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9TH ALABAMA CAVALRY JOHNSON'S ISLAND POW LETTER

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9TH ALABAMA CAVALRY JOHNSON'S ISLAND POW LETTER
A good war-date A.L.S. by Capt. James Harrison, 9th Alabama Cavalry, 1p. oblong 4to., "Military Prison, Johnson's Island, Ohio, Nov. 21, 1864" to Mr. James Brooks, Richmond, in part: "I am a prisoner of war at this place [and] was wounded at Lafayette Ga., on 14th last June very severely in the left side…I am again well, but in great need of some funds & provisions. I have written repeatedly to persons that I knew before the war but unfortunately…I cannot hear from them doubtlessly they never received my letters. I would be under many obligations…if you could send me one box of good chewing tobacco which would answer in the place of money also…could you send me a Bl. of flour…you should be paid at the earliest opportunity. I now belong to the 9th Ala. Cav. [and] have left the old 4th Ala Regt. of Infy. How does Capt. J. Taylor Jones come on & Lieut. Wm. Taylor. Has Dick gone back to the Regt. He was married a few days before I was captured to Miss. Lora Watkins formerly of Va…I am not in a sclose a place as I was at Gaines Mills, but am in one as little to be desired as the one referred to above…Capt. James Harrison, Prisoner of War Block 2 Johnson's Island Ohio". A note on the verso by Mr. Brooks reads, in part: "I left 30 3/4 boxes of manufactured tobacco which I had…to be sent to Lynchburg as all communications are cut and I don't know what to do with it…". Fine.