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	Enlisted at White's Bridge, South Carolina, July 19, 1861 at age 20. Captured July 5, 1864 'near Chattahoochee River.' Arrived PoW Camp Morton, Indiana, July 14, 1864-February 26, 1865. POW # 7546. Transferred for exchange to City Point, Virginia, February 26, 1865, from camp hospital. He was suffering from malnutrition and possibly scurvy as well. Prisoners regularly ate rats or the garbage from the Union guards as the Federal government cut rations in retaliation for treatment of US prisoners in Confederate hands. 50 prisoners died on average every month. Transported by rail in unheated boxcar with 500 other sick POW's from hospital, during trip 5 more prisoners died.On arrival at Confederate lines at Petersburg, the liberated prisoners began to hobble towards their lines through no-man's-land, only to be stopped by the Rebel soldiers holding the sector-artillery shells had been planted as landmines and they had to be guided through a zigzag path through the minefield to safety. In Chimboarazo Hospital, Richmond, Va, when city fell to US troops April 3, 1865. Takes oath of allegiance and finally returns home to Conway, SC June 1865. Major battles present at- Mumfordsville, Ky. Murfreesboro, Tenn. Chickamauga, Ga. Chattanooga, Tenn. Resaca, Ga. Dallas/New Hope Church, Ga. Kenesaw Mountain, Ga.
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