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Confederate prisoners list

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Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1865 March 10-30.
Call number: mssHM 37863
Provenance: Provenance unknown. In library as of January 1994.
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Paroles of Honor and Lists of Prisoners

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The collection, which deals with the Mexican War, consists of correspondence, military orders, reports, lists of prisoners, and paroles of honor. Participants include: William Orlando Butler, Sylvester Churchill, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, George W. Hughes, Joseph E. Johnston, William L. Marcy, Thomas Marshall, Dixon S. Miles, Henry Lee Scott, Winfield Scott, Lorenzo Thomas, Henry J. Wilson, the Adjutant-General's Office, and the U. S. Inspector General's Office. The material deals with: troop movements, food and supplies, recruiting and enlistments, mustering of volunteers, as well as Jalapa, Puebla, Tampico, and Veracruz, Mexico. Also included are 31 paroles and lists of Mexican prisoners captured in the spring of 1847 and at the Battle of Cerro Gordo. The collection also contains the signed paroles of Brigadier Generals Anastasio Torrejón, and Antonio Gaona of the Mexican Army.

mssHM 64970-65036

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James prison list

Manuscripts

This collection contains the papers of Gloria Molina, who was a Los Angeles County Supervisor of the First Supervisorial District from 1991 to 2014. This collection is mainly comprised of records created and accumulated during her years on the Board of Supervisors. These materials -- including correspondence, agenda, motions, reports, press clippings, notes, ephemera, site plans, photographs, audiovisual and electronic resources -- document a wide range of activities performed by Molina and her staff, such as project planning, legislation, lawsuits, redistricting, campaigning, and budget planning.

mssMolina

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A chapter on prison life : Experiences of a Confederate private in a federal war prison

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318850

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How a Confederate officer escaped from Prison : Scenes in New Orleans during the summer of the last year of the war

Manuscripts

1920s copy of Wilkinson's reminiscences about his escape from the Union prison submitted to the Philadelphia Weekly Times, probably between 1887 and 1890.

mssHM 69430

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A list of Confederate States officers who are prisoners, held by federal authority, on Morris Island, S.C., under Confederate fire, from Sept. 7th to Oct. 21st 1864

Manuscripts

Brock's collection of papers and manuscripts relating to political, military, economic, religious, social, and genealogical history of the state of Virginia. Included are papers of prominent Virginia families, business firms and businessmen, religious and fraternal organizations, government offices and departments, politicians, statesmen, and administrators.

BR 582

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Memorial of the federal prison on Johnson's Island, Lake Erie, Ohio, 1862-1864 : containing a list of prisoners of war, from the Confederate States army, and of the deaths among them ; with "prison lays" by distinguished officers

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50326

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