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- GLC#
- GLC06559.028-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 28 August 1864
- Author/Creator
- Ekings, Thomas, fl. 1862-1864
- Title
- to Sarah Ogden
- Place Written
- Charleston, South Carolina
- Pagination
- 1 p. : envelope Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 12.7 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes he was wounded and taken prisoner on 8 May at Spotsylvania, Virginia. Says he was shot in the left knee, but the bone was not hit. He was sent to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, and escaped on the first of July, but was soon recaptured and sent to Macon, Georgia. He was then transported to a jail in Charleston, South Carolina, where he was offered parole and removed to the Roper Hospital. He is in good health, and states, "no bad effects resulted from my wound."
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