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THBScarce POW Letter From Elmira Prison
Lot 168
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Raynor's Historical Collectible Auctions
1687 West Buck Hill Road
Burlington, NC 27215
United States
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Fascinating Americana Auction offering item in all periods of American history., from colonial through WWII. The items are offered as Autographs, Broadsides, Civil Wat Relics, Civil War Diaries, Confederate items. Political, Presidential, 20th Century Israel, Early Sports. Raynor's Historical Collectible Auctions bob@hcaauctions.com
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A confederate Prisoner of War written by “D.W. Bush, Prisoner of War’. Datelined: Elmira Prison, Dec. 24, 1864, written to Mr. A J. Peck. In part, “I now take leave to ask you for a small box of eatables, as my health compels me to highly appreciate it and hope to reward you the first opportunity ...†On July 6, 1864, the first Confederate prisoners entered the gates of barracks number three in Elmira, New York. Prisoner exchange agreements had broken down in the summer of 1863, when the Confederacy refused to treat captured African American soldiers the same as white soldiers. Suddenly, both the Union and Confederate armies were forced to find places to hold captured men for long periods. Elmira was the site of four barracks to gather and train Union soldiers during the war, but by 1864 Barracks Three was no longer in use, making it available to house Confederate prisoners. The men who entered the camp that day, and the many who joined them later, had no idea that their new residence would come to be regarded as the worst of the Union prison camps. Of the 12,122 Confederates held at Elmira, 2,933 would never return home. Elmira’s death rate of 24% was the highest of any Union prison camp, leading to comparisons with the notorious Andersonville, a Confederate prison where 28% of the Union soldiers died.
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