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The Daily Dispatch: May 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Treatment of Confederate prisoners. (search)
Treatment of Confederate prisoners. Major Charlton H. Morgan, who has just returned from captivity at the North, having been taken by the enemy at Lexington and recently exchanged, confirms the brutal treatment of rebel prisoners at the North, as related by others and heretofore published. He, on account of his fraternal relation to Gen. John H Morgan, was subjected to special indignities. At Camp Chase the prisoners were stripped to the waist in the presence of women and children and roMorgan, was subjected to special indignities. At Camp Chase the prisoners were stripped to the waist in the presence of women and children and robbed of their clothing and money. In passing through Philadelphia the prisoners were attacked by a mob, the boys throwing sand and stones at them, and the women making the most indelicate and insulting demonstrations. At Fort Delaware, where they were confined for a short time, they were put in filthy pens and received two meals a day, the first consisting of crackers and the brackish water of the Delaware, which made half of them sick. The second meal consisted of crackers and tainted meat,
ounts indicate that the morale of the several corps is excellent, and that the men are drilling and are ready to give battle whenever their commander designates the time and place. It seems Gen. Hooker did design crossing the Rappahannock again, according to the plan conceived before his retirement; but General Halleck did not approve the new movement, and it was countermanded. In Kentucky matters are assuming a serious aspect, the rebels being reported in force across the Cumberland. Morgan, with the commands of Forrest and Wheeler, is at Monticello, the espital of Wayne county, 100 miles south from Frankfort. Our forces are confronting the rebels, and we may expect, stirring word from Southern Kentucky in a brief period. Little that is satisfactory has been received from Gen. Grant. He met the rebels, under Gen. Bowen, at Clinton, Miss., and, after a well-fought engagement; defeated and forced them back upon Jackson; but discovering that heavy columns of troops were re