Raynors HCA 2019-01
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Broadside, “The Gettysburg Prisoners. March from Gettysburg to Staunton, 175 Miles... Murder Committed By Rebel Guards...” Annapolis, Maryland, September 28, 1863, 14½ x 6 in., 1 pp. In part, ““At the request of a large number of my fellow Bell Island, prisoners of War, I have written a short sketch from my notes taken on the spot, and have put the same in type. The account imbraces [sic] from the 2nd of July at Gettysburg, Pa., up to September 21st, on Bell Island. The statement is facts only, and not from an imaginary brain….The prisoners taken at Gettysburg, on the 2nd day of the battle, belonged nearly all to the Third Corps…. At 8 o’clock, P.M. July 2nd, four hundred of the Third Corps were marched to the rear and encamped on an elevated piece of ground. A strong guard was placed around the men. No rations were given out….July 4.—The men were now half starved, having eaten nothing since the morning of the 2nd….Our men had to trade off their blankets and even take their shoes off of their feet and give the guards for bread…. Rebel guards used their bayonets on our men getting water and trying to buy bread… Guards taking prisoners money on pretence of buying something for them to eat, but never returning…. At noon, on the 14th of August, Private John Donnelly, 91st, P.V., had on that morning came to the Island. He was standing near the bank that incloses the prisoners. The guard told him to go further back, and D. was in the act of turning to comply with the guards order, when the latter raised his gun and shot him down. This act was a cold blooded murder…. The guard was taken off his post for the day, but in two days was back again ready to shoot more unarmed Yankees.”
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