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The Daily Dispatch: March 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], A torture-pen in New York City. (search)
ty. --The New York World gives the following description of a torture- pen in that city: It may surprise some of our staid and generous-hearted citizens to know that for some weeks past a torture pen, worse than the Black Hole of Calcutta, and equaled only by the most at horrent cells and dungeons of the ancient requisitions of Spain, has been in full operation in the very "eye of the city" of New York, immediately in front of the City Hall, and within a few rods of the statue of Washington. In this place fifty eight soldiers were confined and suffering last night, and the absolute misery of their condition can hardly be imagined, even by the few who have seen them. That part of the Park Barracks built on Park Row, has been used by the Provost Marshal for some time past for the confinement of deserters and discharged prisoners under military rule. Near the Broadway end of it a portion has been boarded and partitioned up so as to make a perfect cage, twenty feet and tw