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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 4.21 (search)
e as valueless as Confederate money. November 2d and 3d Am not at all well, and take some pills. Gold closed at 246 last night. There seems to be a financial panic. November 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Have been quite sick with dysentery, caused, no doubt, by improper food. Knowles put me on what he calls low diet, but what is really starvation fare. Have received a kind letter from brave Captain Hugh E. Malone, of the Eighth Georgia, now wounded in both legs and a prisoner at Johnson's Island, Lake Erie. He is a near neighbor to my mother in Georgia, and a most capable and popular officer. Has been a prisoner since the battle of Gettysburg, and, during his confinement, was elected to the Georgia Legislature--a graceful compliment to real merit. My young lady friends in Winchester write me often, always addressing me as Dear cousin. Their letters cheer and gladden me, greatly relieving the tedious monotony of prison life. Many of the prisoners receive letters from ladies
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Book notices, (search)
pen, and has written an exceedingly interesting narrative of his experience and observation as a prisoner of war — much of the narrative being taken from a diary which he kept at the time. The book is divided into three parts--On my way to Johnson's Island, Life on Johnson's Island, and My Escape and Recapture--and the whole is very pleasantly combined into a book of decided interest, and of considerable historic value as throwing light on the question of the Treatment of prisoners. Colonel HJohnson's Island, and My Escape and Recapture--and the whole is very pleasantly combined into a book of decided interest, and of considerable historic value as throwing light on the question of the Treatment of prisoners. Colonel Hundley did not find Northern prisons the palaces which they have been represented to be, and his narrative might have served a good purpose had we had it when preparing our numbers on the prison question. We can cordially recommend the book as worthy of an important place in our war literature. Southern Historical Society papers, for 1877. The marked favor with which this Monthly has been received during the first year of its existence, insures its success during the coming year, an