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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 […]