Amos E. Stearns memoir 1864-1865 Stearns, Amos

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Amos E. Stearns memoir 1864-1865 Stearns, Amos

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Amos Stearns, who enlisted in the 25th Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War, was held as a prisoner of war by the Confederates from May 1864 to March 1865. His account of his Civil War service and imprisonment, entitled , offers insight into his experiences and the ways in which the experiences of war were recrafted in the minds of veterans as the years passed. Life in Rebel Prisons

82 pages

eng,

William L. Clements Library

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William L. Clements Library

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