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Savannah (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
n days. Every day, continues Mr. Keiley, we saw coffins going over the sides of the other ships. On the Atlantic alone were forty deaths during our stay in the harbor—a stay obviously unnecessary and therefore shamefully cruel, since it compelled the confinement of hundreds of sick men in the filthy and unventilated holds of the vessels, without proper food, medicine, or attendance. Captain Grey, of the Atlantic, protested loudly against its inhumanity. Arrived at length at Savannah, Ga., they were landed amid the enthusiastic welcome of the populace, and here found the Richmond ambulance corps awaiting them—that excellent institution which rendered service alike to the suffering of both armies. A full corroboration. It will be noted that in this account is a corroboration of all that is charged by Dr. Wyeth in his mention of the treatment of Confederate prisoners at Camp Morton—i. e., the criminal neglect of the sick; their starvation, where every species of food<
Newtown (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
lusive evidence. Horrors of Point Lookout and Elmira as witnessed and experienced by Hon. A. M. Kei the northern prison-pens of Point Lookout and Elmira. Perhaps some extracts from its pages may sersand prisoners here penned were transported to Elmira, Mr. Keiley being of the number. Embarking, Systematic Inhumanity. The prison-pen at Elmira was divided by a stagnant piece of water or lane thousand six hundred and seven prisoners at Elmira. The most scandalous neglect, says Mr. Keileyfive hundred Confederate prisoners who were at Elmira the 1st of September, three hundred and eighty thirty-six thousand, or one thirty-sixth. At Elmira it was three hundred and eighty-six out of ninhundred, or one twenty-fifth of the whole. At Elmira it was four per cent.; at Andersonville, less at Andersonville had been as great as that at Elmira the deaths should have been one thousand four during the last month and a half of my stay at Elmira, and transferred the figures to my diary, whic
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
serable, helpless, hopeless wretches I never saw, and yet I have seen more than one consignment of Federal prisoners on their way home. Several died between their parole and the day of departure. Seven dead on the train. We arrived in Baltimore with seven dead men on the train, and left in Baltimore a number whose condition was such that their further progress would have been certain death— one, a gray-haired old man, who there died. They had to be landed at Point Lookout to await Baltimore a number whose condition was such that their further progress would have been certain death— one, a gray-haired old man, who there died. They had to be landed at Point Lookout to await further consignments of prisoners for exchange. And here a plank was stretched from the side of the ship to the dock, and down this shoot the poor, helpless, maimed creatures were slid like coal into a vault. They were turned into their former pen, where they found a scanty supply of tents, and, after some days, a scanty supply of straw. The water was scant, the rations scant, and all this for men just taken out of the hospital, condemned thus to sleep on the bare ground with insufficient
Point Lookout, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
Dr. Wyeth's charges sustained by the most Conclusive evidence. Horrors of Point Lookout and Elmira as witnessed and experienced by Hon. A. M. Keiley. I obsethe war, and when he was but just released from the northern prison-pens of Point Lookout and Elmira. Perhaps some extracts from its pages may serve to render Dr. Wly before the affair of the Crater, and with other prisoners hurried off to Point Lookout, situated at the mouth of the Potomac. This famous prison-pen consisted of prison philanthropist, gives a documentary statement that the prisoners at Point Lookout were supplied with vegetables, with the best of wheaten bread, and fresh anfalsity. For my part, I never saw any one get enough of anything to eat at Point Lookout except of the soup, one spoonful of which was too much for ordinary digestith— one, a gray-haired old man, who there died. They had to be landed at Point Lookout to await further consignments of prisoners for exchange. And here a plank
Hampton Roads (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
y of tents, and, after some days, a scanty supply of straw. The water was scant, the rations scant, and all this for men just taken out of the hospital, condemned thus to sleep on the bare ground with insufficient food and clothing. Here they remained until the number for exchange sent from various points amounted to five thousand, when they were all re-embarked in three ships and sent South, first having all their blankets and every extra coat or pair of pants taken from them. In Hampton Roads they were detained ten days. Every day, continues Mr. Keiley, we saw coffins going over the sides of the other ships. On the Atlantic alone were forty deaths during our stay in the harbor—a stay obviously unnecessary and therefore shamefully cruel, since it compelled the confinement of hundreds of sick men in the filthy and unventilated holds of the vessels, without proper food, medicine, or attendance. Captain Grey, of the Atlantic, protested loudly against its inhumanity.
Sanger (search for this): chapter 21
oon, the miasma arising from which rendered it necessary for eight or ten hospitals to be built. Yet the head surgeon, Dr. Sanger, would sign no report which ascribed to this cause the death of a patient; consequently the lagoon remained undisturbed, and the frightful mortality continued. The better class of officers were loud and indignant in their reproaches of Dr. Sanger's systematic inhumanity to the prisoners, and they affirmed that he avowed his determination to stint these poor, helpleshe hospital complained to his comrades that he could get nothing to eat, and was dying in consequence. They got leave (Dr. Sanger not being consulted) to buy him some potatoes, and when these were roasted and brought him the poor creatures in the nethis with pure air, healthy location, good water, no epidemic. The men are being deliberately murdered by the surgeon (Dr. Sanger). Of fourteen men in Dr. Martin's section twelve are dead; of seventeen in Dr. Graham's section fourteen have died a
John A. Wyeth (search for this): chapter 21
Prison-Pens North. [from the dispatch, June 21, 1891.] Dr. Wyeth's charges sustained by the most Conclusive evidence. Horrors of Point Lookout and Elmira as witnessed and experienced by Hon. A. M. Keiley. I observe that various northern papers, in discussing Dr. Wyeth's recent Century article on the treatment of Confederate prisoners at Camp Morton, deny the truth of his statement on the ground of its appearance at so late a date since the war. I have now before me a little booed from the northern prison-pens of Point Lookout and Elmira. Perhaps some extracts from its pages may serve to render Dr. Wyeth's statements less startling and incredible to those who have hitherto heard only of the horrors of southern war prisonsarmies. A full corroboration. It will be noted that in this account is a corroboration of all that is charged by Dr. Wyeth in his mention of the treatment of Confederate prisoners at Camp Morton—i. e., the criminal neglect of the sick; their
George Washington (search for this): chapter 21
rom their ward to the hospital, as death is almost certain to supervene. As I went over to the hospital this morning quite early there were eighteen dead bodies lying naked on the bare earth. Eleven more were added to the list by half past 11 o'clock. In October the weather grew bitterly cold, and the men, especially the thousands who were lying on the ground in open tents, began to suffer severely, being mostly quite destitute of necessary clothing. At length an order came from Washington that a list of prisoners should be made out for exchange, consisting of those only who, by reason of age, sickness, or wounds, would be unfit for service for sixty days. Some fifteen hundred were chosen as unfit for duty for sixty days, being one-sixth of the whole; and on the morning of October 19, 1864, these were ordered to assemble for parole. A harrowing spectacle. Says Mr. Keiley: I speak in all reverence when I say that I do not believe that such a spectacle was ever before
A. M. Keiley (search for this): chapter 21
Elmira as witnessed and experienced by Hon. A. M. Keiley. I observe that various northern pape a little book (In Vinculis) written by Hon. A. M. Keiley and published in Richmond before the cloy of the horrors of southern war prisons. Mr. Keiley was captured near Petersburg shortly before e time it was hardtack and fat pork only. Mr. Keiley writes: Miss Dix, the northern prison philanners here penned were transported to Elmira, Mr. Keiley being of the number. Embarking, he says, food. In regard to the scarcity of food, Mr. Keiley says: It often happened that the same manays. Of the brutal treatment of prisoners Mr. Keiley gives the following instances: A sick e detained ten days. Every day, continues Mr. Keiley, we saw coffins going over the sides ohooting down without cause of innocent men. Major Keiley is too well known at the North, as well as man treatment of the Confederate prisoners. Mr. Keiley significantly adds, He was not molested. S. [2 more...]
Jr. Hale (search for this): chapter 21
a mob of starving Rebs besieging the bone-cart and begging of the driver fragments on which the August sun had been burning for several days. Of the brutal treatment of prisoners Mr. Keiley gives the following instances: A sick boy having inadvertently stepped across a mark made by one of the officials, he was compelled to leap back and forth across it until he fell exhausted. Another brute would lay about him with a tent-pole among the crippled and helpless prisoners. A man named Hale, one of the Stonewall brigade, having refused to compromise others by telling where he had obtained a little whiskey, instead of the usual confinement in the guard-house, had his thumbs tied together behind his back and the rope drawn up across a beam overhead until his whole weight rested upon them, causing excruciating agony. Still refusing to peach, he was gagged with a piece of wood, and struck in the face with an oaken billet, which knocked out his front teeth and covered his face with
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