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Wade Hampton (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 159
awn too tight, and some of the bones protruded. A man by the name of Prescott (the same referred to in the testimony of Surgeon Homiston) was amputated twice, and was then, I think, moved to Richmond before the taps were healed. Prescott died under this treatment. I heard a rebel doctor on the steps below my room say, that he wished he could take out the hearts of the d — d Yankees as easily as he could take off their legs. Some of the Southern gentlemen treated me very handsomely. Wade Hampton, who was opposed to my battery, came to see me and behaved like a generous enemy. It appears, as a part of the history of this rebellion, that Gen. Ricketts was visited by his wife, who, having first heard that he was killed in battle, afterwards that he was alive but wounded, travelled under great difficulties to Manassas to see her husband. He says: She had almost to fight her way through, but succeeded finally in reaching me on the fourth day after the battle. There were eight pe
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 159
ith agony. An officer rode up, and, placing his pistol to his head, threatened to shoot him if he continued to scream. This was on Sunday, the day of the battle. One of the most important witnesses was Gen. James B. Ricketts, well known in Washington and throughout the country, lately promoted for his daring and self-sacrificing courage. After having been wounded in the battle of Bull Run, he was captured, and as he lay helpless on his back, a party of rebels passing him cried out: Knock oty. Revolting as these disclosures are, it was when the committee came to examine witnesses in reference to the treatment of our heroic dead that the fiendish spirit of the rebel leaders was most prominently exhibited. Daniel Bixby, Jr., of Washington, testifies that he went out in company with G. A. Smart, of Cambridge, Mass., who went to search for the body of his brother, who fell at Blackburn's Ford in the action of the eighteenth of July. They found the grave. The clothes were identif
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 159
nce with regard to the barbarous treatment by the rebels, at Manassas, of the remains of officers and soldiers of the United States killed in battle there; and that the said select committee also inquire into the fact whether the Indian savages have been employed by the rebels, in their military service, against the Government of the United States, and how such warfare has been conducted by said savages. In pursuance of the instructions contained in this resolution, your committee have the Our fellow-countrymen, heretofore sufficiently impressed by the generosity and forbearance of the Government of the United States, and the barbarous character of the crusade against it, will be shocked by the statements of these unimpeached and unthe Senate, whether Indian savages have been employed by the rebels in military service against the Government of the United States, and how such warfare has been conducted by the said savages, but that they have taken the proper steps to attend to
Darby (search for this): chapter 159
ld bacon was grudgingly given to them. When, at last, they were permitted to go to the relief of our wounded, the secession surgeon would not allow them to perform operations, but intrusted the wounded to his young assistants, some of them with no more knowledge of what they attempted to do than an apothecary's clerk. And further, that these inexperienced surgeons performed operations upon our men in a most horrible manner, some of them were absolutely frightful. When, he adds, I asked Doctor Darby to allow me to amputate the leg of Corporal Prescott, of our regiment, and said that the man must die if it were not done, he told me that I should be allowed to do it. While Dr. Homiston was waiting, he says a secessionist came through the room and said: They are operating upon one of the Yankee's legs up-stairs. I went up and found that they had cut off Prescott's leg. The assistants were pulling on the flesh at each side, trying to get flap enough to cover the bone. They had sawed o
J. M. Homiston (search for this): chapter 159
The perpetrator of this foul murder was subsequently promoted by the rebel government. Dr. J. M. Homiston, surgeon of the Fourteenth New-York or Brooklyn regiment, captured at Bull Run, testifies at the man must die if it were not done, he told me that I should be allowed to do it. While Dr. Homiston was waiting, he says a secessionist came through the room and said: They are operating upon oeenth New-York regiment, who was taken prisoner at Sudley's Church, confirms the statement of Dr. Homiston in regard to the brutal operations on Corporal Prescott. He also states that after he himselbones protruded. A man by the name of Prescott (the same referred to in the testimony of Surgeon Homiston) was amputated twice, and was then, I think, moved to Richmond before the taps were healed.t our wounded had been very badly treated. In confirmation of the testimony of Dr. Swalm and Dr. Homiston, this witness avers that Mr. Lewis mentioned a number of instances of men who had been murder
Ballou (search for this): chapter 159
ct in visiting the battle-field was to recover the bodies of Col. Slocum and Major Ballou, of the Rhode Island regiment. He took out with him several of his own men place he states that: We commenced digging for the bodies of Col. Slocum and Major Ballou at the spot pointed out to us by these men who had been in the action. Whil body there. We returned and dug down at the spot indicated as the grave of Major Ballou, but found no body there; but at the place pointed out as the grave where Cowhich had been opened, the body taken out, beheaded, and burned, was that of Major Ballou, because it was not in the spot where Col. Slocum was buried, but rather to y at once said that the rebels had made a mistake, and had taken the body of Major Ballou for that of Col. Slocum. The shirt found near the place where the body was burned I recognised as one belonging to Major Ballou, as I had been very intimate with him. We gathered up the ashes containing the portion of his remains that were l
James B. Ricketts (search for this): chapter 159
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
Cyrus Wilcox (search for this): chapter 159
tle. There were eight persons in the Lewis House, at Manassas, in the room where I lay, and my wife, for two weeks, slept in that room, on the floor by my side, without a bed. When we got to Richmond there were six of us in a room, among them Col. Wilcox, who remained with us until he was taken to Charleston. There we were all in one room. There was no door to it. It was much as it would be here if you should take off the doors of this committee-room, and then fill the passage with wounded soldiers. In the hot summer months the stench from their wounds, and from the utensils they used, was fearful. There was no privacy at all, because there being no door, the room could not be closed. We were there as a, common show. Col. Wilcox and myself were objects of interest, and were gazed upon as if we were a couple of savages. The people would come in there and say all sorts of things to us and about us, until I was obliged to tell them that I was a prisoner, and had nothing to say.
Louis Francis (search for this): chapter 159
tenth of November, I was selected as one of the hostages. I heard, he continues, of a great many of our prisoners who had been bayoneted and shot. I saw three of them--two that had been bayoneted, and one of them shot. One was named Louis Francis, of the New-York Fourteenth. He had received fourteen bayonet wounds--one through his privates — and he had one wound very much like mine, on the knee, in consequence of which his leg was amputated after twelve weeks had passed; and I would returned; but they never were. There is one debt, says this gallant soldier, that I desire very much to pay, and nothing troubles me so much now as the fact that my wounds prevent me from entering upon active service at once. The case of Louis Francis, who was terribly wounded and maltreated, and lost a leg, is referred to by Gen. Ricketts; but the testimony of Francis himself is startling. He was a private in the New-York Fourteenth regiment. He says: I was attacked by two rebel s
Chairman (search for this): chapter 159
ple of the loyal States. They should inspire these people to renewed exertions to protect our country from the restoration to power of such men. They should, and we believe they will, arouse the disgust and horror of foreign nations against this unholy rebellion. Let it be ours to furnish, nevertheless, a continued contrast to such barbarities and crimes. Let us persevere in the good work of maintaining the authority of the Constitution, and of refusing to imitate the monstrous practices we have been called upon to investigate. Your committee beg to say, in conclusion, that they have not yet been enabled to gather testimony in regard to the additional inquiry suggested by the resolution of the Senate, whether Indian savages have been employed by the rebels in military service against the Government of the United States, and how such warfare has been conducted by the said savages, but that they have taken the proper steps to attend to this important duty. B. F. Wade, Chairman,
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