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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letters on the treatment and exchange of prisoners. (search)
l J. G. Foster, U. S. A., Commanding Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C. [Unofficial.]Charleston, S. C., July 1, 1864. Genefive General officers of the Confederate service have arrived at Hilton Head, with a view to their being subjected to the same treatment thatjor-General J. G. Foster, Commanding Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C. Charleston, S. C., July 1, 1864. Brigadier-General L. Thomal J. G. Foster, U. S. V., Commanding Department of the South, Hilton Head, S. C. Hdrs. Department South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, Charl To Major-General J. G. Foster, Commanding United States Forces, Hilton Head. Hdrs. Department South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, Charles To Major-General J. G. Foster, Commanding United States Forces, Hilton Head. Hdrs. Department South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, Charlesservant, Sam. Jones, Major-General Commanding. To Major-General J. G. Foster, Commanding U. S. Forces, Department of the South, Hilton Head.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 3.19 (search)
on the face or person, causing some injury or hurt; but no one gets angry at the unintentional blow, and the note is promptly delivered to the party addressed. The notes from the privates abound in complaints against Schoepff, Ahl, Wolfe and their guards, and of great scarcity of rations. Their treatment must be hard and cruel. March 13th to 15th About 100 officers and 1,000 men have been sent off for exchange, and 500 officers arrived from Fort Pulaski, near Savannah, and Hilton Head, South Carolina. These sickly, limping, miserable looking men were chosen from the prisoners last August to be sent to Sullivan's Island near Charleston, and placed under fire of the Confederate batteries, in retaliation, it was said, for the placing of Federal prisoners in the city under the fire of the Yankee batteries. The Yankees had been shelling the city,. killing women and children, and the Confederate General, to put a stop to such brutality, threatened to expose his prisoners to the fi
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 3. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 4.29 (search)
good as could be expected in a place conducted without regard to system, and where the patients are under the charge of such young and totally inexperienced physicians. At the head of each bunk or bed a card is suspended against the the wall, having on it the name and rank of the patient, character of his disease, and number of his bed. Corn mush, without salt or milk, composed my supper. March 21st Meals are quite scanty in quantity and uninviting in quality, and the officers from Hilton Head and Fort Pulaski, afflicted with scurvy, are constantly complaining of hunger, and wishing for meal hour to arrive. Mush made of yellow corn meal is the usual supper. The poor fellows suffering from scurvy are a sad sight, as they walk in their hospital garb of shirt and drawers (which are oftentimes either too large and long, or too tight and short for the wearers), from their beds to the stove. Their legs and feet are so drawn as to compel them to walk on tiptoe, their heels being un