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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Heckman or search for Heckman in all documents.
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An "interesting correspondence."
The Charleston papers, while publishing some very interesting correspondence which has taken place about the prisoners recently confined in that city, have overlooked a series of most insolent letters addressed to General Sam Jones by Brigadier-Generals Wessels, Shaler, Scammon, Seymour and Heckman, while in prison there.
We find the whole printed in a Northern journal.
The first letter, dated "Charleston Jail, June 15," demands that the Confederate authorities should issue to them, "at no matter what expense or trouble," (we copy the words) a ration equal to that issued by the Yankee authorities to the Confederate prisoners.--They also request that they shall be allowed to subscribe to the Charleston papers; that washing and bathing arrangements be provided for them; that they be notified when flags of truce go to the Federal lines; and that their limits for exercise be enlarged.
This insolent letter received attention to the extent of some