After his death I secured his Bible, diary, a small book in which he kept the photographs of his family, and a few little tools, with which he used to while away the time in making bone rings, &c.; all of which, with the watch, according to my promise, I have succeeded in delivering to his father.
I was paroled on the 29th of November, 1864, and sent from Florence, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, where I was put on shipboard, and brought, with many others, to Annapolis, Maryland, where I arrived on the morning of the 5th of December, and immediately informed Charles Smedley's father of his sad fate.
Richard Dobbins,
Co. H, 17th Regiment Iowa Volunteers
FOOTNOTES:
[4] His little tent as described under date of "3d day, 5th mo. 24th."
[5] The term street must be applied to the road in the centre of the stockade. It cannot possibly be a street in the town.
[6] By the term "raiders," the writer designates a set of thieves and cut-throats among the prisoners, who made a practice of robbing newly arrived Union soldiers.