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Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 2 2 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 2 2 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 1 1 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 1 1 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). You can also browse the collection for April, 1891 AD or search for April, 1891 AD in all documents.

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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 20 (search)
Horrors of Camp Morton. [from the Memphis Commercial.] The picture of suffering and hunger not Overdrawn—Rats and cats were Toothsome food, and dog meat could not be Bought—Despair and Death. The article entitled Cold Cheer in Camp Morton, by Dr. John A. Wyeth, of New York city, and published in the Century Magazine, April, 1891, called forth severe criticism from many writers prominent in the North, and this induced Dr. Wyeth to follow up the subject. He thereupon issued a circular-letter to ex-Confederate soldiers requesting such of them as were confined in Camp Morton to furnish him their personal experiences and observations as to the treatment they received. Dr. Thomas E. Spotswood, of Fairford, Ala., who is a grandson of the revolutionary general, Alexander Spotswood, and also a descendant of the Custis family, has written the following letter to Dr. Wyeth, which the Commercial publishes by special permission: In response to your request, published in the Sout
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 18. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Escape of prisoners from Johnson's Island. (search)
Escape of prisoners from Johnson's Island. In an interesting article by Lieutenant J. H. Carpenter, of New Orleans, La., on Prison Life on Johnson's Island, in the Century Magazine for April, 1891, he makes the statement that the prison was so isolated and so well guarded that notwithstanding repeated efforts of the more daring spirits confined there to secure their liberty, not a single escape occurred during the war. This has been proven to be a mistake. Lieutenant T. E. Fell, of Newnan, Georgia, in a communication dated April 5, 1891, and published in the Newnan Herald, gives his personal knowledge of the escape of Captain Robert Cobb Kennedy, of Alabama. Kennedy was a perfect daredevil, and no situation, however perilous, seemed to daunt his courage. Captain Kennedy's escape and subsequent recapture, conviction by a court martial and final execution, are thus described: Few officers of inferior rank figured more conspicuously during the late war than Captain Robert C