...andcuffed to it in the evening, and thus we were kept all night until the 2d of January, 1864. I was badly frost-bitten and my health was much impaired. This cruel infliction was done by order of Captain Byrnes , Commandant of Prisons in St. Louis. He was barbarous and insulting to the last degree. But even a greater inhumanity than any we have mentioned was perpetrated upon our prisoners at Camp...