Autographs, ca.1863-1865.

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Autographs, ca.1863-1865.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122545786

Autograph album containing autographs of, and poems by, Confederate prisoners of war on Johnson's Island, Lake Erie. Includes several poems by Maj. George McKnight of New Orleans (Army of Miss.) writing under the pen-name "Asa Hartz"; Maj. Gen. Isaac R. Trimble of Baltimore (Army of Northern Va.); and Lt. H. C. Wright of New Orleans (30th La. Regt., Army of Miss.).

1 v. (48 leaves).

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6757972

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Hartz, Asa.

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Cole, S. H.,

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McKnight (afterwards associate editor of the New Orleans Picayune) published prison poems in the Sandusky (Ohio) Register, from which some were reprinted by newspapers in New York. Two of his poems in the album are reprinted in Virginia Hist. Soc. Collections, N.S. 6 (1887), 327f, 338. From the description of Autographs, ca.1863-1865. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 122545786 ...

Trimble, Isaac R., Major-General.

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Wright, H. C., Lieut.

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McKnight, George, Major, 1833-

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