Yes, it has been published several times in family history books. I will also include the account in my next novel set in Spanish Fort, AL, and plans are in the works for publication in a local genealogical society's quarterly journal. The writer, Judge James Benjamin Rawls, was 16 and a member of the Mobile Home Guard when Mayor Slough surrendered the city of Mobile to Canby. Rawls was captured by the Union troops, imprisoned in the old Hitchcock Cotton Press building at the end of Government Street, and was released after Lee's surrender.

In his account of the Battle of Mobile Bay and the surrender of Mobile, Rawls mentions "Battery Enge" and "Videtti in Whistler, AL". I'm am not familiar with Enge or the person named Videtti. I was hoping to find some explanations before I include and discuss this material in my novel or in a quarterly.

By the way, I think the original handwritten letter in now in the Museum of Mobile and can be viewed by asking to see it.