Separate Lives, Shared Misery: A Look at Two of the “Immortal Six Hundred” Part III
Despite the hardships imposed upon them, only 44 of the Immortal Six Hundred died as a direct result of their maltreatment. In June of 1865, Barney Cannoy and Junius Hempstead were among the survivors beginning their post-war lives. Part III: Civilians Thousands of soldiers, both Union and Confederate, poured out of prisoner-of-war camps at the war’s end. For rebel soldiers, release meant vowing […]