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Liggon’s Tobacco Warehouse Prison (Richmond, Va.)

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James Thomas Watt Hairston Civil War prison ledger

 Collection — Flat_box 1: [Barcode: X006178827]
Identifier: MSS 16919
Content Description This collection contains the ledger from Liggon's Prison, the first Confederate prison for Union prisoners of war, kept by the prison's commander, Lieutenant James Thomas Watt Hairston. Although the ledger contains 272 pages of text, the pages are stamped 1–288 due to skipped numbers. The book includes a 257-page roster of 3,159 Union POWs confined from September 1861 to March 1862. Each entry gives the prisoner's name, rank, company, and regiment, and their ultimate disposition,...
Dates: September 1861 - March 1862