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Preserving Our Heritage for Future Generations
UNION SOLDIERS
HELD CAPTIVE IN THE BLACKSHEAR PRISON
When these Union soldiers arrived in Georgia they were most likely imprisoned first at Andersonville. As General Sherman's troops advanced through the heart of Georgia the prisoners were then transferred by rail to the prison in Millen, then to Blackshear on the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad, by way of Savannah. Many were later transported from Blackshear to the prisons in Charleston & Florence, South Carolina. Others traveled by railroad to the prison camp in Thomasville, then to Albany, and finally being marched back to the gates of Andersonville.
Union Soldiers from the following regiments were held captive here in Blackshear:
ILLINOIS
William B. Smith, 14th Illinois Infantry Regiment, Company K
John McElroy, 16th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, Company L
Sergeant Walter Hartsough, 16th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, Company K
INDIANA
P.H. Cherry, ?, Indiana Regiment
Lessel Long, 13th Indiana Infantry Regiment, Company F
MAINE
E.W. Clark, (?) Maine Regiment
MICHIGAN
Quartermaster Sergeant John L. Ransom, 9th Michigan Cavalry Regiment
David Buck, 6th Michigan Cavalry Regiment
Eli S. Buck, 6th Michigan Cavalry Regiment
NEW YORK
Henry A. Harmon, 12th New York Cavalry Regiment
John Worrell Northrop, 76th New York Infantry Regiment
Regimental Surgeon J.A. Mowris,117th New York Infantry Regiment
OHIO
Ralph O. Bates, 9th Ohio Cavalry Regiment, Company H
PENNSYLVANIA
John W. Urban, 1st Pennsylvania Infantry Reserves, Company D
VERMONT
Francis J. Hosmer, 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment
Corporal H. I. Gorham, 4th Vermont Infantry Regiment
UNKNOWN REGIMENTS AT THIS TIME:
Sergeant Oats, ? Regiment
Thadeus L. Waters, ? Regiment
William H. Lightcap, ? Regiment
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