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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 2 Collections and/or Records:

Francis Bartow Bevill papers

 File — Box WSC002: [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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / W-0150, A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's small Civil War manuscript & artifact collections

Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund broadside, circa 1864

 File — Box WSC002: [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
Found in: The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections / W-0150, A. S. Williams III Americana Collection's small Civil War manuscript & artifact collections