Libby Prison (hospital),
Richmond, August 28, 1864.
Dear Mother, —
I was sent here from Danville on Friday night. Traveled all night. I arrived
here yesterday morning; went to see Colonel Ould. I am “to be sent North by
first flag of truce boat,” so I hope I may reach home before this letter does.
I am still very feeble and shall not be fit for duty for several months. Nor
then for active field duty. I am very well treated here;1 as Colonel
Ould said to me, “Libby is not half so bad as it has been represented.”
Hoping to see you soon,
I am ever your
affectionate son,
W. F. Bartlett,
Brigadier General U.
S. A.
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1 He told his mother afterwards that the
statement as to good treatment was inserted to meet the contingency of the
opening of his letter.
SOURCE: Francis Winthrop Palfrey, Memoir of William
Francis Bartlett, p. 132
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