New Orleans, Sept. 21, 1861

Hon. J.P. Benjamin, Richmond

Dear Sir:

Among the prisoners at Richmond is Capt. G.W. Edge, sent from Fernandina.
He was captain of the ship John Carver, loaded with coal for Key West.
Captain Edge is quite a young man, and dependent entirely upon his wages for
support of a family. He either had to give up command of the ship or obey the
orders of his owners. Captain Edge had been trading for a long time with New
Orleans, and is highly esteemed here by a large number of our shipping merchants.
At the request of several of those friends I write you merely to ask that you will
be kind enough to intercede so far as to (see?) that Captain Edge is placed in as
comfortable a position in his prison as the regulations of the government will
permit, and if there are any prisoners sent this way his friends would be glad
to have him here, and they would provide for him in prison at their expense.

Yours very truly, E. Salomon

Source: "The Republication of the War of Rebellion, Official Records of the Union
and Confederate Armies," The National Historical Society, 1971

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