"On that fateful day, January 11, 1863, a week and a half after posting that letter to Emeline, PVT Moses McSpadden Buckner, his little brother, James, and all of his brothers-in-law and cousins, were captured and taken prisoner while stationed at Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post. The entire family arrived at the Prisoner of War camp on January 31, 1863 at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois. Shortly after arriving, on March 1, 1863, Moses' brother, James, died at twenty-five years of age. Eleven days later, on March 12, 1863, thirty-four-year-old Moses died of Small Pox."
