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The Daily Dispatch: November 30, 1864., [Electronic resource], John Marchmont's Legacy. (search)
The last of the peace Commissioners. The Atlantic Monthly contains the last instalment of the narrative of "Edmund Kirke" and Colonel Jacques's trip to Richmond. It is much more impudent and Yankee in its style than the first publication. It appears that they were courteously shown through the Libby prison and hospitals. We give some extracts about the visit to the Libby, where, after reflecting on the terrors of being imprisoned there, the writer delivers the following. Complimentary Notice of Major Turner. And, while these thoughts were in my mind, the cringing, foul-mouthed, brutal, contemptible ruffian who had caused all this misery stood within two paces of me ! I could have reached out my hand, and, with half an effort, have crushed him, and — I did not do it! Some invisible power held my arm, for murder was in my heart. "This is where that Yankee devil Streight, that raised hell so among you down in Georgia, got out," said Turner, pausing before a jut in