Your Friend Chas. Smedley
Your Friend Chas. Smedley
LIFE
IN
SOUTHERN PRISONS;
FROM THE DIARY OF
CORPORAL CHARLES SMEDLEY,
Of Company G, 90th Regiment Penn'a Volunteers,
COMMENCING A FEW DAYS BEFORE THE "BATTLE OF THE
WILDERNESS," IN WHICH HE WAS TAKEN PRISONER, IN
THE EVENING OF FIFTH MONTH FIFTH, 1864:
ALSO,
A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE MARCH TO
AND BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG,
TOGETHER WITH A
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.
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"If it is never to be my lot to return to you, remember me only as one who
went to do his duty."—C. Smedley. Letter to parents, dated 8th mo. 14th, 1862.
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PUBLISHED BY
THE LADIES' AND GENTLEMEN'S FULTON AID SOCIETY.
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PEARSOL & GEIST, PRINTERS, DAILY EXPRESS OFFICE.
1865.
April 7th, 1865. At a regular meeting of the Fulton Aid Society, "New Business" being in order, the following resolutions were offered and unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the "Fulton Aid Society" request of the friends of the late Charles Smedley, that a copy of his diary, kept while a prisoner at Andersonville, Georgia, be furnished for the purpose of publication.
Resolved, That a Committee consisting of four members of the association be appointed to receive the manuscript, prepare it for publication, and that it be authorized to have printed an edition of four hundred copies for the use of the Society.
In conformity with the above resolutions, the following were appointed the Committee:
CHAS. H. STUBBS, M. D., Chairman.
JAMES H. CLARK,
ANNIE SMEDLEY,
ELWOOD SMEDLEY.
