CHAPTER XII.
MISSION WORK IN NEW ORLEANS.
Mission Work in New Orleans—Soldiers and Prisoners Visited on Ship
Island—Petition of Seventy Soldier Prisoners in behalf of Three
Thousand of their Fellow Prisoners—Appeal in behalf of Ship Island and
Tortugas Prisoners—Mission Work at Plaquemine—Natchez—Capture of a
Rebel steamer—Arrival at Home—Release of the Three Thousand Banished
Union Soldiers