Prisoners Depot          Johnsons Island

Near Sandusky May 14^th       1862

 

My Dear Daughter

                        I have written you several letters to which I have received no response. I have only heard from you once & that letter was brought by Doc^t Ordway. I have written mostly by mail & have received but one letter from home through that channel—therefore conclude that under Federal sway it is a very unsafe and unreable medium of communication. But we cant help it now but there is a better day to dawn I pray upon my bleeding & beloved Country.—It may be my Daughter that you have written in your letters some thing contraband—(for I know you have written many letters) and not permited to be read by and imprisoned Father from his youngest daughter. Every thing must be sugar-coated to pass the [?] eyes of Federal officials—therefore my Dear Daughter I would advise you to suppress the feelings of a [?] da woman of our beloved South—and a devoted Daughter—& write nothing but how you & the other children & family / are geting on—and praise Yankee liberality & generosity. speak of the increasing Union sentiment and the flaunting of the glorious old flag over your little town & city & the speedy return of the state of your nativity to the rule & dominion of an abolition—emancipation Government

 

May God bless and the rest of children & friends

                                                                       

your Father

Geo W Gordon

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