You use the phrase 'brutal Rebels.' Don't be cheated in that way. There are enough 'brutal Rebels' no doubt, but we have brutal officers and men too. I have had men brutally treated by our own officers on this raid [to Lynchburg, Va.]. And there are plenty of humane Rebels. I have seen a good deal of it on this trip. War is a cruel business and there is brutality in it on all sides, but it is very idle to get up anxiety on account of any supposed peculiar cruelty on the part of Rebels. Keepers of prisons in Cincinnati, as well as in Danville, are hard-hearted and cruel.

We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o'clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercis…

We now talk of our killed and wounded. There is however a very happy feeling. Those who escape regret of course the loss of comrades and friends, but their own…

These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. - Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at th…

Recently I was discharged from the German army while in this prison and was informed that I am on the so-called war criminal list number seven. I haven't the f…

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

He will be immediately avenged!