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The Daily Dispatch: September 5, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two hundred dollars Reward. (search)
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 mm; 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 of its requests being granted.--Encouraged by this leniency, General Wessels then proceeds to write General Jones a series of letters, requesting that the "Sanitary Commission" be permitted to attend to the wants of the prisoners at Andersonville, Macon, and other places, and that General Seymour be allowed to visit