Bradford Sparrow to Father, Mother, and Brothers
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Again I am allowed to inform you of my whereabouts. It has been a long time since
we corrisponded, but that could not be avoided for it has been my fate to be
deprived since The 23d of last June the privilige of writing for which I feel
verry sorry, but the most I think of now is whether you are all as well as when
I last heard from you. I suppose you hav long wondered where I was, or if you
new or imagined where I was you thought it strange that while so many were
exchanged that I was not among them. So I suppose you hav been pilled with doubt
& fear all the while about my being a live, but you see now that
I
hav lived through it though I hav had a hard seige of
it for I hav been in the Rebel Bull Ten in Andersonvill, Ga. where yankee
prisoners are kept. I suppose you hav heard of this place so I will not fill my
sheet with a description, but I have got out of the Confederacy at last.
My health is not verry good. I hav some cough & am weak & stiff with the
scurvy, but the scurvy is easy cured all it wants is
good living or more particularly plenty of vegetables I am thin in flesh but hav
a good appetite & hav had enough to eat since I got into Gods
country which was the 27th of April. I am so as to be out around but not well
enough to stay at camp, all that can be done done for us is being
3000 of us come in
here quite unexpected, our folks knew nothing of our coming for we were not
exchanged but paroled & passed in to the lines all the supplies her
[] come from Hilton Head SC, so they can not do as well by us here as
they could a round Washington the men hav most all got new clothes, the Sanitary
Commision are doing its part this paper & envelope was given me by one of
its agents, I expect they will do better by & be, how long we shall stay
here I cannot tell, not long I hope. In a few week I hope I shall be at home
& then I can tell you all a bout prison life. Great events have transpired of late, some for the good of the nation
& some for the worse, since the surender of Lee I have been looking for
peace, minute guns were fired here
every half hour on one day the death of Lincon. I will write again as soon
as I can or when get paper when you answer this direct to Parole Hospital, Jacksonville
Florida, & in care of Dr Bundy, put in some paper & envelope. I will
write more next time
Yours
TrulyB.P. Sparrow