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it was Sunday." This lady adds: "There were two brothers--one a colonel, the other a captain — lying side by side, and both wounded. They had a Bible between them." Another letter from Philadelphia says: "There are over 8,000 on the island, (Fort Delaware,) the hospitals crowded, and between 300 and 400 men on the bare floors of the barracks; not even a straw mattress under them. The surgeon says the hundred pillows and other things sent from here were a God-send. Everything except gray clotes if you knew all I hear and know is true of the sufferings of our poor people." Another writes: Philadelphia, July 20th, 1863.--I mentioned in my last the large number of Southern prisoners now in the hands of the Federal Government in Fort Delaware, near this city. There are 3,000, a large portion of whom are sick and wounded; all are suffering most seriously for the want of a thousand things. Those in this city who are by birth or association connected with Southern people, and who f