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Library of Congress1876

In the Senate of the United States. February 21, 1876. -- Agreed to and ordered to be printed. Mr. Clayton, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following report: The Committee on Military Affairs, to whom was referred the petition of John McFarland, late a private of Company E, Sixty-fourth Regiment Ohio Infantry, praying for an honorable discharge from said regiment, and for pay and allowances while a prisoner of war at Andersonville, Ga., have considered the same, and submit the following report

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Library of Congress1880

Fast and loose in Dixie. An unprejudiced narrative of personal experience as a prisoner of war at Libby, Macon, Savannah, and Charleston, with an account of a desperate leap from a moving train of cars, a weary tramp of forty-five days through swamps and mountains, places and people visited, etc., etc.

The writer was captured at Drewry's Bluff, May, 1864, and subsequently confined at Libby, Macon, Savannah and Charleston. He escaped in October, and the greater part of the book is devoted to his adventures in reaching the Union lines. Also available in digital form.

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Library of Congress1884

The War of the Rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Series I, volume XI, part I. Reports

Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

united states↗
Library of Congress1885

The War of the Rebellion : a compilation of the official records of the Union and Confederate armies. Series I, volume XI, part III. Correspondence, etc

Official records produced by the armies of the United States and the Confederacy, and the executive branches of their respective governments, concerning the military operations of the Civil War, and prisoners of war or prisoners of state. Also annual reports of military departments, calls for troops, correspondence between national and state governments, correspondence between Union and Confederate officials. The final volume includes a synopsis, general index, special index for various military divisions, and background information on how these documents were collected and published. Accompanied by an atlas.

united states↗