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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02233.53 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Note Date: 23 August 1864 Pagination: 1 p. : address ; 18 x 12 cm. Order a Copy

A list of fourteen prisoners to be sent to Goldsboro, with their ranks and names listed. One is listed as a "Yankee deserter."

George Wortham was a Confederate officer, who served as a Captain in the Twelfth North Carolina Infantry and later Colonel in the Fiftieth North Carolina Infantry.

Wortham, George, ca. 1823-1883

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