. Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ... . e.—The freemasonry of misfortune.—Plot and counter-plot.—The pursuit of pleasure under difficulties. IT does not come within the scope of the presentwork to enter into a detailed description of thesufferings of the Union prisoners in this place ofdurance: those who have a taste for such gloomythemes may gratify it by reading the first work by ouryoung soldier-author, entitled The Capture, Prison-Pen and Escape/ in which the horrors of that houseof misery are eloquently described. We may, how-ever, say
. Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ... . e.—The freemasonry of misfortune.—Plot and counter-plot.—The pursuit of pleasure under difficulties. IT does not come within the scope of the presentwork to enter into a detailed description of thesufferings of the Union prisoners in this place ofdurance: those who have a taste for such gloomythemes may gratify it by reading the first work by ouryoung soldier-author, entitled The Capture, Prison-Pen and Escape/ in which the horrors of that houseof misery are eloquently described. We may, how-ever, say this much, that if the testimony of eye-wit-nesses is to be credited, it was a fearful place, and oneover whose portals the words of Dante might havebeen appropriately inscribed, All ye who enter hereabandon hope. Of some thousand Northern officers confined here,Glazier, of course, met several from his own corps, whohad been previously captured. He at first felt hiscondition very acutely. His roving life amid themagnificent scenery of Virginia, Maryland and Penn-(166) tdw id W GC c.
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