LETTERS FROM THE NOTORIOUS LIBBY PRISON (CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) Cesnola, Luigi...

cesnola palma libby prison luigi sent wife letter scarce letters mary 1863 york notorious signed american civil officers 1832-1904 responds receive rivarolo canavese send thing morning christmas shortly vermin time war--new isabel folds brief excised cavalry dated bears lines autograph october italian exchange fading warns received badly shirts armies with--one canavesani detailed permitted richmond 11th kept roversi serve later june release july prisoner delivered august suffering confinement december rolled avail scarcely cold present biography describes hopes just days honor want using march 1901 formats minor tears annotations apparently italian-born colonel battle aldie privations frustration news father postscript confederate nation''s people shirt washing remaining weather lose life fever sickness commissioners blanket floor saturday sunday suppose reason getting adjutant maryland overcrowded rooms 1864--recuperating union hospital mentions efforts clean write italian-americans noted collector cypriot antiquities published account various cesnola's affecting captured imprisonment censor defending agree ridiculous able window smallpox spreads destruction noteworthy group pages granddaughter portion text 1863-1864 wounded john higgins underclothings meetings cruelly talk near room forbids awful ricordi author