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301 Series II Volume VII- Serial 120 - Prisoners of War

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CINCINNATI, OHIO, June 1, 1864.

Colonel J. P. SANDERSON:

SIR: I have the honor to state you that I wrote to you yesterday morning, as per instructions, and will continue to, and should you fail to receive one daily you will note the missing one, the subjects of the one preceding and succeeding it, and I will endeavor to supply it.

I have been most fortunate so far--much above my most sanguine expectations. This house (Merchants' Hotel) is "all right. " One of the proprietors (Gallagher) is from near Maysville, Ky. He damns the "blue-bellied Yankees" fearfully. This house was patronized by Vallandigham when here. It is still rebel headquarters.

I have formed considerable acquaintance with transient men, principally from Kentucky--one (I. N. Shepherd) residing at Lexington, Ky., who is a communicative, intelligent rebel, who invited me to see him and pointed out to me the proprietor of the Broadway Hotel at L., and told me to stop with him when I first arrived. He represents Kentucky as depressed in feeling, but only lacking the watchword for blood and revolution--only needing a rallying point and a leader. Negroes are quitting the plow and taking up the musket by thousands, he says. He and others think McClellan unpopular throughout Kentucky. They are afraid of his policy--saying he would make a vigorous prosecution of the war and never recognize the Confederacy. Fernando Wood and S. Cox are the favorites. They are gloating over the prospect of division in the Republican ranks.

Honorable Brutus J. Clay (a gentleman from Paris, Ky., tells me) went to Washington a staunch Republican. He owns about 140 slaves in "old Bourbon. " This man says Clay was assured he would get old prices for these 140, if the Government was necessitated to take them with other people's. This makes him Republican. He is now at home and, this man says, tells his constituents that he is now for the South, heart and hand; that Kentucky has now nothing left her but to fight; that her


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