 Fellow Confederate prisoners, General Cabell and Major Cariton wrote several letters to Union authorities at St. Louis on behalf of Major Wolf while he was under sentence of death.Captain Allen furnished Major Wolf with pen, ink, and paper, and he wrote a letter to his wife telling her the sad news and that it had fallen to his lot to be executed for the wrongs of other men.He told her how to rear his dear children and to take care of what he had left her.