Company I, 55th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Confederate States Army (CSA)
Chicago's Camp Douglas, one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the Civil War, was a permanent POW camp from January 1863 to the end of the war in May 1865.∼James served in the 55th GA Volunteers, Co. I, Capt. Hardemon, commanding; was captured at 2nd Battle of Cumberland Gap, Sept. 10, 1863; d. as POW in Camp Douglas, Chicago, IL, April 1864 of smallpox. He and his brother, William (who also died of smallpox six weeks after James) , are buried in a mass grave under the Cenotaph marking the grave site. A bronze plaque shows his name and his brother's name. (Additional information on this unit: Perry was "mustered in" 7 May 1862 as Private (Pvt.), Co. I (Gwinnett Co.), 55th Regt., Georgia (Volunteers), Inf., Army of Tennessee, Confederate States Army (CSA). More than 540 men in the 55th GA were captured at the second Battle of Cumberland Gap. )
Chicago's Camp Douglas, one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the Civil War, was a permanent POW camp from January 1863 to the end of the war in May 1865.∼James served in the 55th GA Volunteers, Co. I, Capt. Hardemon, commanding; was captured at 2nd Battle of Cumberland Gap, Sept. 10, 1863; d. as POW in Camp Douglas, Chicago, IL, April 1864 of smallpox. He and his brother, William (who also died of smallpox six weeks after James) , are buried in a mass grave under the Cenotaph marking the grave site. A bronze plaque shows his name and his brother's name. (Additional information on this unit: Perry was "mustered in" 7 May 1862 as Private (Pvt.), Co. I (Gwinnett Co.), 55th Regt., Georgia (Volunteers), Inf., Army of Tennessee, Confederate States Army (CSA). More than 540 men in the 55th GA were captured at the second Battle of Cumberland Gap. )
Company I, 55th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, Confederate States Army (CSA)
Chicago's Camp Douglas, one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the Civil War, was a permanent POW camp from January 1863 to the end of the war in May 1865.∼James served in the 55th GA Volunteers, Co. I, Capt. Hardemon, commanding; was captured at 2nd Battle of Cumberland Gap, Sept. 10, 1863; d. as POW in Camp Douglas, Chicago, IL, April 1864 of smallpox. He and his brother, William (who also died of smallpox six weeks after James) , are buried in a mass grave under the Cenotaph marking the grave site. A bronze plaque shows his name and his brother's name. (Additional information on this unit: Perry was "mustered in" 7 May 1862 as Private (Pvt.), Co. I (Gwinnett Co.), 55th Regt., Georgia (Volunteers), Inf., Army of Tennessee, Confederate States Army (CSA). More than 540 men in the 55th GA were captured at the second Battle of Cumberland Gap. )
Chicago's Camp Douglas, one of the largest Union Army prisoner-of-war camps for Confederate soldiers taken prisoner during the Civil War, was a permanent POW camp from January 1863 to the end of the war in May 1865.∼James served in the 55th GA Volunteers, Co. I, Capt. Hardemon, commanding; was captured at 2nd Battle of Cumberland Gap, Sept. 10, 1863; d. as POW in Camp Douglas, Chicago, IL, April 1864 of smallpox. He and his brother, William (who also died of smallpox six weeks after James) , are buried in a mass grave under the Cenotaph marking the grave site. A bronze plaque shows his name and his brother's name. (Additional information on this unit: Perry was "mustered in" 7 May 1862 as Private (Pvt.), Co. I (Gwinnett Co.), 55th Regt., Georgia (Volunteers), Inf., Army of Tennessee, Confederate States Army (CSA). More than 540 men in the 55th GA were captured at the second Battle of Cumberland Gap. )
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