This 1865 report by Alfred S. Roe details his experience as a prisoner of war (POW) during the American Civil War. The document is a questionnaire from the Office of War Prisoners' Division of the New York Bureau of Military Record. The first section asks numerous questions about Roe's capture and general experience as a Union POW in Confederate prisons, primarily at Danville, Virginia. The second section contains a letter from Roe addressed to Colonel A. J. H. Duganne, Historian of U. S. Prisoners of War for the Office of War Prisoners' Division. In this letter, Roe goes into more detail about the treatment and conditions that he and the other POWs faced during their confinement.

The collection also includes a transcription of the letter.