United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and Prisons
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85140264
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Francis Bartow Bevill papers
File — Box WSC002: [Barcode: 1006241709], Folder: W0150.11
Scope and Contents
This collection of papers and photographs deals primarily with Fort Warren, Massachusetts and Francis Bartow Bevill's time there as a prisoner of war.
Dates:
1860 - 2007
Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund broadside, circa 1864
File — Box WSC002: [Barcode: 1006241709], 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