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From: Sam Sloan <>
Subject: Re: [IAVANBUR] Thomas Wright, prisoner of war home-1865
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:16:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: <01e601c37fc2$6711ab20$bd0e540c@4ladz>


At 03:49 PM 9/20/2003 -0500, Cathy Joynt Labath wrote:
>Burlington Hawkeye
>Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
>May 20, 1865
>
>
> Thomas Wright, son of Geo. G. Wright, of the Supreme Bench, was in the
>Andersonville stockade, a prisoner of war from the 4th day of December last
>until a few weeks since when he was released and is now at his home in
>Keosauqua.
>
>Cathy Joynt Labath
>Iowa Old Press
>http://www.IowaOldPress.com/
>Iowa History Project
>http://iagenweb.org/history/

Was there any follow-up on this? Thousands of prisoners died in
Andersonville stockade. It would be interesting to know if he said anything
about that.

Sam Sloan

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