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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. (search)
Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. Johnson's Island, the new Yankee prison, not heard of till lately in the Confederate States, is thus described in the Chicago Tribune: This beautiful island, which the rebels and the Copperheads call "Lincoln's Bastile," is situated in the bosom of Lake Erie, near the west end, and in full view of Sandusky city, Ohio. Immediately after the commencement of the war the United States rented thirty acres of land lying southwest and facing upon the bay, at an annual cost of $690, during the continuance of the rebellion. They then enclosed fourteen acres with a board fence fourteen feet high, erecting within two rows of barracks which, with other buildings, officers' and soldiers' quarters, hospital and commissary accommodations, cost $40,000. By the side of the fence, four feet from the top, a platform is erected, four feet wide, that is patrolled by sentinels continually.--The number upon it is eighteen, who are re
The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Charleston. (search)
nowing full well that we did not recognize them as prisoners of war, and that we had refused to do so, or even to recognize a flag of truce-accompanied by a white officer commanding a negro regiment. Last week, however, Gen. Gilmore addressed a note to Gen. Beauregard, of a most objectionable character, charging him with bad faith in not having sent back the negro prisoners, and making a demand for them, threatening, at the same time, to put in execution the retaliatory proclamation of Lincoln, of the 30th July last, declaring that he will execute a rebel soldier for every Yankee, white or black, killed in violation of the laws of war (!), and put at hard labor on the public works a rebel for every negro sold or detained in slavery. I learn that Gen. Beauregard has made a very dignified and severe reply to this most impudent demand, showing the want of good faith to be entirely on the part of Gen. Gilmore, who could not plead ignorance either of President Davis's proclamation or
The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Affairs at Charleston. (search)
Number of Yankees. --There are now confined in the Confederate prisons of this city 4,822 Yankees, captured in all quarters awaiting an exchange. Many of these men profess to be tired of the war and the present Federal Administration, but they do not think that peace will be restored as long as Lincoln and the Black Republican party are in power.