From the Richmond
Dispatch, 8/22/1861, p. 3
LETTER FROM A
PRISONER AT RICHMOND
Lieut. James Gannon, of the
New York
69th Regiment, who is now a prisoner in Richmond, in a letter to his mother, says:
Although confined, I enjoy excellent health and am getting
stronger every day. The Southern hospitality extended, and we all feel happy at
our lot, none having reason to complain of the treatment they receive. We get
enough to eat and plenty of coffee to drink. *
* We are confined in a tobacco warehouse – a clean, well-ventilated and
healthy building, 75 by 80 feet, four stories high, and overlooking James River
and a vast extent of country. We receive the papers regularly every morning, but
they are all greatly prejudiced and incensed against the North, caused chiefly
by the articles inserted in the Tribune and Times, believing them to be the
sentiments of the Northern people, which I deny.
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