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well as inquiries from good people in the North, seeking information concerning Southerners who are supposed to be confined in some unknown Northern prison.
Frequently prisoners seek this means of getting and communicating news from and to Northern friends as well as to and from relatives in the South.
It is a piece of petty meanness to deprive us of the prized privilege of reading these “personal” items.
Surely our reading them cannot impair the integrity of the Yankee Union, or be aiding and abetting the “rebellion.”
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