| Show 2 rj L fv A facetious letter from junius Judi sll II 11 browne lately appeared appe in the cincinnati times dated military prison salisbury allowan county N C friday afternoon february 19 1864 11 it is beai lya year since since mr browne was taken prisoner prisoner by the debels in the river opposite vicksburg the account lie he gives of tile the prison is is not one that would nv uld attract gentlemen of elegant to it as a first class beardin boarding 9 house the room in which lie is confined is cold decary smoky mr browna bi anc says m we jve have a couple of stoves hero here which compensate sor for the absence of a cat by a perpetual em mission of often so dense densa one can hardly bee across the room and which shuts outtie lit the struggling light from tile the iron babied ban cd windows for several days past it has been deiy cold I have I 1 za 1 1 self in coffon from morning to night iii lit to prevent coagulation of the blood bl by all the iceland deities 1 I I 1 wis in siberia instead ophe sunny south no io word irom from our money or our boxes yet yat tile the withholding of our I 1 boxes in connection with the fact that our rations have rec recently n kiy 1 be cc ome come short is uri foil for those ve not laidely cultivated the science of living without eating aw 1 ruiess 1 afo 0 3 north carolina branch Brah cli live on bread and poi pork k and often bicad bi cad alone with smoke and cold antei sper sea ad we distinguish I 1 breakfast br frond from dinner by 3 anila inha lingi jilji an edtia volume of smoke and taking 0 five additional shivers most adverb naver dy sely for me my appetite lias has increased in an proportion to tb our provender it I 1 manage matters yai Y W ell 0 1 1 become very hungry li I 1 expose myself to the cold and vice vena so one discomfort 1 strangles another and I 1 am enabled tb cont continue the beatitudes of m my bondage who would not no bo be a prisoner prisoner tile smallpox small pox continues its engagement at the prison and still finds a number of boas principally I 1 pine 1 |
