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Tag Archives: prison
28 February 1865: “SALISBURY* you’ve left behind you, and the dead line and stockade! You have suffered great privations–they can never be repaid!”
Item Description: A poem written by George G. B. DeWolfe, known as “The Wandering Poet of New Hampshire,” for Union soldiers recently paroled from the Confederate prison at Salisbury, North Carolina. Item Citation: DeWolfe, George G. B. “Lines for the … Continue reading
11 December 1864: “they shot fifteen at once, with one ball”
Item Description: Diary entry dated 11 December 1864 by Sarah Lois Wadley. She writes about her various social engagements from the previous weeks. In particular, she recounts a meeting with a Confederate soldier. She also writes about attending at dance … Continue reading
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Tagged dances, dancing, diary, letters, prison, Sarah Lois Wadley, social conditions, social life
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14 October 1864: “He will never be fit for service again, he is so wrecked.”
Item Description: A letter from Seraphina Brooks Flowers to Miss Bell regarding her trip to visit her sick son in prison. He was imprisoned in Rock Island, Illinois. She also discusses other family news, and her plans to travel back south. … Continue reading
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Tagged arrest, Civil War, Confederate Army, illness, prison, Rock Island, scrofula, Seraphina Flowers, sick
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17 July 1864: “If you can, and will by penning a few words, do that which may lighten the wearisome prison hours of my son”
Item description: Letter from Seraphina Brooks Flowers to Lt. G. C. Lockwood, 17 July 1864. Flowers writes Lockwood, a federal officer, to petition to see her son who was taken prisoner. Item citation: From folder 56 of the Craig, Ferris, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Civil War, Confederate Army, prison, Seraphina Flowers
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