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Box WSC002

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund broadside, circa 1864

 File — Box: WSC002, Folder: W0150.08
Scope and Contents This broadside describes the conditions under which many Southern prisoners of war were suffering and solicits financial support from Southerners living in Europe during the Civil War. The Fund was intended to "mitigate some of these sufferings" although it acknowledged that some of the suffering could not be relieved.
Dates: circa 1864
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / W-0150, A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's small Civil War manuscript & artifact collections