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    the remains of his gallant brother, Col. Stover Funk, commanding the old Stonewall Brigade, who was mortally wounded, almost in sight of his home, near the close of the war. Billy Funk was a good Christian man. God bless the mothers of the South who gave such boys to the cause of right.

We had not less than two hundred of our number at Fort Pulaski suffering with dysentery and scurvy. At one time many died and were buried in the graveyard of the fort.

The officers and men of the 127th New York Volunteers were, from Colonel Brown down the line, clever, humane men. They felt our condition and did whatever they dared to alleviate our suffering. The doctor in charge of our prison medical department was a kindhearted man; I regret his name has gone from me, but his kindness to our suffering men will never be forgotten. Often, in these days of peace and plenty, the days of the ordeal of 1864-5 at Pulaski, comes