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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 1 Collection or Record:

Alonzo Van Vlack papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-0166
Abstract

Typed transcripts and one handwritten letter from a Union soldier to his parents while he was a prisoner of war at Cahaba Prison in Dallas County, Alabama, and at a parole camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi. There are also typed transcriptions of manuscripts describing prison life and the explosion of the Steamer Sultana.

Dates: 1864-1865