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to Mary Hughes

Details of Judge Foster's release; shooting of a fellow prisoner after a fight broke out.

GLC02166.105

to Mary Hughes

News of friends moving to the South.

GLC02166.109

to Miss Sue Johnston

One of the Colonels placed a truce flag on enemy lines today. He heard that the left wing of Grant's army was whipped. 17,000 men were taken prisoner. He refers to Banks' defeat.

GLC02167.18

to Alfred Hughes

Forwarding personal effects so as not to let the "Yanks" get them.

GLC02166.066

to Mary Hughes

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

to Mary Hughes

Receipt of a package from home.

GLC02166.004

to Alfred Hughes

Notification of censored correspondence.

GLC02166.020

to Mary Hughes

"Dog days" of summer; uncomfortably hot conditions in prison (with pencil note from postal inspector: "Precisely the same quarters the Unions soldiers occupy.")

GLC02166.028

to Mary Hughes

Mail received through Capt. Tiffany; worries about his wife's health.

GLC02166.031

to Mary Hughes

Affectionate sentiments to his wife; advising her to take Belladonna for her ailments.

GLC02166.051