July 29, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

His health; his wife's employment; false friends; shirts, honey, and newspapers from home.

GLC02166.024

July 30, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

News in the Cincinnati Gazette pertaining to exchange of prisoners.

GLC02166.025

July 30, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Judge Thompson.

Canceling request for aid in securing parole from prison.

GLC02166.026

July 31, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Explaining his appeal to Mrs. Thompson for parole; enclosing a clipping from the Cincinnati Gazette; numbering of letters.

GLC02166.027

August 3, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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

August 6, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Encouraging his wife to write more often.

GLC02166.029

August 7, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Delay in receiving mail.

GLC02166.030

September 10, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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 " 'Quiet' at Washington," and "Our Mistakes."

GLC02166.062

August 9, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

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

GLC02166.031

August 10, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Enduring Sundays in prison; mending his own clothes; receiving newspapers.

GLC02166.032

August 12, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

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

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Keeping track of sent/received letters.

GLC02166.034

August 15, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Urging his wife to write regularly; fellow inmate's decision to take the oath [of allegiance?], and Hughes' opinion in the matter.

GLC02166.035

August 15, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Postscript to previous letter urging his wife to say nothing of his remarks regarding Mr. G___'s cause.

GLC02166.036

August 16, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Concerns over correspondence; release of fellow inmate.

GLC02166.037

August 17, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Lack of vegetation in prison; Fifty-first Psalm and other devotional texts; concerns about his family's health in his absence.

GLC02166.038

August 18, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Questioning the arrest of a released inmate's daughter.

GLC02166.039

August 19, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Thanking her for the shirt she sent; advising her on various matters at home (ie. school for the children, the horse and buggy, accounts, etc.)

GLC02166.040

August 20, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

News of his wife's diphtheria; vows to take the oath if necessary to return and nurse her back to health; receiving dispatch with news of her improved condition.

GLC02166.041

August 20, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Rejoicing in news of her recovery; news of a POW exchange, with the dispersal of political prisoners to follow directly; advising his wife they will have to cross over into the Confederacy after his release.

GLC02166.042

August 21, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Cautioning his wife against a relapse; discussion of a passage from the Columbus Journal about the release of 140 citizen prisoners.

GLC02166.043

August 22, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Hopes of hearing from his wife soon, speculations as to why citizens are no longer being arrested and required to take the oath.

GLC02166.044

August 23, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Medical advice; hopes for release next week; news of liberation at other prisons; heavily censored letter from Eliza.

GLC02166.045

August 24, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Receiving no newspapers; mending his own clothes.

GLC02166.046

August 25, 1862

Hughes, Alfred, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Hughes

Moving to Prison No. 2, and possible discharge; restrictions placed on outgoing mail.

GLC02166.047