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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