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- Tags: Prisons
A Voice from Rebel Prisons, 1865
Tags: Battle Description, Prisons, Race relations, Soldiers
"ESCAPING UNION OFFICERS SUCCORED BY SLAVES", March 12, 1864
The sketch on page 164 represents a party of the
Union officers who lately escaped from Libey prison,
under the guidance and protection of negroes living
in the environs of Richmond. They are conducted
by one of these poor slaves to his cabin…
Tags: Battle Description, Enlistment, Freedpeople, Prisons, slavery, Slaves, soldier
Federal Monument, Salisbury National Cemetery
Tags: Cemetery, National Government, Prisoners, Prisons, Salisbury
Salisbury Baseball Match
Louis Brown, The Salisbury Prison (1992)
Tags: Prisons
"The Land Attack on Wilmington - Defence and Fall of Fort Fisher," Charleston Mercury, January 18, 1865
THE LAND ATTACK ON WILMINGTON - DEFENCE AND FALL OF FORT FISHER Our community was much depressed yesterday by the news, which reaches here in the forenoon that Fort Fisher, the gate of the Cape Fear River, had succumbed to another tremendous…
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Daniel Lindsay Russell, Jr., 1845-1908

Daniel Russell, a former Confederate soldier, became disillusioned by Southern leadership during the Civil War and joined the Republican Party in…