A chilly day. Shortly after noon it began to rain and continued all night to which all prisoners are exposed. Drew a little more bread and b...

Owing to wet clothing and a chill I could not sleep. Before day I was watching the country. At sunrise we were alongside the Little Roanoke ...

Those who complained bitterly of soldiering in our ranks, are very gloomy and wish they were back to their regiments, saying they never woul...

Libby Prison (hospital), Richmond , August 28, 1864. Dear Mother , — I was sent here from Danville on Friday night. Traveled all nigh...

Of course awake at daylight. Reached Burkesville Junction shortly after, where we lay in the sun all one day, en route to Danville. Reach R...

Prisoners' Hospital, Danville, Va ., August 20, 1864. My Dear Mother , — I have been very ill with dysentery, consequent on the e...

Prisoners' Hospital, Danville, Va. , August 5, 1864. Dear Mother , — I will write a few lines in the hope that they may reach you...

Hospital outside Danville. The past few days seem like a horrible dream which I can never forget. The misery that I have suffered is more t...

Start this A. M. for Danville. Ride in dirty freight cars. Got to Burkesville Junction about nine. Wait there all day long in heat and dirt...

Richmond has fallen and I have no heart to write about it. Grant broke through our lines and Sherman cut through them. Stoneman is this sid...

Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, Burksville, Va. , April 24, 1865. I received last evening your letter of the 20th, and was sorry t...

Headquarters Army Of The Potomac , April 20, 1865. I am glad you were so prompt in putting your house in mourning for the loss of the P...

Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, Burksville, Va ., April 12, 1865. Your indignation at the exaggerated praise given to certain offic...

Headquarters Army or The Potomac , April 7,1865. Though late at night, I seize the time to send you a few lines. I don't know when ...

Headquarters Army Of The Potom ac, April 3, 1865. The telegraph will have conveyed to you, long before this reaches you, the joyful int...

WASHINGTON, May 5. The following statement, dated yesterday on the Rappahannock, has reached Washington: A colored many came in to-...