Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-06-06
Very Respectfully,

JOuS Ds0UGa.
From Tho Philadelphia Press we copy
tte fallowiug extract from letter written
by De. Wallace, of that city, relative to
the condition OF Union prisoners lately
released from Riekmond:
saw one young man who had been a
prisoner in the ha 1ds Of the rebels for,
tbiak, seven months. He had htea reless-
ed about month before saw him. Up
GA his entrance into the hospital ihe
nurse and the surgeon both gssurei me
t5st his foTesTm was rl;u that IL was
! transparent between the bones Hhan held
| Up 10 the sunlight. Certain i il That
have never seen moro emaciaied human
| form, whether alive or dead, and yet he
| said that he was gaining flesh and strength
| every day What must he have been one
month before I saw him2 for at this time
be oogld not change rs position in bed
Hithrut assistance.
I nov qloic fro7a the lips of two Of those
| with whom cor versed:
lst Private J >k-ol Rrosbers aged
| tw nty years, six fest one inch high,
Company D, 60 Indiana Mounied To-
fsEtry. was eaptarel Deceater lG.
1868, was Two months on Bell Isle: had
piece often full OF h lies 10 sleep under.
and half Of hair cost for my bed it was
given to me by The guard that was all
hai 10 keep me OF the ground the water
csme in through the piece oftcnt that was
over me, and wet me through; the rebels
6d a6s s p p6ey Sna tGuS el eRa gSX.i me
two wool blankets and overooat; bai
meat three times 6 day while on Bsile
lsle; no more was hungry slI the time
fer about two months; lad no food but
cora bread" (Of the size referred 10 above)
4 got thinner and weaker every day, I'M
I'll ny stomach gase out in tW1 months.
Eaen lost my appetite, aud then the
weakness came, Oh, so bsd, g.
bad Well, / had 10 eat my corn
bread, or die; so l nibbIei n liEle
n0w Gad ther, and ohsRed it up, and got
some d3Hn. but IL sickened ne, aud then
osme the diar' heI My weight was rs
pounds when ] Joined the army, two
years sgo, aad got coed deal heavier
and stronger, for | wss never sick in lie
army. might have weighed 1s5 uuds
"ken | was csptu' ed ! have been get
ting stronger and heavier ever since
cane into this hospital, on the 24h Of
March, 1864"
carried this man 'own stairs in nv |
arms, for he could not walk without sup
port, spd [ weighed him May 10; bis |
weight was 1854 pounds. lis his picture |
| sead you Il was skeu by my diIe,tion
sDd in my presence.
Second Corpor i - Il suppross the
Usme lest this might meet h.s uoiser's
sye) "Iwss captured in September, IS g;
was on Belle Isle only six days; b "a no
shelter there; lad in the dew aud frost,
and suffered with cold, for the rebels had
-sken sway my oiolo'h and blanket, aud
had no covering at all; 1 had smallpox
"a prison in December; | had summer
,loihes on when | was captured, aad wore
hem all the time, right through TIE small
boz; when | get vel Of tie smallpox [
washed my c'otbesi | came here, in the
lsme olo hes, on ,he , of Nay
This poor fellow was so shIi7sled that
lis face looked like III d Of an spe. Il
vss scanned nd wrinklea and il fo.ds.
lsi his picture taken he asked ma for
me, l promised it 10 him, and iaquiFed
sbat be wanted it forl He lrem5led,
,boked with emotion, ealmed h mseigGgsin
Iujvsred, and as the tears gU-hed RON
ais eyes, said: $40 send it to ny moth
ri"
ITej oioed when found that iha pioiura
vas failure, for sight of that face in
'icture really believe, might have killed
us mother or tur- eli her brain.
The pictures which Mr.. Riroh has. o.
gbiah l received, arc from - "a
worst oases, OF the ono hr- Long The
& in bad condition" =. drei Who came
hospital. IL on the u inst, 10 the
we're .-e man Broshers is in fair
se condition of q very large nunber
Of that unfortunate one hundred,