Identifier: unitedstatesbond00hand (find matches)
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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me timely cautions. He thenmentioned the case of an officer under deep conviction of sin.Other cases of seriousness were brought to the attention of themeeting by myself; and prayer was offered for the inquirers. Parson Thomas occupied the stand in the afternoon, andpreached from John v. 39 : Search the Scriptures The oldgentleman is a great advocate of immersion and feet-washing,and found it easy to introduce sundry illustrations in thedirection of his favorite topics. I regret this, as the inevitableconsequence is excitement and, probably, controversy, whichare wholly out of place here. I have no disposition, however,to find fault with him, as he evidently means well; and withall his wood, hay, and stubble, he has some genuine grainsof gold. The chiefs of the several divisions have been informed, to-day, that the order restricting all correspondence to ten linesfor each letter, has been revoked. A notice to the same effectwas posted on the outside of the barracks several days ago. u
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DURESS BY FEDERAL AUTHORITY. 571 Informed of this, as I supposed by reliable authority, I sentout several letters immediately. We now hear that five or sixhundred letters, written on the same day, were all destroyed.Was this done to make a few dollars, by saving the stamps;or from spite, because we did not wait for a more formalannouncement in the pen ? I hope there may be somemistake. jg~3f° Grape:—Two officers who were called out, to-day,report that in a conversation with Gen. Schoepf, he refused togrant paroles to certain officers, on the ground that, in fourweeks from this time, there would not be a prisoner on theIsland. Gen. S. is said to have gotten this information fromMaj. Mulford, who recently left here with the sick and wounded. Letters, received to-day, inform us, that the prisoners wholately left here, to be placed under fire at Charleston, are nowin the harbor of that city, on the steamer Crescent; and thattired and suffering, they are alternately hoping and fearing,

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