18th. 400 of us were removed this morning to Libby, weak and hungry.

The very name of LIBBY has became synonymous of terror.

It carries tyranny and oppression in its simple sound.

The soldier who is taken prisoner in Virginia vale is at once haunted with visions of this darksome den and shrinks from entering a place so full of bitter experiences as this is known to be.

Fierce hate and revenge reign supreme here,

and consequently there is a system of discipline which produces a condition such as we might expect when the discordant elements of beings rage unchecked,

and we are not surprised to find the culmination reached in almost fiendish expression.