The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1882-11-23

which walkips along, by my legs
giving way from under me, and
was for six long weeks laying up
that | was entirely helpless. They
even had TO feed me with q spoon
and attend me like child, iu the
iifth week. the p,ral ysis affe ,tel m y
lounge, aud lanss, at which time
thought my bones must DO left OF
south soil.
But I have IN extraordinar,
amount OF tenacity Of life, so that
wa, at last enabled 10 cOuut,ract th,
disease, and am to day living
monument OF southern cruelty and
barbarity.
During my jeaond waoll o1 parole
two rebel mail agents came to
Florence, With about thirty thous.
aud letters for the difcront prisons
in the confeleracy. As tho prison
ers had been SHIFTED around &c
much since their imprisonment, II
was impossible to tell exactly where
to tako those letters to,.
/ was set to work to holp distri.
butte these letters. aud look up The
names on the register Often the
persons would be found to be dead
whcroupon Colonel instructed me To
write to their friends, informing
them Of the sad fact.
While thus at work, il had mover
occurred to me that there might b.
lettorst for myself, until | came to
two addressed ts-aaet- -.Thcso letters
informed me that all my friend,
were well, aud though they were
rather old, they encouraged tue, aud
thereby relieved many auxioties.
Certainly, thought 1, if FORUM,
favors in this manner, shall get
out Of prison before the war is over
Receiving these letters revived pas
sionate lonsinss for home aud
friends, which had been crushed for
months under the accommodating
miseries and mere struggle for foot
hold upon life.
The Office where I wrote and
lodged was the quarters Of Lieut..
Col. Iversop, which | have once de-
sciibed in these pages. Paper was
q scarce commodity, and we were
not expetsed to make u very gener-
Gus use OF il.
Reynolds tho rebel Adjutant, hal
before the war boeu u cashier in II
bank. lie was very kind to his
Yankee boys, as he termed us. and
was quite an able business man.
Tho Adjutant had taken most of the
young boys, from the prison, and
put them into camp by themselves,
providing them with much better ra-
tions than the stockadc prisoners
got.
In this manner, about one hum
dred boys, from twelve to fifteen
years age, were cared for, he was
generous man. lie had one or two
iue-lookiDg fellows arsund tho office
whom he made great pets OF.
The Adjutant was very droll aud
humorous sometimes. and was never
30 happy as when he could g,t Frank
Hoif and another Yankee boy at
laucing, or singing negro or comic
songs.
Ho bravely told the women down
n the village, that these boys were
Yankee girls, aud at one timo he so
himbagged them into
he belief, that, prompted by culi)s-
Ity, these Secesh danes or fools ono
one day made visit to the prison
and commenced quiz
ling the Adjutant about his suppos.
ID girls, whom he, who had instruct
ID the boys what to say, had their
lair parted in tho middle, and intro-
iuced them at tho headquarters.
The women asked the boys "Be
'ou Yankee girls ?" "Yes. ma una,
vas the answer. "Nhe DO youens
top at nights p 20 right in here
With tbs Adjutant" Whereupop
Zach Secesh dame took her snuff
stick, which sho had sat chewing,
rom her mouth, aud sat in blank
Imazement, aud when the Adjutaut
vas out, said among themselves,
This Reynolds is a dreffel man"
These women afterwards wished
o look over the stockade at the
prisoners, and were 80 lost to all
christian feeling aud decency as to
ay, as they saw the emaciatod forms
II human bodies i'm tha nr;aon