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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC02236 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents 1865 |
| Title | Roger Atkinson Pryor writing as a prisoner of to Robert M. T. Hunter for help in getting out of prison |
| Date | 3 February 1865 |
| Author | Pryor, Roger Atkinson (1828-1919) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Writes as a prisoner of war and requests Confederate Senator Hunter's help in getting out of prison. " ... McLean has called upon me to-day, with the generous proffer of an endeavour to procure my release. Will you contribute to that object? I am anxious beyond expression to return to my dear, beloved South; and if it be possible that you can do anything in this behalf, you will infinitely oblige." Written from Fort Lafayette, New York. Many pencil notes on verso. Pryor, Confederate soldier from Virginia, was confined on 29 November 1864 at Fort Lafayette, Virginia and paroled on 15 February 1865 for exchange. |
| Subjects | Civil War Military History Confederate General or Leader Confederate States of America Confederate Soldier's Letter Soldier's Letter Prisoner of War Union Forces |
| People | Pryor, Roger Atkinson (1828-1919) Hunter, Robert Mercer Taliaferro (1809-1887) |
| Place written | New York, New York |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Law |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Pryor, Confederate soldier from Virginia, he was confined on 29 November 1864 at Fort Lafayette, Virginia and paroled on 15 February 1865 for exchange. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |