CHAPTER XII.. Mission Work in New Orleans.

MISSION WORK IN NEW ORLEANS.

Mission Work in New Orleans--Soldiers and Prisoners Visited on Ship Island--Petition of Seventy Soldier Prisoners in behalf of Three Thousand of their Fellow Prisoners--Appeal in behalf of Ship Island and Tortugas Prisoners--Mission Work at Plaquemine--Natchez--Capture of a Rebel steamer--Arrival at Home--Release of the Three Thousand Banished Union Soldiers