intelligence; lie did not beg for par
don, but was willing to meet his f te. The
time drew near; the stern necessity of war
required that an example should be made of
sonic; his was an aggravated case. But the
case reached the ears of the President; he
resolved to save hint; ho signed a pardon
and sent it out; the day came. "Suppose,"
thoughl the President, "my pardon has not
reached him. The telegraph was called into
requisition ; an answer did not 'come prompt
ly. "Bring up my carriage," he ordered.-
3t came, and soon the important-State papers
were dropped and throUgh the hot boiling
sun and dusty roads he road to the camp,
about ten miles and saw the soldier was sav
ed ! .He has doubtless forgotten the inci
dent, but the soldier did not. -When the
Third Vermont charged upon the rifle pits,
the enemy pour6.l a volley upon them. The
first man, who fell, with six bullets in his
body, was WM. SCOTT, of Company K.
llis comrades caught him up, 'and as his life
blood ebbed away, he raised to heaven, amid
the din of war, the cries of the dying, and
the shouts of the enemy, a prayer for, the
President, and as-he died he remarked to
his comrades that he was no coward and not
afraid to die.
He was interred in the presence of his reg
iment, in the little grove about two miles to
Ike rear of the Rebl fort, in the centre of a
grove of holly and vines ; a few Cherry-trees,
in full bloom, are scattered around, the edge.
In digging his grave a skull mid blues was
found, and metal buttons 'showed • that the
identical spot had been used in the Revolu
tionary war fort our fathers who fell in the
same cause. The Chaplain narrated the cir
cumstances to the boys, who stood `around
with uncovered heads. He prayed for the
President, and paid the ntost glowing tribute
to his noble heart that we ever heard. The
tears started to their eyes us' the clods of
earth were thrown upon him in his narrow
grave where he lay shrouded-in_ his coat and
blanket.
'The men 'separated . ; ilia few minutes all
were enraged in 'something around the camp
as though nothing had 'happened unusual;
but that scene will live upon 'their memories
while life lasts; the calm look of SCOTT'S
face, the seeming look 'of satisfaction he felt,
still lingered; and could the President have
seen him"h'e would 'have -felt that his act' of
mercy had' been wisely bestowed.
An officer who was on _the Cumberland,
writes that the scenes on board were -.heart
. breaking,- TWO. of the gunners el.' the bow
:guns, when. the ship was Sinking, clasped
their, gnus in their arms, and would not be
removed, and went down. embracing . them.
One gunner had both legs shot away, hut lie
made three stops on his,' and bloody
t i :hs, seized the lanyard and fired his gnu,
a ~`:fell back dead. Another, lost both arms
d legs, yet lived, and when they wouldus.
slat him, died out, "back to your guns boys!
Give .'em fits ! Hurrah for the old T"—
He lls lived till she sunk.• . . .
- Aimee battle of - Winchester; '- amo ng the
acts of chivalry perforined cri , tbeleld was
one'by -private •Graham;- of the-84-Lh: Penn
Sylvania. lie:earried the regimeataLstia
dard. The left hand; which-held:l4 , 4m
shot off; gait befora„the Altar SpaeglecLi3au
ner "fell to , the ground he graved- it in the
remaining hand and held it ; triumphantly...*
'The right arm was next disabled; but before
the tigers fell 'ho ivi tilledbralitird-ball.
He viiiiAjlative of . •
.If , ConOtiroup itroposesi
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IiTAYNESHORO', FRANI(LIN COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA; FRIBA* MORNING,
A'Sikattrail PaoPaxcir..- , eThe following
eireunistences, says ' the Riclimond-Vhig,
recently occurred at Penaicola, and its trdth
is 'winched for by a trust-worthy officer of
the atinyi • - _
."A soldier in the Confederate'service fell
into ii - long end 'pl.ofoind sleep, from which
his qymritdes vainly essayed to arouse' him.
At last he woke up liiingelf. He then sta.'
ted that he should die the next afternoon at
4 o'clock, Tor it was, so revealed to him in
his drearii. He said in the last week of the
month of April would be fought the greatest
and bloodiest battle .of Modern. 'times, and
that early in May-peace' would 'break upon
the land more suddenly an unexpectedly
than the war had done in the beginning.-
'The first. part of the prophetic dream has
been realized, foi the soldier died the neat
day at 4 o'clock p. in. Will the rest be in
April and May? Let believers in dreams
wet . ,
HOW tHEY' DO IN ST: Louis.—As the
Rebel prisoners from the South passed
through the streets of St. Louis on Tuesday,
on their way to the military prison, a number
of Secesh women, collected at the house of
one William Bell, waved Rebel fiagi, and in
dulged in other manifestations of sympathy
for the prisoners' and insult to National troops.
The Provost Marshall learning the facts,
sent a guard to prevent all ingress and egress
to and from Bell's house, thus making it a
prison for The confinement of its inmates un
til further orders. When the stock of pro
'visions- in the house gives out, the women
will be served With army rations like other
prisoners. The sane course will be pursued
toward other Rebel fashionables in future,
who persist in violating
_rules and insulting
Government troops and Or:Leers.
END OF TITE Wortr,D.—Aii English astron
omer has come to the conchision that the sun
has not illuminated the earth more than five
hundred'million . of years, and that it. is bur
ning out so fast that inhabitants of the earth
cannot continue to enjoy the light and heat
e•kentiol to thnir -
longer, unless new sources, now unknown to
us, are - prepared in the great storehouse of
Creation. We don't see as the present gen
eration has any great cause for anxiety.
A WOMAN'S ANSWER.—In one of the
courts at Hartford, Conn. recently a woman
was testifying on behalf of son, and swore
that he had worked on--a-- - farm ever since he
was born. The lawyer who cross-examined
her said:
"You assert that your son has worked on
a farm ever since he was born?"
"I do."
"What did he do the first year?"
"lie milked," she replied.
The whole court - laughed heartily, and the
witness was questioned no further,
AN IMPATIENT PLAY-GOER.—"A theatri
cal company was playing in one of the inte
rior towns of the West, Shakespeare's Othel
lo, and when Othello demanded of Desedmo
na 'the handkerchiefl the handkerchief!' a
green 'un called out impatiently : 'Never
mind the handkerchief; don't wait for- that;
blow your nose with your fingers and go a
head."
When the veteran Commodore Joseph
Smith, on duty at Washington, saw by the
first despatch from Fortress Monroe that the
frigate Congiess, , commanded by his son Jo
seph had raised the white flag, he only re
marked quietly, "Joe's dead !"• No Roman
father ever paid a.nobler or more emphatic
tribute of confidence to a gallant son, than is
contained in the words so uttered, nor gave
that son.to his country with more cheerful
and entire devotion.- • And the sad assurance
was well founded. The flag was not struck
until his son had fallen. .
The rebels are all agreed in their doter•
Initiation to "die. in the last ditch," but when
ever they come to a ditch in their flight,
they say, "Oh, this isn' the last by any man
ner of moans; we know o at least a dozen
mere a little ahead o s. and we can't make
up our tniudslo die except in the very last
one. Onward, ho
The Savannah Georgian Boasts that the
Southern Confederacy is still afloat. Bub
bles float till they burst.
The rebel leaders have a great many quar
rels among themselves, but dray are all work
ing to the same end, and that's a rope's.
The Richmond Enquirer thinks it. diffi
cult to say which , side whipped at Winches
ter. It is very easy to say which side ran.
The Confederate rulers are like the Con
federate notes—there's nothing to• redeem
them. '
What in immortality? An undying name;
an everlasting home for the redeemed sons
of light.
•
• What is grief? The evening to all pleaspre
and the deep and - sombre - feelings of meet.;
the child of sorrow. . " ,
The rebelslike 'to fight on the tops of tills
and mountains, for' then they can - easily
816.Pe• . •
• A snuff-tabor's nose, genteeny.tdown, is a
musieal anuff-box.' - • ,
•
Ilaidesa old ° maideatioAia-or'bitoikalaritOd
is inatellasa misery . ° ' "
• There- ere no 'otiter' eteetnniii 'in zrafitre
*at . can 'nharinlike *omen And '
,
Haman 'sitting ton it- chest is ahot'at i la
wouhriirefer, if hit at all; .:tiobe hit is hie
ehest;` - •
,
r lt it haystuble „lookat,the sleeper* in
.oherch wittout befog riirtulded th*t.B,un
,ddy i* a day of rast. •
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Fatialltr Zl7co'biriaspaixer i '
Are*zrist,l,lxi.
REPORT Of THEAOINT. COMMITTEE
ON THE'CONOUCT OF THE WAR.' •
The Reich %Ilse than Savages—The
cities they Committed upon our Dead and
Minded at Manassas-- They Torture the
Wounded, Burka...3l)ga, and. use their
Skulla inc. Drinking Cupi, and their Bones
for Drnmstieks, Fiver Rings, 4.c.—Hor
rible Detail of the Brutish Cruelties Prac-
find sp un the Union S'ordiers.
The Joint Committee ou the Condnet of
the Present War made the following report
to-day, in the Senate: .
On the first day of April the Senate of
the United States adopted the following res
olution.' which was referred to the Committee
on the Conduct of the War:
Resolved, That the Select Committee. on
the Conduct of the War be 'directed to col
l. r. •• ' enee-with—regat the -
ous treatmeneby the rebels, at Manassas, of
the remains of officers and soldiete of the U
nited States killed in battle there; and that
the said select committee also inqUire into
the fact whether the Indian sa'vage's bare
been employed by the rebels, in their military
service, ag,ainslthe Government of the Uni
ted States, ana how such warfare has been
condlicted by . said savages.
In pursuance of the instructions contained
in this .resolution, your committee have the
honer to -report that they eninined a
number of witnesses, whose testimony is
herewith submitted.
Mr. Nathaniel F. Parker, who was cap
tured at Falling Waters-, Virginia, testifies
that he was kept in close confinement, deni
ed exorcise, and, with a number of others,
huddled up in a room; that their fowl, gen-__
erally scant, was always bad, and sometimes
nauseous; that the wounded had neither
medical attention no r humane treatment,
and that many of these latter died from sheer
neglect; that five of the prisoners were shot
by the sentries outside, and that he saw one
man, Tibbitts, of the New York Twenty-seg
enth Regiment, shot as he was passing his
window, on the Bth of November, and that
he died of hr 1 - d" . " — fh — • 12th. The
. theL cc as wound on Ate.
perpetrate. of this fonl- murder was subse
quently promoted by the rebel Government.
Dr. J. M. Homiston, surgeon, of the 14th
New York or Brooklyn regiment, captured
at Bull Run, testifies that when he solicited
permission to remain on the field and to at
tend to wounded men, some of whom were
in a helpless and painfUl condition, and suf
feringfor-water, he was brutally refused.
They offered him neither water nor food.—
He and his companions stood in the streets
of Manassas, surrounded by a threatening
and boisterous crowd, and ,were afterwards
thrust into an old building, and left, without
sustenance or covering, to sleep on the bare
floor._-It-was-only - when -- faintotnd without
food for 24 hours, that some cold bacon was
grudgingly given to them. When, at last,
they were permitted to go to the relief of
our wounded, the Secession surgeon would
not allow them to perform
.operations, but
entrusted the wounded to his.- young assist:
ants, "some of them with no more knowl
edge of what they attempted to do than an
apothecary's clelit." And further, "that
these inexperienced surgeons prformed
operations upon our men in a most horrible
manner; some of them were absolutely fright-
ful." "When," he adds, "I asked ',Doefor
Darby to allow me to amputate the leg of
Corporal Prescott, of' our regiment, and said
that the man must die if it ere not done,
'he told me that I should not be allowed to
do it." "While Dr. Homiston was waiting
e . says a Secesstonist came through the
room and said, "They aro operating upon
one of the Yankee's legs up stairs. I went
up and founi! that they had cut off Prescott's
leg. The assistantswere pulling on the flesh'
at each side, trying to get flap enough to
cover tho bone. They had sawed off the
bone without leaving any of the flesh to form
the flaps to cover it: and with all the force
they could use they could not get flap enough
to cover the bone. They were then obliged
to saw off about an inch more of the bone,
and even then,,. when . they came to put in
the stitches they could not approximate the
edges within less . than an inch and .a half of
each other, of course, as soon as there was
any swelling, the stiches tore out and the
bone stuck through again. Dr. Swaim tried,
to remedy •it by performing another opera
tion, but Prescott had become so debilitated
that he did not survive." 'Corporal Prescott
was a young man of', high position, and had
received a very liberal education.
The same witness describes the sufferings
of the wounded after the battle as inconeetv
, ably horrible; with had,food,'cOvering, no
water. - They were lying upon the floor as
thickly as they could be laid. "There was
not a particle of lightin the house to enable
us to move among them.", , Deaf. to all his
appeals, they continued Aii.refuse water to
.these. suffering menAind - he was only ens-
Lbled to procure it by 'setting cups 'under the
eaves to catch the- rain that Wei 'fallingotnd
in this 'way he spent the night catching the
1, water and. conveying it to' the *minded to
drink. ' As there was no light, he was Alit:
ect to crawl ou his hands and knees to avoid
stopping on their wounded .limbs: and; he.
- ads, "it is not a Wender thatilext morning .
.we found .that several' had died during the
night.," The.yonng eurgeon.S . 4ho seemed
to delight in. hacking and- butehering . these
'brat'e defenders Of one 'man try's' flag,' Wore
nOt,'it - Would seettriperniitted toperfUrtn, any
operations upon the rebel wounded:
Of OUT. wounded'," "says . ' this •Wiiness-"ivere
leftlying iiptintbelmttlesfield'aritil Tuesday,
night a a,d'Aredueaday tnorifidg." :Arbon.
affiaidetaly , e r
'll+4 l -tvitli theie'
'hiiing laid . outAbfoukb all Abe 7 :Mold:oM
of Newby; ituct-thalUkaultry.;mieshin*
TuesdaY.",, The ; dead. d•*uyiiiu 46 field
taried - for itUd;:ita itieledOdhuen"
'net onik:of FOurteeet4
meet, but altorftir regiments.' Tfikvituess
r . A •.4 ,5. .!;"-{',
testifies that- the rebel dead, wet* parried et
and, interrei decently. answer' to a "iiies
tion whether . the ‘Confedeititeiltbeinsclici
were not also, destitute of medicine, he-ro,
plied, Could- hot ba , io been., for they
took all of ours, even, to our . surgical instru•
mants.!' linzeceived none of theattOsition
from the surge Ons citr'tiOir othei Wide, 'gfvhioh,'
to use his own language; "I' should' haiie
slown to them had our position been re;
vetted." -
' The testimony of William 'F. Swalm,'ae
eistant
suigeon of the Fourteenth' Niw York
Regiment, who was 'taken priioner at Sud-
Church, confirms the statement of Dr. .
Homiston in regard to the brutal operations
on Corporal Prescott. He also states that
after ho himself hid been removed to Rich
mond, when seated one day with his feet on
the window-sill the sentry outside called toy
him j •min,_and-on—looking-ont-he
saw the sentry with his musket eta - ea and
pointed at him, and withdrew in tinte to save
his life. - He gives evidence of the careless,
heartless, and 'cruel manner in which the
surgeons operated upon our men. Previous
to leaving for and ten or twelve
days after the battle, he saw some ef the U
nion soldiers unburied' on the field; and en
tirely naked. Walking around were a great
many women, gloating over the horrid sight.
The case of Dr. Feipiisiin, Of one - Of the
New York Regiments, is mentioned by Dr.
Swaim. "When getting ifito his ambulance
to look after his own wounded he was fired
upon by the rebels. When he told them
who he was, they said they would Mien part
ing shot at him, which they did, wounding
him in the len% He had his boots on, and
his spurs - on his boots, and as they drove a
long his spurs—would-catch in the-tail-board
of the ambulance, causing him lo,shriek
agony." An 'deer rode up, and, placing'
his pistol to his head, threatened to shoot
him if he' continuod.to scream. This was on
Sunday, the day of the battle.
One of the most important witnesses , was
Gen James B. Rickets, well known in Wash
ington and throughont the country, lately
II 1 • .: •1 • la . I I • I . 1
• I
courage. After hasinj.been wounded in the
battle at Bull Run, he - was - captured, and as
he lay helpless on-his back, amarty of rebels
passing him cried out, "Knoek out his brains
the d----d Yankee." He met Gen. Beaute• x
gard, an old acquaintance, only a year his•
senior at the United States Military Acade
my, where both educated. He had met the
rebel General in the South a number of
times. - By this head of the rebel army, on
the day after the battle, he was told that his
(Gen. Rickett's) treatment would depend up
on the treatment extended to the rebel pri
vateers. His first lieutenant, Ramsey, who
was killed, was stripped of every article of
_his_clotriv-buthin-socks, and left naked-on
the field. He testified that those of our
wounded who died in Richmond *ere buried
in the negro burying ground among the ne
groes, and were put into the earth in the
most unfeeling manner. The statement of
other witnesses as to how the prisoners were
treated is fully confirmed by Gen. Ricketts.
He himself, while in prison, subsisted main
ly upon what he purchased with his own
money, the money brought to him by his
wife. "We had," he sap, "what they call
ed bacon soup. , --soup made of boiled bacon,
the bacon being being a little nalmid—which
you could not possibly eat; - and that for a
man Whose system was being drained by n
wound is no diet at all." In reply to a ques
fion whether he had heard anything about
our prisoners being shot by the rebel sen
tries, he answered: "Yes z a number of our
oleo wore shot. In one instanee two were
shot; one was . killed, and the -other wounded
by a man who rested his gun on the window
sill while ho capped it." , .
- Gen. Ricketts, in reference to his having
been held as one of the hostaFes, for the
privateers, states: "I considered it bad ' treat
ment to be selected as a hostage for a priva
teer, ' when I was so lame that I could not
walk, and while my wounds Wore still open
and unhealed. •At this time. Gen., Winder'
came to see me. He had been
,an offmar-in
my regiment; I had known hint for twenty
odd years. It was on the 9th of November
thab,ho came to see me.. Ho
,saw-that my
woutidir were still unhealed; hunatv my cell
dition; but that, very day ho received an or
der to select hostages for the privateers, and,
notwithstandin he know iny condition', the
next day, Sun&iy, the I.oth of November, I
Was selected as one of the hostages."
"I heard," he continues, "of a great many
of our Prisoners . who had been bayonetted
and shot: I saw three of theta—two that
had been bayonetted, and one, of them . shot.
One was named Louis Francis, -of .tha.Notio
York Fourteenth. Ho had received fourteen
bayonet wounds--one through - his privates
—Land he had one - wound . very .itnich like
mine, on 'the knee; in consequence &which
his leg wan amputated. 'after 'twelve weeks
had passed; arid Iwouldstate hero in regard •
to his case ' when it-was 'determined .to am
putate his leg, I' heard Dr. Peitchy,•the rebel
mrp„l,noncremark to one 'ofz. his yoUng : :anis
.tants, "I won't. be itreedy ; you may do. it ;"
atrthe . Yeung than; did it. I sew 'a,ntimber -
finny room, miany of whom lied been:badly
amputated:. The flaps' over the *tire '
drawn tee tight, and 'non* ' 'efA l 4 140.*4 1 .1
*traded. : ' , •
!„-f.A _mania, 't)inT stunk ,iitl 3 ,resatitt (the.
same referred to, in the testi m ony of eUrgeon ,
,116 m i t Okin - -it::+.o!putated twico,, and lias'
' thei4 , •i
':,-, - ..livedd '' to 'lliciliniond c'beflire.
"tbiti;',' , ''..r•t )1 1 06E' -: -Prenecite iliedNiiiiiini-,:
Ore :1 :),nt '4
3 I I;t ifr d ti• - ' rebel ;-:iliititor ; -on :
' . ' 1
- • • tirtility'retornArOfiit'liPkitiah-,
4i.f• yilnitild takenut the heartiinf tinfdlii
. vonit c gklitt,iiiiiiily' iie ifecrOidd Vie Off' their
Jeri •: 'Some •of the ' Soatterir.'gontleinon
tOrited me very handsomely:',' Wade Haiti*.
,Inal i - otheiwa's: timiosini ' t& nitlnitlin7-,,:cl'eame
•to'secrimiandlehaved.lifte a---getaatc* OW
-g•ay.”,s!.!'s.!-.. A ' . : , - -; ' ', T'l - `k'':,",- . " 4
• It npreliiills A: pait: of; did luster rof' ,fli in.,,.
, . : ..:',...i,•, , ,,.. : , * ,'% ',
•-' ‘ - .4' •
rebellion, that Gen. Rzoietts was v ' s i ted =by
his wife, who, ha*ing firseltaiiid that he was
killadin battle; tiftenhitds that - hat waif alive
but wounded, tintellint undei great , diffieni n
ties to - Manassas to ; see .her husband. He
says : had aluied.,to her 'Rely through, bat tenieetided, fi nal!' y ht reaching
the on the fourth tiny ann. the battle.L' There
were eight 'persons in the -.Lewis House, ;at
Manassas, in the room whore,/ lay, ,apa-- my
wife, for two weeks, slept in that room, on
the floor byy , my aide, Without - h. bad., 'llithen
We got tio Riahtnondiberti Wete sit of us'- in
it room, tunong thenrCol:; Wileozi, who . re
!sable& with us was, taken tQ
Charleston.. Thure:_we were all itt one
There was no, do4.te it:: "It iiriti - infich a's, it
Would be here if yfieslionld takebffthednotie
of this eoinauittee room; band 'then . .fill..the
o passage with woubded:soldient ,In thehe
e--summer tuOLLtlt
~..s tne stench from - their Woutids 1
and from the latensile•theY ' iiited, intiqii - airliit
There was im pririteyat ui4 'beeause, there
being do do - or, the room could not be elosed;.
We were there as,e-oommon show. „Colenel
Wilcox and myself were, objects ot,,,iiterest,
and were gazed upon as if we Were a'elitiple of
savages. The people Would 'Coin& in ' there
and say all sorts of things to .us, and about
us, until I was Obliged totell' them that I
was a prisoner, and had nothing to - say. On
our way to Itiehmond, when we reached
Gordonsville, Many women) were crowded a
round tbs. cars, and asked, my. wife .if she
cooked, if she washed, heir she got ittere.-;-
Finally, Mrs. Ricketts appealed to the'efficer
in charge ; and told him that it'was• not the
intention that we should be subjected to this
treatment, and if it was continued she would
make it known to the' autiMiitiei. General
Johntion took-my-wife's-earriage' and -horses
at Manassas, kept them, and, has them yet for
auglati known. When I got to Richmond,
I spoke to several gentlemen about this, acid
so did Mts. Ricketts. They said, of course,
the carriage and horses should be . -returned h
but they 'never wore. ~ "There is ;no debt,"
says this gallant soldier ' "that 'I desire. very
much to pay, and nothing troubles
,me BO
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vent me from,e,ntesigs• upon active service
at once)." - - , - .'
The case Louis Pranois, who was terribly
wounded and maltreated; and lost, a , leg , is
referred to by General Rioketts;: bid the
testimony Of Francis himself is Strittlin. , . l --
He was a private in the New.-- Yorlt-- •hrour
teenth regiment. He says : , •rsias attacked
by two rebel soldiers, , and wounded ,in the
right knee with the.bayonet., As I ,lay on
the sod they kept bayonetting, me untill ie
dared fourteen wounds. - One then left me,
the other remaining over me, when a • Union
soldier .coming up, shot him in the. breaSt,
and he fell dead. I lay on the ground until
10 o'clock .next day. I Was then -re:toyed in
trwagon to a building my *muds eimmined
and partially dressed'.
On the Saturday following we , Were car
ried to Manassas, tina,froni there to the gen
eral hospitaNn Richmond. ' M log having
partially 'mortified; I consented that it should
be amputated; which operation etas perform
ed by a young man. I insisted that they
should allow Dr. Swaim . to he present, for - I
wanted one Union Matt there W I died tinder
the - operation: 'The stitches and the' band
slipped, from neglect; and thebone protruded;
and about two weeks,after another.operation
was performed, at which time another •pleee
of the thigh bone was sawed off. Six weeks
after the amputation and before it lealed,,
I was removed to the tobacco factory:- . '
Two operations were subsequently performed
on Francisone at Fortress Monroe anal one
at Brooklyn, New York-after his 'release
frOm captivity.
Revolting as these disclosures are, it' was
when the-committee collie to examine wit
nesses in reference to the treatment' of our
heroic dead that the flendish•epirit of the
rebel leaders was most prominently exhibi
ted. Bailiff' Bixby, Jr.,. of Washington
testifies that he went Out in company with
G. A. Smart; of - tambritige, 'Massachusetts,
who went in search for -.the body of his
brother, wh o fell- at . Blackburn's'Ford
in the action of the 18th of July.—
They found the grave. The clothes were
identified as those of his loather on account
of sonic peculiarity in did make; '-fOr they
had teen uncle by his mother; 'midi, in order
to ideuVy ;them, other clothes made- by , her
were ttn; that, they might genii:tarp Ahem.
"We found no head in the grave,,' and no
bones, of any kinatiethittibilt the 'clothes
and portions of the flesh. - We' found .the
remains of'three other ,bodied -.altogether.—
The clothes were,there; some.flesh was, left,:
but no bones."- The, witneiies 'also state
that Mrs. Pierce Ilatler,:who Jives near the
place,. said that'she had-seen: the - rebels boil
ing portions of the bodies of our dead in 0p,..,
der to - obtain their bones as relies. They
eon! not,weit for then to'discay: She said
Ir
eh ad seen drumsticks mado,of 'Yankee'
a
- tinbones," as therzaile'4 theta. I,Mra. Zit-%
ler also stated that she
,had Weed 6 skull that,
'one of the Now Orleans' attilleritad, Which,.
.1u , said, he - - w:di going. t e.- send ( hi' oin e
• and -Intro tuount4 and tAa.t-lie. .4 1 44 4 4 to'
drinita brandy punch nut
-of it the day he
Witt' Married. . , • -
"Fiederieli Seliolini, ciftlio' city of ' Brook-,
I iiii; Neir,-York; testified: that '. hii Triteeeded
;to the battle-field;of.Bultßun.en the fourth
of this mouth -„(Aptjt). le fina - th,e place where .1
,ho ,supposed hie +rather), he - dy - NV4B t buried. .
'Mr. Seholei - ,who is aintin'or nruideationed i ;
chaise*, iiy•hiti;tatititooity'-ftilly - eoialirtn* s i,
:the statements-of Other sititaisses,;;.•Be ;tie!,
la.f*llokrel.naitt.t34-§ir9g74-45Y4.9T.w.: who
_stated that ity,as,,a - ,(anotoco, , trim& tor the
rebel seltliesinte 'ashiliit'llialtoneg y a' the:
-- Yratikees.- "1 ferinar 'hlksityi,-"in the bush t ,
es, in. the. futig t hliccrl'feiali - Xpgrt.pf a Anualie,
innifenii,cWitho-th"O' - sintntel,, - taiking 'otti ids'
th9trar e', , :iiitif ii•:Portitni'4e the;:pitteatoinig; '
-.4ttemitinfitteptill dertp4tOtittetp.the eteda of
rtnrime'VOl:f B t ll ot l 2ol.)9..istAitKs.4 l. -V t!''
.: .:40-Itgeupiiio , t np,p',tit to::.kup .ttic'enit . 4 ti.i: t „.
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t vi' "S•Tti ;•,
FIEWHINI
of the tihiforsii at sometimes, the sleeves of
the shirts in soother,,and., 41 .
pantaloonia-. lawltmleint or t eautigerinso
wliese,testattainrhatrulready .been' referred
to) Jiiyintild citit Ad - ttettehes !Where thri , ' Se
appaared 'that- their - re
uudithad no.t.been.„distnybed ; ,at,, , all., l ,4t,
Sahelo3, met a free riero fr oarited Anniptirit,
iih&resided.netti "plate,"" *heti 'le
told him the manner in , which' `theiii''briditik,
had been dug up, hosaid. he kriew,. Amid
beea done, and
, a hi.ed th a t the 'had
riniii*eriecid dig g ing 'bodies 'two itethitie days
after theAlwere battled, -for ' , the' purpose, raft
first', cif obtaining t tliolattttolis
forma, and ; that Ofterwards
them to get,their.bones, 'plaid that they
had taken rails atid - plashetthe fitadidtinin in
entre-under-the uitdd le-air "
arid prised ,them up:,'
"I'6 inforitiation orate negroes
jambe Franklin Lewis. corttibrited fullk: the
statement of this man, Hampton..., They Paid
that a good many of 'the. bodies
~ ned bean ,
stripped naked on the . sad before they wore
bithed, and:that sons ' ' verb buried naked.—'
I went to Mr/..f.awla',7loll:3olind,spoke to him
of the tuannerAti which . these„ bodies had
been disinterred. He admitted thatit
famoui, and condemned priricipally tett.
istatia Tigers, of General Wheat%
He admitted that out wounded::ltad, been
badly treated." In 'etnifumatien of the_ tes
ti/in:my of .11t. ' Swann ittid - 1/r: '
this witness avers that Mr: Lewis menticided
a number' of instances of men who had been
_murdered by bad surgical- treatm ent, „
lift, Lewis was afraid that, it peatileitie
*trial break eift donsoiluOticii'dflheidead
fining aliuried;a4aditai "he-.1-ad
gone arid- vi atned the.neighborhood i . and,had
the dead buried, sending:his min an?n, to /le
ast in doing,so., "On ipiedatniorning oqi
tehlay)„ I went out is sitaidi of mylitotliee's
grate. We found-the trench, end ...dug-'for
the bodies belriw., They mere ~eighteen ~inc
hes twofeet, below the Aurface,, and • had
been, laristledinin any way,
,In ono
,end . et
three inches , bolow 'the surface; , - the I,thigh
bode of a inau - whiek.had evidently ,beeni dug
up after, the burial., At ,the :other epd, hit
the . trcixeh; ,we,fetied the siniihorta - Of a 'Ulan,
which ilea boos stiiidit by
The• bedies.St the ends had bsei . pri
ed •
diggini.thelp;,,s,prty,of soldiers
came along mid showed us #
.part 'Of it Shin
hone, five or sill inclieS' whiCh hid file
end sowed off.- 'They liaidAhey fotivid
it, nincti„,w - rnanY other .piecekliworte.of l the
°shim; the rebels had dp.srtqcl.. - „.,,, prom - the
appearance of': it, pieces had been saved off
to math-finger-fings ------ :.14
gross iotieed this, they said thit'lliterebels
had'rings made or the Licata or out dead; and
that they had , tb,em for sale in tbe,cappete---
When, Dr. Swaim saw the brae, he aid it
wsp.a - part of 'the shinbone of The *,
soldiers represent that theie *Ore ltitfof those
bones seaffered‘through therelierhuts awed
into 'rings"' &o. Mr. :Lewis and his,rogroes
alb spPke of Col: Jambs Cameron's body ; and
knew “it 'had been k ssfripped,•ai(d - also
Where it had been' bitried." Mli SAMI4, in
answer to a question'ofono of this:committee,
described the - differstrt treatment extended
to the ViliOn•soldiVrs Mill the' - riibet.deiid:—
The - latter had 'little -head Wards placed. at.
the head of their respixetivesrlevcs an+Mark
ed; none of them had ishe.uppearenceOf hav
ing been disturbed: ' e j
The evidence of f lat disfinguishollitt&
tiriotie eitlien; Hoii. 'Willhlire-Spitigfteif Gov
ernor of the Strife 'of • Rhode': Island; :coilkol.4
and fortifies some or the•lncq3t remold% state
ments of 'former witnesse_s. 10' iibject in
visiting the battle fOtalikislii -- riiabvel the
body of eof.;nof
Of the 'Rhode •islandreit:. .11Vtotilf: out
with:him•sevoral of , 00,men to,Mentify
the graves. On reaciffiio4limehe'states
that "we commenced Awing t - Or 'the b dies
of Colonel Sloenni and ilfiliorAtillolvatthe
spot pointed out to us bythose who :hadbeen
in, the action. . .- .
"While digging, some ne,gro Woman name
and askei us whom we we're gotik irigt*liiiif at
thn:same time said that;•ColonolAjogir: had
been, dug up by. the rebOis, bitkoi,Vo. men ikc a
tleorgia- regiment, his lidad erti"iiitqmrhis
'body taken to'a ravine '• thirty -orltisttcyaids,
below, and- there; b rtinedi-; IrSrd'skimpOdi (.11r,z.
ging and w.ent to th:e.,spOt , desiwted oi wbere
.we found coals and ashes ani . ltaines mmglecl
together. little istauce fiiiitithio* • ire
'found'a•shirt,'Still buttoned at , thefraiekoind
a bbniket with large Immtities.of bao-1 1 XPOn
it,- everything •initieating44-bill: l ling:Pfa
body there. -, - We returned and' dividu*r at
the spa indicated as .the, graVe-Oritial:
fotr,but fonfid our hody:thiareflititattha Oxide
pointed'oa afthe. gravir.where, Col. : Slocum
.Was buried, we found a box which upon
being- faiSect-'and- opened;: •waa , fotind-ta
Aain thated.Of:Golunelliloetua;,,x4'olk.aPl
- who Isad buried the.:twe bfsdiesh were,
satisped that, - the grave whieh-fiado
p
ened . ; 'the ,takeb
burned; • Ishii that )prior.BallOu i l.:becanieit• - „
was not in the Spokiltere" UnloneLSieeum
was-buried but ,raftitirta• - the..:right if
They. at aid SaidTebalis:bidlitade
.a;niistake, Ind hati aikturthebiktYjat Major
Ballotvforl;tliat,.ef
shirt ,couid.nexithe.:placa where the
wins uiiied f `recogi zed : as one isetch?ging 'to
ItaliCn;)
with Nita :guttered ary4lte•-,,,ashesli_n_n
'44kiniagaaPraliZt-404 7:lhat-wer°
left, and put.them t illameifur,;•tegotliei•with
his shirlamigal4rtaket'*itinhe" rai n bft
ta.rt4Pcirt! l 4, 4 gl l 4 Aalifir..Wth4
Oafgoin
dier.lr6iiiihwar4itti,•Tovirgr•Wactiro4lit.-.R
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the bAttiv, !rad' :so.ontt u r,, , Nsit%
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