Eighteen Months a Prisoner Under the Rebel Flag a Condensed Pen Picture of Bell
Eighteen Months a Prisoner Under the Rebel Flag a Condensed Pen Picture of Bell
Samuel S Boggs
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The Georgians were ignorant and brutal, and seemed to delight in sliooting and torturing the prisoners. It was a 26th Alabamian who shot Hubbard, the one-legged man just s})oken of, for which he was not to blame. Hubbard violated orders in crossing the 'Mead-line, " and refused to go back when ordered. Had it been a 55th Georgian he would not have been warned, but shot down without a word. The Alabamians would talk to us from their posts, while the Georgians were liable to shoot if we spoke to ...them. There were some other Rebel troops garrisoned here, but I do not know what regiments. , There were in the pen about two hundred colored soldiers of the 8th \ U. S. Regulars, captured at Oolustee, Fla. , in March; there were a \ number of them wounded. One fellow had a hand shot off, and some j enraged brutes had cut off his ears and nose, and otherwise mutilated t L UNDER THE REBEL FLAG. 27 hifn. The doctors refused to dress his wounds, or even amputate his shattered arm; he was naked in the prison, and finally died from his numerous wounds.
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