Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1912 — Was in Southern Military Prison 47 Years Ago Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Was in Southern Military Prison 47 Years Ago Sunday.

J., P. Simons has a vivid recollection of his twenty-first birthday, which was spent forty-Beven years ago Sunday in a southern military prison at Goldsboro, North Carolina. For about seven months he had been at AndersonviJJ.e and other prisons and when he arrived ».t his majority he had been living for a long tijne on a small allowance of corn meal a day, which they were allowed to cook as best they could but which had to be daten Without a;iy seasoning, neither salt, sugar or inilk. Mr. Simons says ttiat he was about as thin as a person’s hand toe day he became of age-and he did not expect to see another birthday. It was not long after (that, however, that he was paroled, and ft few days’ later he was inside the union lines.