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From: "Ann Wideman" <>
Subject: RE: [MOJEFFER] Camp Jackson
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:43:52 -0500
In-Reply-To: <3F2946DA.5040903@tds.net>


Thanks to everyone that has helped with this. I really appreciate all of
you helping me out.
Ann

-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd & Peggy [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:42 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [MOJEFFER] Camp Jackson


For the Alton, Il. site go to:
www.altonweb.com/history/civilwar/confed/
Just follow instructions.
Lloyd C.


Barb Lynn wrote:

>I found an excellent book in the Poplar Bluff Public Library, Poplar Bluff,
MO.....sure there are copies elsewhere in Missouri Libraries.
>Title: Missouri Prisoners of War from Gratiot Street Prison & Myrtle Street
Prison, St. Louis, Mo.
>And Alton Prison, Alton, Illinois
>Including Citizens, Confederates, Bushwhackers and Guerrillas
>By Joanne Chiles Eakin
>1995
>
>It is a fairly large book and names listed alphabetically with the
following information about them: Name, Rank, Regiment, Captured ,Date,
Prison, Remarks (Remarks show what happened after being sent to one of these
prisons, such as discharged, transferred to another prison, etc.) I found
several of my Hensley men listed in this book.
>Barb
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Diehl, Barbi
> To:
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 8:51 AM
> Subject: [MOJEFFER] Camp Jackson
>
>
> Hi Ann, I saw your post. There was a Camp Jackson in what is now St.
Louis
> City, on the campus of St. Louis University. It had one of the earliest
> Civil War skirmishes with 40 dead, but I didn't know it was a POW camp
too.
> Camp Jackson would have been 15-20 miles from the Jefferson County line.
>
> The Missouri Historical Society has a huge collection on Civil War and I
> know they researched the Camp Jackson Massacre. The Northwest Branch of
the
> Jeffeson County Library (in High Ridge) has a copy of the Index and
> description for the MHS Civil War Manuscript Collection.
>
> If you like, I'll ask them if they know about it being a POW camp or any
> prisoner names, or I can get you the Archivist's e-mail.
>
> Barb Diehl
> President, Jefferson Co. Gen Soc
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ann Wideman [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 9:50 PM
> To:
> Subject: [MOJEFFER] Civil War Prisoner Camp
>
>
> I have found that an ancestor supposedly died in Camp Jackson. He was
taken
> prisoner during the Civil War and supposedly had been sent to
Andersonville
> Prison camp, but then his military papers say he died in Camp Jackson. I
> have done searches for Camp Jackson, but cannot find anything on it.
Does
> anyone know any website, book, etc that can tell me about the Camp and
who
> was in it, or does anyone know where it was?
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> Ann
>
>
>
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