The City by Moonlight--Old Accusation Renewed--Libby Prison--Discomfort--A Change--Citizens' Department--Richmond Breakfast--Removed under Guard--Castle Thunder--Miniature Bedlam--Conceal a Knife--Confined in a Stall--Dreadful Gloom--Routine of a Day--Suffering at Night--Friends Exchanged--Newspapers--Burnside--Pecuniary Perplexities--Captain Webster--Escape Prevented--Try Again on Christmas Night--Betrayed--Fearful Danger Avoided. 247-266 CHAPTER XVI. Letter sent Home--Alarming Pestilence--Our Quarters Changed--Rowdyism--Fairy Stories--Judge Baxter--Satanic Strategy--Miller's History--An Exchange with a Dead Man--Effect of Democratic Victories--Attempt to Make us Work--Digging out of a Cell--Worse than the Inquisition--Unexpected Interference--List from "Yankee Land"--Clothing Stolen--Paroled--A Night of Joy--Torch-light March--On the Cars--The Boat--Reach Washington--Receive Medals, Money, and Promotion--Home. 267-288 INTRODUCTION. While our absent brothers are battling on the field, it is becoming that the friends at home should be eager for the minutest particulars of the camp-life, courage and endurance of the dear boys far away; for to the loyal lover of his country every soldier is a brother. The narrative related on the following pages is one of extraordinary "daring and suffering," and will excite an interest in the public mind such as has rarely, if ever, arisen from any personal adventures recorded on the page of history. WILLIAM PITTENGER, the oldest of a numerous family, was born in Jefferson county, Ohio, January 31st, 1840. His father, THOMAS PITTENGER, is a farmer, and trains his children in the solid experiences of manual labor. His mother is from a thinking familyhood of people, many of whom are well known in Eastern Ohio as pioneers in social and moral progress--the MILLS'S. WILLIAM learned to love his country about as early as he learned to love his own mother; for his first lessons were loyalty and liberty, syllabled by a mother's lips. Even before the boy could read, he knew in outline the history of our nation's trials and triumphs, from the days of Bunker Hill, forward to the passing events of the latest newspaper chronicling,--all of which facts were nightly canvassed around the cabin-hearth.