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- GLC#
- GLC02233.16-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- December 27, 1862
- Author/Creator
- Saunders, J. C. Jr., fl. 1862
- Title
- to George Wortham
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 14.5 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Written from "Gill's Signal Station." Saunders writes as the Sergeant in command of the Station: "I send…a man who came to my station today. He says he is from Philadelphia and just out of "Castle Thunder" Richmond. I do not think he is altogether right, as contradicted himself several times in his statements." Castle Thunder in Richmond was a tobacco warehouse converted into a prison during the Civil War. Prisoners, many of whom were under sentence of death, were primarily civilians, they included violent criminals, Union sympathizers, and spies, among them Dr. Mary E. Walker.
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