The Immortal 600 at Gettysburg
Most of the approximately 5,000 Confederate prisoners who were captured at Gettysburg, including Brigadier General James J. Archer, were sent to Fort Delaware on Pea Patch Island, just south of Wilmington in the middle of the Delaware River. Some of those prisoners would eventually be sent to prisons at Point Lookout (MD), Elmira (NY), or,
Full List of the Immortal 600 (long)
Following is the complete list of the “Immortal 600,” a group of Confederate officers in captivity who were held as human shields in the line of friendly fire in Charleston Harbor and then subjected to some of the most inhumane treatment of POWs that was ever documented in the Civil War. (This previous post focused specifically
Deaths at the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion
Described as a “identification tag,” this card was issued to each of the 22,103 veterans from Pennsylvania who attended the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in 1913. (Some other states issued similar ones to its attending veterans). The veteran was asked to carry it in his pocket “in case of sickness or accident.”
Examples of Enlisted Black Confederates
The question of whether there were black soldiers in the Confederate Army is one of the most heated subjects on Civil War blogs and social media sites. Some claim that that there were as many as 90,000 black soldiers in the Confederate army prior to 1865. This claim, supported by a few posed photos
Analysis of the Soldiers & Sailors Database
The National Park Service maintains the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System (CWSS) which is a database of the men who served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War. In the context of a larger project, I wondered how many soldiers served from each state so I did a geographic analysis of
