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 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, cooked with garlic to disguise its putridity. On the way to Camp Chase the most insulting treatment received was from the East Tennessee renegade soldiery.
