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Title: United States bonds; or Duress by federal authority: a journal of current events during an imprisonment of fifteen months, at Fort Delaware
Year: 1874 ( 1870s)
Authors: Handy, Isaac W. K., 1815-1878
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons Fort Delaware (Del.)
Publisher: Baltimore, Turnbull Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rson has received an intimation, that through anarrangement effected for the exchange of Chaplains, he will beallowed to leave for Richmond, on to-morrow. A valuable lot of files, pearls, sets, and other materials(such as are used by our prison jewellers), was put into myhands for distribution, as the donation of a benevolent me-chanic in Philadelphia. They were handed over to Lucas,Stevens, .Atwood, Floyd, and others, who supplied themselvesas they wished, and the remainder were sent to the ring-makersat the barracks. Saturday, 10th.—Having prepared a long letter, last night,to be sent by Mr. Frierson to my children at the South, Ihastened over to the Generals office in company with CaptainBall, who also had a letter for Richmond, to have them exam-ined—nothing doubting, and rejoicing in so direct an oppor-tunity. The Captain, in his haste, was the first to approachthe Commandant; and being the first, also, to be refused,saved my sensitive nature an indignant rebuff. He was hold-
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DURESS BY FEDERAL AUTHORITY. 165 ing up the letter, and proceeding with his request, when theGeneral, without waiting to hear, turned red in the face, andrepelled him immediately, with the crusty sentence : I knownothing about it—take it to the clerk. I cant attend to it.Thus the old gentleman was compelled to retire, chagrined anddisappointed. Noticing this rough treatment, as I stood inthe door, only a few yards off, I turned with disgust from thescene, to seek another channel of communication, and regret-ting a promise by which I had committed myself to send noletters by the underground route. It was a pleasure to me,however, to be able to get off eight or ten religious journals, ofthe latest dates, for my friend, the Rev. Dr. Converse, of Rich-mond ; and several other gentlemen — who were under nopledge to the contrary — availed themselves of the opportu-nity to forward their unexamined epistles. A novel sight was presented, to-day, in the evacuation ofthe barracks, and the

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