This is another letter my cousin Arnold Thompson transcribed. It was written by my G
Grandfather William Curtis Morgan to his wife Mary Eveline Townsend while he was a
prisoner of war in Florence, North Carolina. He was sent there after his release from
Andersonville. He died 3 years after his release from complications he acquired while at
Andersonville. Don Coatney
Prison near Florence S.C.
Oct. 19th 1864
My dear Mary,
I address you a few lines to let you know I am well and hope you are the same. I am a
prisoner of war. Was captured in the battle of the 22nd of July near Atlanta. There was
1800 captured with me, 11 of my company. We was taken to Camp Sumpter prison near
Andersonville, GA, kept there till the 13th of Sept., then moved here to Florence, South
Carolina. I want you to write often (this next line is illegible due to the crease in the
paper where it had been folded and it's age) I have been prisoner. Please send me a
box containing one pair pants, shirt, pocket knife, pencil, paper, one half gallon tin
bucket of butter, ___________, pepper, salt, needle, thread, ink. Rodman and Kite are here
and wants a box similar to mine. Address to W.C. Morgan, Co. E 53rd Ind. Prisoner of War
at Florence, South Carolina 8th thousand 3rd hundred (we do not know what these numbers
are supposed to mean).
I want you to write a few lines to Mrs. Catherine Schleicher, New Providence and tell her
son, Fred, is well and wishes her to send him a box of provisions with a ___________,
shirt, socks, __________ book and a __________, and tell her how to direct the box.
Yours very affectionally, W.C. Morgan
Have father to get those things for you.
(NOTE: The blanks are for words that we could not decipher)