Oroon Alston Hanner album, 1863-1866 [manuscript].

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Oroon Alston Hanner album, 1863-1866 [manuscript].

Autograph album kept by Lt. Oroon Alston Hanner of the 26th North Carolina Regiment, Company E, while incarcerated at the Federal Prison on Johnson Island, Ohio, September 1863 to March 1865. The album contains the signatures, addresses, and military units of approximately 155 Confederate soldiers. In addition to the autographs are several poems by various inmates describing prison life. Also present are Hanner's commission in the North Carolina militia (1866) and a photograph of Hanner in Confederate uniform.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

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Hanner, Oroon Alston, 1842-1922.

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Johnson Island Prison

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Johnson Island, located in Sandusky, Ohio, operated as a federal prisoner of war depot, housing Confederate officers and other enlisted men captured in battle, from April 1862 to September 1865. From the guide to the Johnson Island Prison Autograph Albums, ., 1861-1865, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Union army prison in Ohio. From the description of Diagram, 1862. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat...