Showing posts with label Prisoners Of War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prisoners Of War. Show all posts

Sunday, March 30, 2008

News From St. Louis

A party of Paymasters with funds to replace those lost on the Steamer Ruth is making up to leave here next week, to pay Gen. Grant's army. They will leave here about Wednesday.

Three hundred Missourians captured at Vickburg, who have taken the oath of allegiance, are confined in the Gratiot Street Prison, awaiting orders from Washington.

- Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, August 15, 1863

Monday, February 18, 2008

Rebel Prisoners Arrive at Rock Island

Four hundred and sixty-eight rebel prisoners captured in Chattanooga arrived in Rock Island on the 3d inst.

- Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, December 12, 1863