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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Lieutenant Charlie Pierce's daring attempts to escape from Johnson's Island. (search)
Lieutenant Charlie Pierce's daring attempts to escape from Johnson's Island. By Lieutenant M. Mcnamara. Early in November, 1863, after General Lee had successfully driven Meade across the Rapidan back to Centreville, and retired with his entire prisoners were taken to the Old Capitol prison, where they were confined three days, when the officers were sent to Johnson's Island and the privates to Point Lookout. As soon as the captured officers reached their future prisons, the bouyancy ofopularity proved disastrous to his future operations, as he was known and constantly watched by the prison spies. Johnson's Island, it will be rembered, is three miles from Sandusky, Ohio, and about thirty miles from the Canada shore. There is, hany surprise. He was then taken before Colonel Charles W. Hill, of the 112th Ohio, then commandant of the prison at Johnson's Island, who showed himself a humane and considerate officer, and who frankly admitted the prisoner's right to attempt to es
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prison life at Fort McHenry. (search)
he summer of 1863, to partake. At the time of my first introduction, it was used principally as a place of rendezvous for detachments of Confederate prisoners on their way to permanent places of imprisonment at Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, Johnson's Island, &c. Prisoners brought in from the lines of the Army of the Potomac in small detachments were here assorted and sent away, the officers to Johnson's Island and Fort Delaware, the privates to Point Look-out, &c.--detachments being often heJohnson's Island and Fort Delaware, the privates to Point Look-out, &c.--detachments being often held for a week or two until suitable arrangements could be made for them at some of the more populous, if not more popular places of resort. Now it chanced that after the battle of Gettysburg a number of surgeons and chaplains found their way along with other prisoners to this point d'appui, having either been detailed for hospital service and left behind on the retreat from Pennsylvania, or having voluntarily remained with the wounded and dying of their commands. If any one should ask me h
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prison life at Fort McHenry. (search)
ts for cooking and serving it, and we came away with the impression that (although we had been constantly reminded at Fort McHenry that our lot was a favored one compared with that of our fellow prisoners at Fort Baltimore, Point Lookout and Johnson's Island) these men in the Libby prison were faring like princes as compared with the life we had been required to lead at Fort McHenry. Second. Even if it could be shown that there was as great or greater privation in Southern prisons than in Nor The responsibility for all the suffering on both sides is with those who steadfastly refused either to propose or to accept an honorable cartel. And as in all succeeding time, under the influence of heated imaginations, the spectres of Andersonville and Point Lookout, of Libby prison and Johnson's Island will be rising up to disturb the equanimity of the historian, the South will be able to say with truth to each one as it rises-- Shake not thy gory locks at me, Thou canst not say I did it.