From the Stevens Point Journal (Stevens Point, Wisconsin) June 8, 1901 page 1

An Old Andersonville Prisoner. James Stinson of New Lisbon is in the city visiting his son, Warren, who is a student in the Normal. Mr. Stinson was a member of the Fourth Wisconsin Cavalry and was a prisoner at Andersonville and Charleston and Florence, South Carolina, for eleven months in 1864. While at Andersonville he escaped by passing himself off as a rebel sergeant, but was pursued and captured. When brought before Capt. Wirz after his recapture he was taken out to the blacksmith shop where a ball and chain were riveted to one of his ankles. He was then returned to the stockade, but converted a table knife into a saw, and with this cut the iron that was around his ankle so that he could remove it and place it on at pleasure. This was necessary, for the reason that men who had been put in irons were inspected every day, and if it was found that the shackle had been removed a severe punishment awaited them. Mr. Stinson still has the iron that was placed around his ankle at the time.