The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1861-12-04
urr IN A RICHMOND PRISON.


The Indianapolis Joayadi publishes tho I'd.
lowing interesting private letter,
hcnmoNp, Va, Tuesday, Nov. ~, 1861.
M DrNR FAruER-llcaring that flag Of
truce viii soon go over TO Fort Monroe, take
tho opportunity Of sending few lincs.
II Il about < A. NJ, anil IA | cuat nv owe
down the long room, divided by u row OF tobac-
co presses into two, (ono side for eating ard the
other for slccI ing) see abound me representa-.
uvcs oi almost every state In tho Union. Some
Arc anNiously examining tho morning papers
others Just getting up from their beds on the
ilonr, 1T lalily scratching and yawning, ~
though they dreaded the days work before
thom: One half have already begun to draw
consolation from that comforter of half the
world niiscry-tohacco. Some Of tho officer
are Walking rcstlessly up and down the room,
with gloomy faces and heavy steps. Col. Colts.
well Ia now walking towards mo- A finer look.
ing man, Drawer soldier, and Il moro ablo com.
mnnhcr the United States has not lost durn,
the war. His noble conduct at Locsbursh did
honor to his country and his native state.
Lieut.. Hart (latc Quarternaster Of the 10Th In
disna, and from Fountain County, believed IL
reading the paper twitching ami mo, ing ner
Nously, AMI turning various colOrs at every al
fusion to ropes dungeons, &C.
Alfred Ely, Eq.,-tho IomtiI- of tho pri
ION, always TOW inR and scaping 10 Confederate
officials, iluttering and trembling at every hint
at swinging him up, which tho daily papers lik
to sponk OTIS Just now sitting down 70 his
coffee bccisteak, potatoes, toast and butter IL,
| eats in hurried, anxious manner, as II he fear
| cd some thin-iaccd, hungry f How prisoner, who
cannot procure such luAurics, would ask him
| for a moiscl.
Tho steward, of tho various mes4cs are max
ing u great chatter among tho tin cups anr
| plates, ~ must lay aside my lettcr until
have eaten my raiion4 Of bread and meat.
| Yesterday wo dIcw lots to see who should bt
| held as I, Ions for tho ptva'ecrsmcn now in New
| in New York. Il fell TO Colonel .Corcoran, o
| the Sixty-Nlnth New York, to answer for Baker
| already condemned in Philadelphia. lilo will
immediately DO put in irons and treated AZ a
fclon. Col. Cogswcll Is also held too with four
other coloncls,' three majors aud thirteen cap
tuns, all Ia bo treated as tho privatoorsmcr
are, as soon as their cases arc decided Thus
yousoc things are looking little uncomfortable
but We take 1t calmly, for wo never expected
any other treatment, and IL hang Is tho order
hang We must.
We have about sovcnty.fye officers now In
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS taken at I.oeshurgh
with six hundred priyatcs. The rebels call tina,
battlc (at Leesburghl "Iull Run, with varia-
tons think all tho prisoners are in very
good health, considering their numbers and clos,
confinement. They have ~ much to eat as /,
good for them, and do not, "a yet, suffer from
the cold. All arc now furnished with one quilt
fear some Of the northern papers hAvo oxig
gcratcd the suilcrngs Of prisoners here. Tha
they have mono of the rights of war IA truo but
still, as soldiers, they can live very well with
out. hope the cries of the restless of the North
ahout tho poor prfUntrs in the tohacco-house,
Of Richmond viii not shake tho policy OF oui
government, or drive II into any has'y action
| know some whe arc willing to rot 10 prison
grow gray In dungeons, or wear chains a life
time, or die any death, rather than have an OK
change that would do harm to tho cause, or .bc
humlliating TO our country.
All the poor towards, who are hcartsick, and
want TO give up everything, will never DO OF
any use TO any country or government, and are
rs we'll out Of tho way