Copy of a letter from W. B. Spoor, a Confederate imprisoned at F. Delaware, to his brother in the 11th Vermont Regiment, defending the South, July 19, 1863. The copy was included with a note from W. S. Richards to his wife in West Concord, Vt., July 28, 1863.

Austin O. Spoor of Alburgh, Vt., was born on March 26, 1842. He enlisted as a Private in Co. K, 11th Vermont Regiment, on August 9, 1862. He was taken prisoner at Weldon Railroad, Va., on June 23, 1864, was paroled on November 26 of that year, and was mustered out of the service on June 24, 1865. He died on December 23, 1907, and was buried in Green Mtn. Cemetery in Burlington, Vt.