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The Daily Dispatch: May 7, 1863., [Electronic resource], Brutal regiment of Confederate prisoners — correspondence between Gens. Churchill and Hoffman. (search)
, and money. Gen. T. J. Churchill, commander of our forces at Arkansas Post, was deprived of his each and spare much of his wearing apparel, and spoken to by the ill-mannered guard as though he had been a dog. Colonel Deisbler, who fought so gallantly in Northwestern Virginia, and was severely wounded at the battle of Allegheny Mountain, was deprived of blankets, which he purchased in Texas, and stripped of his pants, the brutes who the act declaring that such articles were contraband. Major Gaines, of Ala., who fought nobly on Peninsula of Virginia, under General Magruder, was made to haul off his shirt in the presence of Yankee women, who chuckled heartily at the sight of a denuded gentleman. Capt. Morgan, a brother of the General, who was taken near Lexington, Ky., was subjected to every conceivable indignity, and when he remonstrated, and stated that Federal prisoners were not so treated by Confederates, was told "to shut his mouth," a d — d Secesh scoundrel if he did not h