CHAPTER XVI.. Libby Prison.

LIBBY PRISON.

"All ye who enter here abandon hope."--Auld lang syne.--Major Turner.--Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.--Stoicism.--Glazier enters the prison-hospital--A charnel-house.--Rebel surgeons.-- Prison correspondence.--Specimen of a regulation letter.--The tailor's joke.--A Roland for an Oliver.--News of death.--Schemes for escape.--The freemasonry of misfortune.--Plot and counter-plot.--The pursuit of pleasure under difficulties 166