LIST OF THE IMMORTALS.
The six hundred Confederate officers who were placed upon Morris Island, South Carolina, under the fire of their own guns shelling that point, and subsequently starved upon 10 ounces of rotten corn meal and pickle at Hilton Head and Fort Pulaski, Georgia, by order of the United States authorities, 1864–65.
Name | Rank | Regiment | Captured | DateResidence |
W. W. Goldsboro | Major | 1st Md. | Gettysburg, Pa., July 4, 1863 | Baltimore, Md. |
Geo. Howard[1] | Capt. | 1st Md. Cav. | Hawes Shop, Va., May 27, '63 | Baltimore, Md. |
W. H. Griffin | Capt.„ | B. B. | Yellow Tavern, May 27, 1864 | Baltimore, Md. |
Eugene Diggs | Capt.„ | 2d Md. Cav. | Martinsburg, October, 1863 | Port Tobacco |
E. J. Duly | Lieut. | 1st Md. Cav. | Hanover Jct., Va., May, 1864 | |
J. E. V. Pue | Lieut.„ | 1st Md. Cav. | Gettysburg, Pa., July, 1863 | Ellicott's Mills |
Virginia. | ||||
Name | Rank | Regiment | Captured | DateResidence |
C. B. Christian | Lieut. Col. | 49th Va. Inft. | Cold H'b'r, Va., May 30, '64 | Amherst Co., Va. |
J. Calvin Council | Lieut. Col.„ | 26th Va. Inft. | Petersburg, Va., June 15, 1864 | St. Stephens Ch., Va. |
Richard Woodman | Major | 26th Va. Inft. | Cold Harbor, May 30, 1864 | Union, Monroe Co. |
- ↑ Exchanged Hilton Head.
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