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Sir,—I do in behalf of my fellow-prisoners earnestly hope and pray that this may be the means, through you, sir, of procuring our release. The privations of the white soldiers are nothing in comparison to ours and in our destitute condition, being as it were, without friends, and in the enemy's hands, with an almost hopelessness of being released, and not having heard from our families or friends since we were captured.

Mass.


List of colored soldiers and sailors, held as prisoners of war, at Charleston, S. C. June 13th, 1864:—

Corporal Ralph B. Gardner. Co. A, 54th Mass.; captured at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863.

James Allen. Co. A, 54th Mass.; captured at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863.

William F. Hill. Co. A, 54th Mass.; captured at Fort Wagner July 18, 1863.

Corporal Charles Hardy. Co. B, 54th Mass.; captured at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863.

Lemuel Blake. Co. B, 54th Mass.; captured at James Island, July 14, 1863.

George counsel. Co. B, 54th Mass.; captured at James Island, July 14, 1863.

George Grant. Captured at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863.

Samuel Wilson.

William Rigsly.

Daniel States.

George F. Prosser, Co. D.

William Grover.

Jefferson Ellis, Co. F.

John Gray.

Charles Stanton, Co. G.

Sergeant Walter A. Jeffries. Co. H, captured July 15, 1863, at James Island, S. C.

Corporal A. Williams, Co.

Jesse Brown.

Alfred Green.

Cornelius Henson, Co. C.

Nathaniel Hurley, Co. E.

William Butler.

George Mushroom.

George Thomas.

Solomon Anderson.

H. Wm. H. Kirk, Co. H.

Wm. H. Worthington, Co. H.

John W. Dixon, Co. H, 54th Mass.

James Caldwell.

John Leatherman.

Wm. H. Harrison.

Joseph H. Proctor.

Enos Smith.

Fred Wallace.

Isarael Williams.

Sergeant Alfred Whiting. Co. I, captured at Fort Wagner, July 18, 1863. [413]

Stuart woods.

Baltimore Smith.

Joseph beard, Co. K.

Sergeant Robert Johnson, Jr. Co. F, 55th Mass.; captured at N. Edisto Island, S. C., Nov. 12, 1863.

Edward Logan. Co. F, 55th Mass.; captured at N. Edisto Island, S. C., Nov. 12, 1863.

Oren Brown. U. S. gunboat, Isaac Smith, Feb. 1863.

Wm. Johnson. U. S. gunboat, Isaac Smith, Feb. 1863.

Wm. Wilson. U. S. gunboat, Isaac Smith, Feb. 1863.

Wm. Taylor. U. S. gunboat, Isaac Smith, Feb. 1863.

James Mellet. U. S. Frigate Wabash; captured at Fort Sumter.


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