MCCWRT Prisons Discussion-- Part 5: Horrible Conditions and Diseases

**  The conditions at Illinois' Rock Island Prison were horrible and om top of that they had a small pox outbreak.

**  At one time, early on in the camp's history, prisoners were even able to leave prison quarters abd go to town at Camp Douglas in Chicago and also in Rock Island.

**  An Iowa regiment dubbed the "Graybeards" because of their advanced age once guarded the Rock Island Prison Camp.  Also the 108th USCT.

**  I forgot which Union prison camp this was, but it might have been Point Lookout in Maryland, but there were 64 barracks there, each with 95 prisoners.

**  At Camp Douglas, an average of 18 prisoners died each day

**  Prisoners died from typhoid fever, pneumonia, measles, mumps and chronic diarrhea (called the Soldiers' Disease).

--Old Secesh

N.C. Family Cemetery Reveals History-- Part 3

 Further Research on JACOB HANES.

Member of 21st N.C. Regt. Onfantry.  Organized at Danville, Virginia and recruited from Davidson, Surry, Forsyth, Stokes, Reddington and Guilford counties in North Carolina.

Fought at Bull Run, Chancellorsville and Gettysburg.

BRYAN JARVIS also listed as Bryant.  Private in the 15th N.C..  Buried in mass grave of 3,384 Confederates at Point Lookout Prison camp.  I imagine there is a marker for him in the N.C. cemetery.

--Old Secesh

N.C. Family Burial Ground Reveals Historic Gems-- Part 2

Among those buried at the cemetery:

THOMAS HANES:  December 26, 1803-Feb. 19, 1879.

Two small white stones with no inscriptions.  Possibly babies.

JACOB HANES: Born Dec. 28, 1828.  Confederate soldier.  Died Richmond, Virginia March 19, 1863.

BRYAN JARVIS SR.:  Feb. 16, 1829-March 16, 1864.  Confederate soldier buried at Point Lookout, Maryland.

--Old Secesh

N.C. Confederates Buried at Arlington-- Part 25: Captured, Exchanged, Wounded, Wounded and Captured Again

JAMES R. SPRY, Private, Co. B, 8th N.C.: Born in Currituck County where he resided as a farmer before enlisting at age 19 on August 5, 1861, for war.  Captured at Roanoke Island on Feb. 8, 1862, and paroled at Elizabeth City on Feb. 20, 1862.  Exchanged at Aikens Landing, James River, Va., on Nov. 10, 1862.

Present or accounted for until wounded near Drewry's Bluff, Va., on or about May 13, 1864.  Rejoined company prior to Sept. 30, 1864.

Wounded in left arm and captured at Fort Harrison, Va..  Hospitalized at Fort Monroe, Va., then transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland around October 5, 1864.  Paroled Point Lookout and transferred to Boulware's Wharf, James River, Va., where he was received March 19, 1865, for exchange.

Died Feb. 12, 1924 and buried at Arlington National Cemetery along with his wife, Mary.

--Old Secesh

The 11th NC's Colonel Leventhorpe-- Part 4: Wounded and a Union Prisoner

Once Col. Collett Leventhorpe was captured during the Confederate retreat from Gettysburg (probably at Falling Waters, Maryland), a Union surgeon tending him detected gangrene and suggested amputation. Leventhorpe refused (and with some medical background since he had studied medicine in Charleston, SC before the war) and had the surgeon cauterize the wounds with nitric acid.

He refused anesthesia, saying he "would have died, rather than let an enemy see that a Confederate officer could not endure anything without a complaint."

Afterwards, his arm discharged bone fragments for three months, but the colonel survived. Fort McHenry (I didn't know this famous War of 1812 fort had been used as a prison during the Civil War) in Baltimore and later Point Lookout were his prisons for eight months before he was exchanged.

During incarceration, friends in England sent money to purchase necessities.

--Old Secesh

The 11th NC at Gettysburg-- Part 4: Couldn't Get to Shade Because of All the Dead and Wounded

ISAAC BYRUM, JR, CO. F-- Wounded in left leg at Gettysburg and captured   His leg was amputated. As related by his granddaughter, "It was a hot day. I tried to drag myself to some shade, but couldn't for all of the wounded and dead laying around.

"Flies were beginning to blow it, so I tore a piece of my shirt and wrapped the wound. It was about sundown when they, the Yanks, picked me up off the field.

"I thought they could have saved the leg if they had picked me up earlier."

As a POW, he was transferred to various prisons until he got to Point Lookout, Maryland. After being paroled and exchanged, he retired to the Invalid Corps on 2 June 1864.

His artificial leg can be seen at the Museum of the Albemarle in North Carolina.

One Confederate's Story. --Old Secesh

The 11th NC at Gettysburg-- Part 3

This is just a partial list of losses for the regiment.

PRIVATE JAMES NEEDHAM ALEXANDER-- Enlisted 1 Feb 1862. Wounded in the left elbow and right forefinger at Gettysburg.

PRIVATE FRANCIS OSTWALT, CO. E-- Captured July 3rd at Gettysburg. Died of smallpox at Point Lookout.

PRIVATE FRANCIS McCONNEL, CO. 1--Captured July 3rd at Gettysburg. Died Dec. 30, 1863, at Point Lookout, Md.

--Old Secesh

The 11th NC at Gettysburg-- Part 1

From the 11th NC Infantry Regiment Descendants Association.

Col. Leventhorpe was wounded and captured. Major Egbert Ross was killed.

PRIVATE JOHN J. KELLER-- Enlisted Feb. 11, 1863, with Co. B. At Gettysburg in Pickett's Charge. Wounded and captured. Confined at Fort Delaware, then taken by train to Pt. Lookout, Maryland around October 15-18, 1863. Died there of smallpox.

PRIVATE CHARLES MORRIS-- Wounded at Whitehall, NC, and captured during the retreat from Gettysburg at Falling Waters.

--Old Secesh

Fort Fisher's Major James Reilly-- Part 1

One of those many, many heroes of the Civil War who are not known to the general public.

Dozens of people gathered at Wilmington's Oakdale Cemetery this last weekend to dedicate a new marker for Major James Reilly who surrendered Fort Fisher, was imprisoned in Maryland (probably Point Lookout). Even though offered a higher position with higher pay, he refused and remained in prison. From Wild Geese Today.

He had the nickname of "Old Tarantula" and was born in Ireland in 1823. After serving in the British Army, and crossed the Atlantic to the United States and joined the U.S.army. He served in the Seminole Indian War and was severely wounded in the Mexican War.


SURRENDERED FORT JOHNSON

On January 7, 1861, while the sole military person at Fort Johnson in Smithville, NC, now Southport, he surrendered Fort Johnson to a large force of North Carolina militia

Continued. --Old B-Runner