Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — One of the “Pleasant Reminiscences.” [ARTICLE]

One of the “Pleasant Reminiscences.”

Tbe other day I saw, in the possession of Gen. J. S. Robinson, a photograph of an ex-Federal soldier who has been vainly trying to get a pension. The pieture represented him in a nude condition. He was a man of stalwart frame, and the picture was taken after his liberation from the pen at Andersonville. When he waa put in there he was a hearty, robust young man, weigh--4 -g 179 pounds. When rescued he weighed ninety pounds. The picture is the ghastliest thing upon which my eyes ever rested. The face is the face of a death’s head, with hollow eyes, hairless scalp, with tightdrawn skin and grinning teeth. One look at that awfol sight, ana you turn away in horror. This .is one of the “pleasant reminiscences” of the war mentioned so cheerfully by Mr. Carl Schurz in his speech in Charleston, 8. C.— F. D. M.'s Current Notes.