. . . 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 they army
than we had been accustomed to hear. We
are short of clothing, and particularly of money.
– Published in the Iowa State Register, Weekly
Edition, Des Moines Iowa, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, p. 1
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