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D. H. Hill, Jr., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 4, North Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 57 1 Browse Search
Jubal Anderson Early, Ruth Hairston Early, Lieutenant General Jubal A. Early , C. S. A. 30 4 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 30 0 Browse Search
George H. Gordon, From Brook Farm to Cedar Mountain 26 0 Browse Search
Robert Lewis Dabney, Life and Commands of Lieutenand- General Thomas J. Jackson 24 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 31. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 22 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 37. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 16 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 16 0 Browse Search
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government 15 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 12 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: August 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Johnson's Island — the Confederate prisoners there. (search)
f he chooses, and good swimmers have an opportunity to test their skill in aquatic exercises, taking care to keep within the range of the guard's gun, always at command, should any attempt to reach the opposite shore, three miles distant. The island has a garrison of four hundred soldiers under the command of Major Pearson, who has had charge of the island since it became a rendezvous for prisoners. Dr. Woodbridge is the Surgeon, Mr. McCuue Chaplain, and E. A. Keeth, Steward. Generals Archer and Jones are the only rebel officers now on the island holding that rank. General Jones is a Virginian by birth, and was captured at the battle of Gettysburg. His brother is a merchant at St. Paul, Minnesota. Colonel Humphrey, captured at Champion's Station, Mississippi, owns three plantations at Port Gibson, worth more than $3,000,000. Many others are men of larger property. In the cells are nine men confined under sentence of death. Seven of these are spies and two deser