Separate Lives, Shared Misery: A Look at Two of the “Immortal Six Hundred” Part I
Had it not been for the Civil War, Barney Cannoy and Junius Hempstead would have continued living in separate worlds, but a Union general’s obsession brought them together in one of the war’s most infamous imprisonments. Part I: Soldiers, 1860-1864 Autumn 1860 Among the students entering the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in August, 1860, was a 17-year-old Iowan, Junius Lackland Hempstead. Blessed with artistic abilities, the young […]