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From: Judith Bookwalter <>
Subject: [PA-Perry] The Prisoners at Richmond-Dec. 3, 1861
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 12:48:01 -0800 (PST)
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>From "The Philadelphia Inquirer", Philadelphia,
Tuesday, December 3, 1861.

Boston, Dec. 2d.--The following is an extract from
a letter from Captain BOWMAN, of the Fifteenth
Massachusetts Regiment, and now a prisoner of war,
under date of Richmond, Nov. 27th:--
We are all, seven of us, confined in one cell,
size eleven by seventeen feet. Our mess is made up
of Colonels COGGSWELL and WOOD, of New York, Col. LEE
and Major REVERE, of the Massachusetts Twentieth,
Captain KEFFER, of Philadelphia, and Capt. ROCKWOOD
and
Myself, of the Fifteenth Massachusetts Regiment. We
were transferred from the tobacco warehouse, where
we had been confined since the battle of Leesburg, a
fortnight ago. Standing, as we do, for those
privateers in New York, we are treated the same as
prisoners charged with crime. What will be the result
of all this I do not know. I trust that all will be
well. To live or to die, we are content, as our
country bids.

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Judy Warner Bookwalter (Conner Crull Garland Garlin George Harclerode Kough/Koch Leighty Morrison Riggleman Smith Warner Zimmerman)
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ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/perry/newspapers/1929jun14.txt
ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/perry/newspapers/1908aug6.txt

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