Papers, 1862-1864.

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Papers, 1862-1864.

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Civil War diary (94 p.) records the experiences of Lt. Col. Frank T. Bennett as a prisoner of war in Confederate prisons in Charleston and Columbia, S.C., from March 18 to October 10, 1862. There is also an entry about his capture during the Battle of Drewry's Bluff, 1864, and imprisonment in Libby Prison, Richmond, during May 16-October 8 1864. Bennett speaks well of Southerners in general despite the hardships of prison life, and records his views of Northern military and political tactics. The volume begins with a series of poems and there are a few poems interspersed in the diary entries. A loose item consists of a brief chronoloy of the war and the military service of Frank and of Horace C. Bennett. Horace (d. 1862) may have been Frank's brother.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Bennett, Frank T., 1834-1871

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Frank T. Bennett, the son of Daniel R. Bennett and Ann Taylor, was born in 1834. In 1861 he enlisted in the 55th Pennsylvania Volunteers and was given a commission as a lieutenant colonel. In March 1862 Bennett was taken prisoner on Tybee Island, off the coast of Georgia. He was subsequently imprisoned in jails in Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina, and was paroled in October 1862. Bennett was captured again later in the war and held in Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia. From t...

United States. Army

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

United States. Army. Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, 55th (1861-1865)

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Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment organized at Harrisburg, by Colonel Richard White in the summer and autumn of 1861 with men from the counties of Bedford, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Dauphin, Indiana, and Schuykill. Saw service throughout the war. Mustered out of service on the 30th of August, 1865. From the description of Records of the 55th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteersand its Colonel, Richard White, 1855-1909 (bulk 1861-1865). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 48995412 ...

Bennett, Horace C., d. 1862.

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