. Sufferings endured for a free government; . en that when let loose he would not beable tospeak for many days. In many instances theprisoners would be bucked and gagged at the sametime, thereby the torture became almost unindurable. Vaccination.—This torture was one of the mostdamnable of tortures that fiends could devise. As theprocess of vaccination is known to almost every per-son it is useless to explain it here. Suffer me to saythat all the prisoners were ordered by Wirz to endurethis torture. If any of the prisoners refused theywere immediately put into the stocks or chain gang,and kept
. Sufferings endured for a free government; . en that when let loose he would not beable tospeak for many days. In many instances theprisoners would be bucked and gagged at the sametime, thereby the torture became almost unindurable. Vaccination.—This torture was one of the mostdamnable of tortures that fiends could devise. As theprocess of vaccination is known to almost every per-son it is useless to explain it here. Suffer me to saythat all the prisoners were ordered by Wirz to endurethis torture. If any of the prisoners refused theywere immediately put into the stocks or chain gang,and kept there until they consented to submit to un-dergo the process of vaccination. It is well knownthat the art of vaccination has in all preceding agesbeen used for a blessing to mankind, but in this casethe villain used the rankest of poison, thus reversingthis humanly intended purpose, making it a curse, andcausing the most excruciating tortures. The surgeons would congregate together in theevening and exult over the number of prisoners that. Private CHARLES R. WOODWORTII,Company G, 8th Michigan Cavalry, Admitted from Flag-of-truceboat, April 18th, 1864.—Wests Building Hospital, Baltimore, Md. 51 ANDELSONVILLE PRISON. 323 each had poisoned during the day by vaccination, say-ing that the} had been ordered by Wirz to do it, andthey were in for killing or disabling as many of thed d Yankees as possible. This vaccination pro-duced different results ; on some it would create sores(such as are produced by the disease itself) on theirbodies and under their arms as large as a mans others the flesh would rot all round the placewhere the vaccine was inserted, gangreen would veryoften set in, and then the arm of the prisoner wouldhave to be amputated. Vincent Halley, of the 72d New York volunteers,saw, at one time, one hundred and fifty cases wheregangreen had set in ; he remarks, that the sores ontheir bodies were awful to behold. Samuel Andrews, saw men who had become insanefr
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