It is said that in the yankee prison camps that the southern soldiers were starving...at one camp, maybe Elmira, NY...the townsfolk would bring their sunday picnic lunches out on a hillside overlooking the camp, and would toss chicken bones and apple cores across rhe fence and laugh to see the prisoners scrambling to get them to eat....also, some of the northern guards were black, and they showed no mercy to the Rebels...Paul keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul
Hi all, A first cousin, twice removed, of mine, Elizabeth Ann Southern Shelor of Wythe County, whose mother was Nancy Hurst Southern, married a man variously known as Indiandozier Bogenshield Shelor or John B. Shelor. Known as Dozier, in the 50th VA, he was captured during the CW, sent first to Point Lookout, then on to the Elmira prison camp. He died there in 1865. His widow in her pension application years later still wasn't happy, claiming he was starved, as I remember. She is buried in the Meadows of Dan Baptist Church Cemetery. Dozier is buried in the Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira. A cemetery official was kind enough to send me a photo of his gravestone a few years ago. My great granduncle Samuel Vincent Wheeler, along with most of the 51st VA, was captured and sent to Fort Delaware near the end of the War. I've heard they were sent first to Point Lookout. (My great grandfather William Raleigh Wheeler managed not to get captured.) The fact that my father lived for a while with his uncle Samuel, a CW vet, makes me feel old. Not as old as Ole Paul, of course. I've been to Point Lookout, but years ago. Also Fort Delaware, which is much more interesting to visit. Bill Hurst > It is said that in the yankee prison camps that the southern soldiers > were starving...at one camp, maybe Elmira, NY...the townsfolk would > bring their sunday picnic lunches out on a hillside overlooking the > camp, and would toss chicken bones and apple cores across rhe fence and > laugh to see the prisoners scrambling to get them to eat....also, some > of the northern guards were black, and they showed no mercy to the > Rebels...Paul > > keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul