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Autograph letter signed. One page in ink, plus a half-page postscript from 1882 on the back. 24.8x18.8 cm (9¾x7½"); with original envelope, Johnson's Island return addressed, sent to Montgomery, Alabama, via Fort Monroe, with canceled three-cent stamp. Letter from Albert Taylor Goodwyn, who after the Civil War was to court and marry Priscilla Cooper Tyler, granddaughter of President John Tyler, to his parents while he was a prisoner of Union forces on Johnson's Island. The letter reads in part: "Dear Father and Mother, …Lieut Jones arrived here, direct from the regiment…and regretted to hear that Bro. Sam was severely wounded in the fight near Resucer(?), and hopes you will write and give particulars as to his condition… I am doing well at present and amuse myself by writing to different lady correspondents in Kentucky. They have proved very useful to me, and furnished many needed articles. I received yesterday a box of eatables from Woodford Co. Ky. which contained ten pounds of ___? Cake, strawberry preserves, pickels, ham and other luxuries…” With note added by A.T. Goodwyn in 1882, “This letter was written while a prisoner of war at Johnson’s Island… I was captured on the battlefield of Missionary Ridge, November 1863, and was taken to the island where I remained until June 1865… I was Captain in the 58th Alabama Regiment CSA when I was captured with almost my entire command…” Provenance: Descended in the Tyler-Goodwyn family.