Raynor HCA 2014-01
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A good Union soldier’s former POW letter written by Albert Denning who enlisted 8/22/1862, into Company H, PA 114th Infantry, 4pp., College Green Barracks, October 5, 1863. In part, “I went into that fight (ie: Gettysburg) confident that I should come out safe and I tell you what, I fought hard but the Johnny’s caught me and 10 of my company and Lieut.Dunkle. I had a pretty hard time of it so the next time I am marked missing you may set me down as killed or badly wounded as that is the only way they will get me again. ... We had some pretty hard times on our march to Richmond. We march from Gettysburg down the Shenandoah Valley to Staunton and then took the cars for Richmond. We were 21 days getting to Richmond as far down the valley as Winchester. The people are all Union at Hagerstown and Williamsport.... But when we got to Martinsburg, we had a regular riot. The people threw pies, cakes, meat etc. into the ranks. The guards used their muskets on us to keep us from it. I knocked a Secesh for trying to keep a girl from giving me a pie and I laid him flat but I got hit myself on the head with the butt of a pistol by a Reb Captain. The people waved the stars and stripes and huzzaed for the Union and dared the Rebels to fire on them. ... We got to Richmond were in a part of the Libby Prison rented by the firm of Palmer and Allison whose goods were confiscated the next day, sent to Belle Isle. We were on the Island 9 weeks on the half of a loaf of bread a day ...” Renamed the College Green Barracks, the campus grounds were used at first as a parole camp, a place where exchanged Union prisoners were brought to get medical attention, fresh clothing, food, and the combat pay due to them.
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