The transcribed manuscript is a letter from Henry Marshall Misemer to his wife Martha Jane Misemer. The letter is dated March 28th, 1865, when the Union soldier H. M. Misemer, is imprisoned. H. M. Misemer (spelling variant: Misener) enlisted on April 26th, 1863 in the Third Regiment, Cavalry, Company F. On September 24th, 1864 he was captured and then imprisoned in Cahaba Prison by the Confederacy (McCammon Appendix). The Third Cavalry surrendered on September 24th, 1864 under the commanding of Col. W. Campbell to Major General N.B. Forrest at Athens, Atlanta (McCammon 134). Amongst the Union soldiers taken prison on that day were 150 men of the Third Tennessee Cavalry (McCammon 135). When H. M. Misemer writes this letter to his wife, he is currently held captive at a camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi; presumably Camp Fisk (vgl. Salecker 60). Prior to that he must have been at Cahaba Prison since he mentions that he was sick when he was there. This transcription and its attendant annotations, explanatory material, and bibliography were prepared by students in ENGL 618: Research Methods in English, the required gateway class for the MA in English at Western Carolina University.