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Union Prisoners South Salisbury.
Releas'd Union Prisoners from South.
—The releas'd prisoners of War are now coming up from the Southern prisons.
—in those prisons—and in a land of plenty!)
At one of these latter he was taken prisoner, and pass'd four or five months in Secesh military prisons
Books were scarce.
UNION PRISONERS SOUTH.
ITEMS FROM MY NOTE BOOKS.
The releas'd prisoners of war are now coming up from the southern prisons.
Not the book needs so much to be the complete thing, but the reader of the book does.
transcription culled from the text file found at www.archive.org and edited based on their digital, flip-book
doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking among you all, yet needed most, I bring; A book
your dear sake, O soldiers, And for you, O soul of man, and you, love of comrades; The words of my book
nothing, the life of it every- thing everything A book separate, not link'd with the rest, nor felt
book-words! what are you?
in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living,
doors to me, proud libraries, For that which was lacking among you all, yet needed most, I bring; A book
your dear sake, O soldiers, And for you, O soul of man, and you, love of comrades; The words of my book
nothing, the life of it every- thing everything A book separate, not link'd with the rest, nor felt
book-words! what are you?
in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked, All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living,