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to Mary Hughes
August 23, 1862
Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864
Medical advice; hopes for release next week; news of liberation at other prisons; heavily censored letter from Eliza.
GLC02166.045
September 5, 1862
Letter from his daughter Mary; weather; sermon by Rev. Dr. Baldwin (one of the political prisoners from Louisville); medical advice.
GLC02166.060
September 6, 1862
Mail distribution; reaction to censorship by Prison Postmaster Tiffany; her eating habits; departure of POW's for exchange. With an autograph note signed by Tiffany on verso denying having mutilated Hughes' letter.
GLC02166.061
September 18, 1862
Child-rearing advice; thanking her for her efforts at home; requesting socks; enclosing two newspaper clippings about escapes from Camp Chase.
GLC02166.070
October 22,1862
Optimism for the future; advising her not to visit him in prison; distrusting the efforts of those outside to secure his release.
GLC02166.095
October 29, 1862
Requesting copies of the World; conversation with a fellow inmate regarding the Bible and their respective wives; speculation about how to secure a pass to Richmond.
GLC02166.102
November 2, 1862
Details of Judge Foster's release; shooting of a fellow prisoner after a fight broke out.
GLC02166.105
November 7, 1862
News of friends moving to the South.
GLC02166.109
September 10, 1862
His wife's overexertion; encouraging his daughter's study of music, and the proper conduct of all his other children; prescribing medicine for his wife; tales of wickedness and cruelty told in prison. With clippings from unidentified papers entitled...
GLC02166.062
June 20, 1862
Receipt of a package from home.
GLC02166.004
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