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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 159 (search)
One of the most important witnesses was Gen. James B. Ricketts, well known in Washington and throughout th the day after the battle, he was told that his (Gen. Ricketts's) treatment would depend upon the treatment extthe prisoners were treated is fully confirmed by Gen. Ricketts. He himself, while in prison, subsisted mainly is gun on the window-sill while he capped it. Gen. Ricketts, in reference to his having been held as one of as a part of the history of this rebellion, that Gen. Ricketts was visited by his wife, who, having first heardked, if she washed, how she got there. Finally, Mrs. Ricketts appealed to the officer in charge, and told him poke to several gentlemen about this, and so did Mrs. Ricketts. They said, of course, the carriage and horses nd maltreated, and lost a leg, is referred to by Gen. Ricketts; but the testimony of Francis himself is startlir the battle of Bull Run coolly proposed to hold Gen. Ricketts as a hostage for one of the murderous privateers