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to Colonel C.W.B. Allison
July 7, 1862
Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864
Reason for imprisonment.
GLC02166.014
to Mary Hughes
July 15, 1862
Sending provisions and personal effects to Camp Chase.
GLC02166.015
July 16, 1862
Declining her offer to send his easy chair.
GLC02166.016
July 18, 1862
Sending four rings for those at home.
GLC02166.017
to Alfred Hughes
Campbell, fl. 1816-1862
Not receiving the Intelligencer. With pencil note by N.A. Gray, examiner at Camp Chase.
GLC02166.018
to Post Master, Columbus, Ohio
Campbell, Alexander W., 1828-1893
Inquiring after failure to deliver the Intelligencer to Alfred Hughes. With reply by postmaster on same page.
GLC02166.019
circa July 18, 1862
Gray, N.A., fl. 1862
Notification of censored correspondence.
GLC02166.020
to My Dear Sister
July 21, 1862
Requesting a second copy of the suppressed letter be sent via D. B. Tiffany.
GLC02166.021
July 24, 1862
Health of his wife and children; financial matters at home; cramped conditions in prison; discouraging his wife from sending items from home.
GLC02166.022
to Joseph Bell
Order for dividends.
GLC02166.023
July 29, 1862
His health; his wife's employment; false friends; shirts, honey, and newspapers from home.
GLC02166.024
July 30, 1862
News in the Cincinnati Gazette pertaining to exchange of prisoners.
GLC02166.025
to Mrs. Judge Thompson.
Canceling request for aid in securing parole from prison.
GLC02166.026
July 31, 1862
Explaining his appeal to Mrs. Thompson for parole; enclosing a clipping from the Cincinnati Gazette; numbering of letters.
GLC02166.027
August 3, 1862
"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
August 6, 1862
Encouraging his wife to write more often.
GLC02166.029
August 7, 1862
Delay in receiving mail.
GLC02166.030
August 9, 1862
Mail received through Capt. Tiffany; worries about his wife's health.
GLC02166.031
August 10, 1862
Enduring Sundays in prison; mending his own clothes; receiving newspapers.
GLC02166.032
August 12, 1862
Handmade sleeve buttons for his wife; diphtheria in Wheeling; draft dodgers; enclosing various clippings; transcribing a letter by N.A. Gray about contraband letters. With several lines on page three written over in a second, darker hand.
GLC02166.033
August 13, 1862
Keeping track of sent/received letters.
GLC02166.034
August 15, 1862
Urging his wife to write regularly; fellow inmate's decision to take the oath [of allegiance?], and Hughes' opinion in the matter.
GLC02166.035
Postscript to previous letter urging his wife to say nothing of his remarks regarding Mr. G___'s cause.
GLC02166.036
to Aaron Hobart
26 September 1817
Hobart, Aaron, 1764-1818
Mentions his poor health and explains that he has "enclosed an amount against Robert Thomas" that he wants his son to collect.
GLC06313.04.055
22 April 1810
Jones, David, 1748-1822
Discusses legal matters pertaining to a land dispute. States that if Hobart sends the money along with the Quit Claim Deed, then Gammon would sign and leave it to him "to be conveyed to [Hobart]." Also mentions that if Elihu wants to purchase their...
GLC06313.04.013
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