United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Rufus Clay Barringer papers
Collection — Box SFC2 [F09.090.02.02], Folder: 223
Identifier: MS0223
Abstract
Items relating to Confederate General and Charlottean Rufus Clay Barringer. Photocopies of newspaper and periodical articles and a copy of Barringer's diary while imprisoned at Fort Delaware in 1865.
Dates:
1863 - 1995; 1863 - 1993
William Wallace Beard Civil War letters
Collection
Identifier: MS0597
Abstract
Collection consists largely of letters written by William Wallace Beard, a member of the Mississippi 18th Regiment in the Confederate Army. The letters are written during his time as a soldier in the United States Civil War largely from different sites around Virginia. It includes 32 letters (30 of which are from Beard and 2 of which are from Col. A.P. Hill) and one furlough document.
Dates:
1861-08 - 1865-04
James H. Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0444
Abstract
This collection of two items (a diary recorded in 1864 and 1865, and a New Testament) were the property of James H. Evans, of Company F, 7th Wisconsin Volunteers. Evans was taken prisoner and incarcerated at the POW Camp in Salisbury, NC. He died on January 28, 1865.
A few of the diary entries that merit particular attention are for May 5 and 6, 1864 (the days when Evans saw combat and was taken prisoner), November 25 (an attempted prison break-out), Sunday, December 18 (when three men...
Dates:
1864 - 1865
