Penfield, James Allen, ?-1910 [Union Prisoner of War autograph album]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02262 Author/Creator: Penfield, James Allen, ?-1910 Place Written: Columbia, South Carolina Type: Manuscript signed Date: 1864 - 1 February 1865 Pagination: 182 p. ; 20 x 13 cm. Order a Copy
Contains over 900 prisoner of war officer signatures and their ranks. Ornate hand drawn title page, "Autographs of U. S. Officers, Prisoners of War confined at Richmond, Virginia, Macon, Georgia - Savannah Georgia - Charleston, South Carolina - Columbia, South Carolina - Charlotte, North Carolina J.A. Penfield, Major 5th New York Cavalry." Title page signed "Yours Truly," by Lieutenant J. Arthur Richardson but his company or regiment is cut off the bottom of the page. Some names have been annotated in graphite in a later hand. Also contains a similar page of pen art entitled "Song Sherman's March to the Sea," composed by S.H.M. [Samuel Hawkins Marshall] Byers, Adjutant 5th Iowa Infantry, Prisoner of War, Columbia, South Carolina. The song is Asylum Camp, Columbia, South Carolina, Feb. 1, 1865. Rebound in late 19th century quarter leather, with (later) period paper interleaved and calligraphic title page inserted. Records show Penfield as a wounded POW at Hagerstown, Maryland on 6 July 1863, and confined at Camp Asylum, Columbia, South Carolina 12 December 1864.
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