...confined at Chicago, have written a letter to the Nashville Patriot which they request the Tennessee papers to copy in which they say:
We want to say to our wives, fathers, mothers and children, not to run away from their homes and firesides, as others have done, even if the Federal forces should come in their midst; nor grieve themselves unnecessarily on our account. We know not (if we are detained long) how our wives and children will live but we are prisoners of hope, and we have formed a better opinion of the Northern people and the army than we had been accustomed to hear. We are short of clothing, and particularly of money.
– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, April 11, 1862
We want to say to our wives, fathers, mothers and children, not to run away from their homes and firesides, as others have done, even if the Federal forces should come in their midst; nor grieve themselves unnecessarily on our account. We know not (if we are detained long) how our wives and children will live but we are prisoners of hope, and we have formed a better opinion of the Northern people and the army than we had been accustomed to hear. We are short of clothing, and particularly of money.
– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Friday, April 11, 1862
No comments:
Post a Comment