August 29, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Issues at home; opinions about Mr. G___ [fellow inmate who took the oath in items #35-37] and his family.

GLC02166.053

August 30, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Mail between Cincinnati, Columbus, and Wheeling; misinformation regarding page limits on outgoing letters; Eliza's use of the word "nervous."

GLC02166.054

August 31, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Hopes for release or parole; appointment of Judge Hitchcock to investigate cases of political prisoners at Camp Chase; Gen. Halleck's orders indicating release is inevitable; offers medical advice for her various ailments.

GLC02166.055

September 1, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

More medical advice; adjusting to conditions in the Prison No. 2; propagation of secessionism in the prison.

GLC02166.056

September 2, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Daily devotions; sensing his wife is unwell before she has told him; more medical advice.

GLC02166.057

September 3, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Cautioning her against developing a "nervous" condition; self-preservation; arrival of political prisoners from Louisville.

GLC02166.058

September 4, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Criticism of the war; sentimental thoughts about his children.

GLC02166.059

September 5, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

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

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

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 12, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Spiritual lessons learned at Camp Chase; his son Tommy; advising her to see the dentist.

GLC02166.063

September 14, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Darning and mending; prescriptions for headache and sore throat trouble; dental work.

GLC02166.064

September 15, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Piety among prisoners of war and lack thereof among political prisoners; conversation with Judge Foster (a fellow inmate).

GLC02166.065

September 15, 1862

Boggs, W.W., fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Hughes

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

GLC02166.066

September 16, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Requesting newspapers; teaching the catechism to his children; arrival of prisoners taken at Martinsburg, Virginia.

GLC02166.067

September 16, 1862

Hughes, Mary, fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Hughes

Behavior of their son Tommy and news of the other children; making clothes for her husband; her health.

GLC02166.068

September 17, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Plans to observe a day of prayer and thanksgiving set aside by President Davis; Rev. Dr. Ford; wealthy gentlemen among the prisoners brought from Martinsburg; taking of thirty prisoners by one man.

GLC02166.069

September 18, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Child-rearing advice; thanking her for her efforts at home; requesting socks; enclosing two newspaper clippings about escapes from Camp Chase.

GLC02166.070

September 19, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Account of their day of prayer and thanksgiving; escapes and attempted escapes from Camp Chase.

GLC02166.071

11 April 1865

Robins, Juliet G., fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Drazilla Churchill.

Churchill wishes his mother to know that he is alive and that he arrived at the hospital at David's Island from Wilmington, where he spent a month in the hospital there. Previously, he was a prisoner in Florence, S.C., where he suffered frostbite and lost all his toes.

GLC03859.26

November 1893

Flinn, John William, fl. 1863-1893

Typed document

Title: A Southern Soldier's Experiences in a Northern Prison

Originally written for the students of a "lady cousin" who was concerned her pupils were being misinformed about the "kind treatment of Southern Soldiers in Northern prisons." Flinn later presented the address at "S. C. College Nov. 1893." He begins by providing a brief history of his military service and then launches into an in-depth description of his sufferings as a prisoner at Point Lookout, Maryland from July 1864 to March 1865. The manuscript contains a two-page description of the camp's physical layout. Flinn emphasizes the inadequate clothing, foul water, bitter cold, and ravenous…

GLC04573.13

27 December 1862

Saunders, J. C. Jr., fl. 1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Wortham

Written from "Gill's Signal Station." Saunders writes as the Sergeant in command of the Station: "I send…a man who came to my station today. He says he is from Philadelphia and just out of "Castle Thunder" Richmond. I do not think he is altogether right, as contradicted himself several times in his statements." Castle Thunder in Richmond was a tobacco warehouse converted into a prison during the Civil War. Prisoners, many of whom were under sentence of death, were primarily civilians, they included violent criminals, Union sympathizers, and spies, among them Dr. Mary E. Walker.

GLC02233.16

1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Reporters outside courthouse where Capt. Wirz was tried]

Group of men (probably reporters, as evidenced by their pads of paper and pens) most likely gathered outside the courthouse where Capt. Wirz was tried. With various inscriptions on verso.

GLC06999.32

1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Gallows in Washington D.C.]

View of the gallows just after the drop of Capt. Wirz; with rotunda of the Capitol visible in background. Several people in the background are seen high in the trees trying to get a view of the hanging. With various graphite inscriptions on verso and accompanying envelope.

GLC06999.33

1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: Execution of Wirtz of Andersonville

View of the gallows as the noose is placed around Capt. Wirz's neck. Union soldiers with bayonets surround the platform. With graphite inscriptions on verso.

GLC06999.34

1864 August 17

Riddle, A.J., fl. 1864-1883

Photograph

Title: Andersonville Prison, Georgia

Bears stamp of the Century Co. and several inscriptions. Cropped and trimmed version of GLC06999.02.

GLC06999.03