Category Archives: Prisoners of War

The “ballad” of Ephraim Shelby Dodd

Posted on October 31, 2013 by Dick Stanley

Private Dodd was one of Terry’s Texas Rangers who’d been captured by the federals and was housed in Knoxville’s Castle Fox jail during the Union occupation. A curious conjunction of events, ranging from Gen. Longstreet’s hanging of two alleged Union … Continue reading →

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Reprise: Camp Chase, the fiddle tune

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Dick Stanley

Camp Chase was a Union prisoner-of-war camp in Ohio which took several of the captured Rebels from the Battle of Fort Sanders, including the 13th Mississippi’s Lieutenant Colonel Alfred George Washington O’Brien. The POW camp already had, by tradition anyhow, a … Continue reading →

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Fort Delaware

Posted on July 29, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Captain James Lile Lemon of the Eighteenth Georgia was one of the Knoxville POWs sent to Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch Island in the Delaware River southwest of Wilmington. At least 2,400 Confederate prisoners died there and are buried in … Continue reading →

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The Immortal Six Hundred

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Many of the attackers, once they were in the deep ditch around the northwest bastion and unable to get out, surrendered. And thereby hangs many a tale illustrating the absolute hatred on both sides of the war. One of the … Continue reading →

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