"The cause of my sorrow dates further back than my capture and confinement in prison.

I know that I am not the only one who has suffered during this rebellion; but mine is a peculiar case.

I have not known a happy day since the war commenced.
Every tie that bound me to earth was severed when the first gun was fired on Fort Sumter." "Ah!" exclaimed Frank, guessing the truth at once.

"Then your relatives are rebels." "Yes, they are; and the most bitter kind of rebels, too.

I have kept my secret until I can no longer endure it.