him hyzdu? my dear joshua was my last son, the staff of my old age. and now it is nothing more than justice that jeff davis' money should support those widows, mothers and orphans that he has made destitute by his wickedness. i view lincoln as the second moses and jeff as the second pharaoh and you as a second joshua. now, punish the rulers as they deserve. feed them as they fed our sons and husbands. give them a pint of cornmeal per day with a bran as that is the way they fed my dear son. made him mush or gruel for nine months, he died within a few days after he was paroled at baltimore, and i did not get to see him. oh, i am heartbroken. when they were moving their prisoners from andersonville, my son was sick, was bleeding at the lungs from exposure. he begged to ride, but they swore that he should walk, and they would run a bayonnette through him. he would have tried to have made his escape that night but thought he was too weak to keep out of the way of the blood hounds. so he suffered for nine months, had to build a hole in the ground to protect