Confederate humanity-an incident.
By Rev. Henry M. White, D. D.
The following fact may be worthy of a place in the historical papers of the ‘War between the States,’ and I send it to you as my personal testimony.
It took place under my eye when acting as chaplain in the Army of Northern Virginia.
I say acting, for, although in the service for several years, I never held a commission.
At the battle of Pole Green church, on the 1st day of June, 1864, Lieutenant John W. Diuguid, of the Salem Flying Artillery, was severely wounded in the thigh and taken, with others, to the Central railroad to be sent on to a hospital in Richmond. When I saw those in charge sending off many Federal soldiers and leaving him, I protested because he was a Confederate soldier. Their reply was, ‘our orders are to send on first the most severely wounded, irrespective of uniform.’ He was kept the greater part of a day in the hot sun, and died soon after reaching Richmond.
Very sincerely yours,
