. Southern heroes;. they mightwish, and made earnest appeals to the Southern sym-pathizers in Baltimore and elsewhere for money, pre-tending that they needed it to buy food, clothing,blankets and other needfid thino^s. The foUowiue: isan account given by F. T. King concerning the sub-ject, and gives a good idea of the care of prisonersby the Federal government: POINT LOOKOUT. In the cold winter of 1863, when so muchsuffering from the weather was experienced by theprisoners of war, a leading merchant of Baltimore,a well-known sympathizer with the South, called uponme and said that he and his fr
. Southern heroes;. they mightwish, and made earnest appeals to the Southern sym-pathizers in Baltimore and elsewhere for money, pre-tending that they needed it to buy food, clothing,blankets and other needfid thino^s. The foUowiue: isan account given by F. T. King concerning the sub-ject, and gives a good idea of the care of prisonersby the Federal government: POINT LOOKOUT. In the cold winter of 1863, when so muchsuffering from the weather was experienced by theprisoners of war, a leading merchant of Baltimore,a well-known sympathizer with the South, called uponme and said that he and his friends were constantlyreceiving letters from Confederate prisoners at PointLookout, at the mouth of the Potomac, complainingof not being protected from the severity of theweather, and that they were suffering intensely forwant of blankets, shoes, underclothing, etc. Wehave piles of such letters, he said, and we are pre-pared to put into your hands 120,000 as a gift toyou, for which you will be accountable to no one,. FRANCIS T. (i SOUTHERN HEROES. 449 believing that we can rely uj)on you to relieve theprisoners at Point Lookout. I replied that I hardlythought their condition could be so bad, and that Isaw no way by which I could serve him unless I wentto the Secretary of War myself and received au-thority to disburse this money. He replied that Imight take any course I thought best, but he and hisfriends did not wish to be known in the matter ; theydid not think it safe that they should be. I went to Washington at once and told SecretaryStanton the whole story. Striking his hand upon thetable he said: God forbid that I should ever resortto such retaliatory measures, and taking a card hewrote out a commission for me to visit the prison andreport to him. At my request he included the nameof James Carey. We started next day upon our mission, spent thefirst night at Alexandria, Va., and took a govern-ment boat the following morning down the a number of Confederate
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