Additions to Skedaddle Site

More Statements by Civil War POWs

 

Kentucky

      A. R. Calhoun, Captain

Maine

   4th Maine Infantry

      Hiram J. Neal, Private

Maryland

   2d Maryland Infantry

      Charles F. Pfounstiel, Private

New York

   9th New York Cavalry

      William D. Foote, recalled for additional information

Ohio

   124th Ohio Infantry

      William W. Wilcox, Private,

 

More POW statements

Statements of Civil War POWs

 

Kansas

   8th Kansas Infantry

      Frank Eichelberger, Private

Massachusetts

   1st Massachusetts cavalry

      Alfred P. Jones, Sergeant

Michigan

   27th Michigan Infantry

      George Dingman, Private

New York

   9th New York Cavalry

      William D. Foote, Private

   16th New York Infantry

      Charles H. Allen, Private

   43d New York Infantry

      Daniel McMann, Private

   48th New York

      Walter S. Smith, Private

Ohio

   21st Ohio Volunteers

      Robert Morrison, Private

 

Prisoner Depositions

Joseph Grinder, Private, 3d East Tennessee Infantry
Jackson O. Broshers, Private, 65th Indiana
William M Smith, Corporal, 8th Kentucky

William M. Smith

A Federal Railroad Adventure - more material

A Federal Railroad Adventure - more material

The Locomotive Chase in Georgia

A Meeting with the President from "Glimpses of Lincoln in War Time"

A Federal Railroad Adventure - more material

Added the following to A Federal Railroad Adventure:

finished "Ohio Boys In Dixie - twenty-two scouts sent to destroy a railroad" with the following pages.

Corporal William Reddick, Company B, 33d Regiment Ohio Volunteers; and
Private William Bensinger, Company G, 21st Regiment Ohio Volunteers,
Certification of Depositions by Justice of the Peace N. Callan
Award of Medals and Promotion of the Soldiers

A Federal Railroad Adventure - more material

Added the following:

Report of the Judge Advocate General to the Secretary of War

Testimony - Depositions taken at the office of the Judge Advocate General of the Army, in the City of Washington, on the 24th of March, 1863, before N. Callan, Justice of the Peace, in compliance with the written instructions of the Secretary of War.

Corporal William Pittenger, Company G, 2d Regiment Ohio Volunteers;
The Great Railroad Chase - From The Southern Confederacy of April 19,1862. (article that Pittenger hid on his person virtually the entire duration of his imprisonment)

Private Jacob Parrot, Company K 33d Regiment Ohio Volunteers;
Private Robert Buffum, Company H, 21st Regiment Ohio Volunteers

A Federal Railroad Adventure - more material

A Federal Railroad Adventure

added:

Ohio Boys In Dixie, Mark Wood's and Alfred Wilson's Story - twenty-two scouts sent to destroy a railroad

December 3, 1862.— Prisoner Transfer List

April 22, 1863.— Prisoners Furloughed Waiting Exchange

October 17, 1864 — Medals of Honor

A Federal Railroad Adventure

In 1862, 24 men set out on a daring adventure behind enemy lines.

A Federal Railroad Adventure

This section of Skedaddle currently has 1 article, Federal Bridge-Burning Expedition
from the British periodical The Monthly Packet, reprinted in Littell's Living Age, April 29, 1865

Currently adding Related Material from the The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

April 7-12, 1862.— Raid on Confederate line of communications between Chattanooga, Tenn., and Marietta, Ga.

No. 1. -- Report of the Judge-Advocate-General U. S. Army.
No. 2. -- Letter from Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell, U. S. Army.
No. 3. -- Miscellaneous Confederate reports and correspondence.
June18, 1862.— Letter from Survivors to Jefferson Davis

March 31, 1863.— Letters and other correspondence, one of which was written by J. J. Andrews two days before his execution

April 3, 1863.— Statement of Two Who Escaped

April 7- May 24, 1863.— Concerning Two Who Escaped