Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Brigadier-General William F. Bartlett: Thursday, August 4, 1864

Get no better, yet wrote to General Lee and Secretary of War this morning, asking for my exchange or parole. I hope they are not much worried at home. I am glad they do not know the truth. Much pain still; bowels very weak; no appetite. No one can ever know the misery that I have suffered the past few days. I don't know how long I can endure this. It seems to be my lot to suffer. I must not be ungrateful for all God's mercies though, in sparing my life.

SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William Francis Bartlett, p. 121

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