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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 of opularity 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, h any 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)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Prison life at Fort McHenry . (search)