[POW] 8 April 1865 Danville Prison Final Order

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Day 2: Civil War & Militaria

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Apr 26, 2025

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Fleischer's Auctions is pleased to present Day 2 of our 2025 Spring Premier Auction featuring early American artifacts and militaria from the Revolutionary War to World War 2, especially fine items from the American Civil War. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com

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  Autograph document signed by Asst. Adjutant General Samuel T. Bayly. Head Quarters Comg. Genl. Prisons, Danville, Virginia, 8 April 1865. 1 page, 4to. Docketed to verso, with faded War Records stamp. 

   

  An order sent by Assistant Adjutant General Samuel T. Bayly commanding "preparation for the reception of twelve hundred Federal Prisoners at this place. You will have the buildings now under your charge properly cleaned and ventilated and you will notify the Commissary that you will require rations for this number of prisoners." 

   

  Sent just the day before Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, making this the final order for the Confederate prison at Danville. Between 1863 and the end of the war, Danville held up to 7,000 Union prisoners of war in converted prison buildings, including a former tobacco factory

   

  [Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs] [Prisoner of War, POW, Andersonville, Libby Prison]

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