My Dear Wife-

Again I sit down to write you without having heard from you for 4 months. I can not account for you not writing, or rather for my not receiving your letters, for I know you have not failed to write. And now I appeal to those who, having the supervision, & transmission of truce letters, to allow this to reach you—if for nothing else, on the Love of humanity. Any one having the least spark of humanity, or manly feeling left, if seems to me, could readily comprehend the distress of mind occasioned by a period of 4 months absence of any information whatever, of a dear wife, & child to say nothing of an aged mother. I know it is the fault of those who have control of the mails, for I know you, & mother both have written me- My health is verry good, & I would be content as far as posible here, if I could hear from you, & know that you were well, & know that, you were not distressed like I am for want of information from me- Mr. Nott continues [to] be verry kind, & I do not want for anything- Our treatment is verry good by the prison authorities, but confinement is irksome, & disagreeable- We all hope to be sent home this winter. Aunt Mary of Balto. has sent me a lot of nice things to eat. Embrace my dear boy for me, & tel him when I come home, I will bring him something nice. Give Sister, & all my love—Let mother know if you hear from me. I wrote her a short time ago; but fear she did not receive it. Your devoted husband- Stephen A. Corker Capt

Co. A 3^rd Geo Rgt. Infty. & Prisoner war