Show 70 abe following extracts from a letter just received by a member of this command fiola ilia his sister are arc published showing how bow they faro fare abo nabo are arc so 80 unfortunate as to become the inmates of a rebel prison urple ALTON ill III march 1864 dearbra dear De arBro bro 1 I do not feel much like writing being in in so mu much ich trouble ot mind on account of william aitu husband band of the being still tall in prison at richmond with no or of rele release 1 prospect asci so far AS I 1 can co Will william iara did not know anything of col Str straights streights eights escape until after it hid been ac aci i a ai 1 i they viz col st streight and party in another room and no h i c cation is allowed union among the pilson prisoners ers we have headd from william ivillia ni up lip to the 14 th of february at tb that a t time his h health c a ith i was v as go good oil but as the prisoners are only allo weil to u write rite sit it isacs at a time and th i it t only tit tiit k stated tat ed intervals inte intern ryals ils we cin got get but little news ri biorn am them immediately I 1 bale 0 jut juit re id a I 1 letter etter from col streight giving g a an n ate count account of the treatment of the poor captives and it seems to me outrageous that such things have to be endured 11 t mancu 1 Ill I had adjust just gotten to R bog rs came in N ith aletter from her bit husband nd which had been amin smuggled led through gli by SOMO some one who has bad th the e good I 1 tick luck to bo be exchanged 11 he say he a co common with t the he |