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    because niggers and Confederate deserters said there were Union soldiers under fire in Charleston. General Wessells went so far in his letter to General Foster as to protest against putting officers under fire on Morris Island; yet General Foster paid no attention to the protest.

The life of a prisoner of war is at best hard and irksome; and it is extremely hard when he is restricted in all things necessary to the simplest comfort. He must suffer, he does suffer, and suffers more than tongue can describe or pen portray when his rations are curtailed to the point of barely keeping him from starvation. Time and time again the Confederate authorities protested against the inhuman treatment of our men in Northern prisons, and begged the Washington authorities, in humanity's name, to exchange prisoners of war. "Send your transports," said President Davis and General Lee, through Exchange Commissioner Ould, "and take your sick