The following is an Appeal to Congress in behalf of the ex-prisoners
of war, issued by Felix LaBaume, President of the “National
Ex-Prisoners of War Association,” and I hope that the united efforts
of every one of the survivors will be concentrated with an object in
view which shall substantially benefit those who performed a most
valuable service in putting down the rebellion, suffering horrors and
privations that cannot fully be described, and for which privations
and sufferings they have never been recognized in the existing
pension laws.