Federal Outrages.
We are informed by some of the
Surgeons who were left in charge of our sick and wounded in
Maryland, after the
battle of Sharpsburg, and who have recently reached this city, that on their arrival at
Fortress Monroe their baggage was rigidly searched, and many articles of clothing taken from their vatican.
Even the letters sent by our dying soldiers to their families in the
South, the implacable hatred of the
Yankee officers withhold and destroyed.
Such conduct is in strong contrast to the treatment received by the
Yankee officers captured at
Harper's Ferry.
Not one article of their private baggage and papers was allowed to be touched, and
Gen. Jackson permitted them to retain the use of some twenty-five or thirty wagons with which to remove their effects within their own lines.
Our Surgeons with whom we have conversed occur in stating that they, as well as our wounded, were well treated and kindly cared for while within the lines of the army commanded by
Gen. McClellan.
Everything that could reasonably be expected was done to mitigate their disagreeable position.--in
Frederick our wounded received much attention from the citizens of the place, many of whom were undisguised in expressions of sympathy for the
South in her struggle.
Several of these Surgeons express the opinion that
Maryland, east of
Frederick, is in feeling and hope, strongly with the
Confederacy.