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Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories 146 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 41 5 Browse Search
William Swinton, Campaigns of the Army of the Potomac 40 2 Browse Search
John Beatty, The Citizen-Soldier; or, Memoirs of a Volunteer 37 13 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 27 9 Browse Search
Capt. Calvin D. Cowles , 23d U. S. Infantry, Major George B. Davis , U. S. Army, Leslie J. Perry, Joseph W. Kirkley, The Official Military Atlas of the Civil War 26 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 2. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 24 0 Browse Search
A. J. Bennett, private , First Massachusetts Light Battery, The story of the First Massachusetts Light Battery , attached to the Sixth Army Corps : glance at events in the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah, from the summer of 1861 to the autumn of 1864. 23 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1861., [Electronic resource] 16 2 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 16 0 Browse Search
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that he would be carried aboard a little Confederate guard schooner or sloop that was standing immediately for the shore but he was not discovered, and of course, fell into the hands of the foe. After our troops had left the Island, he was approached by an officer on horseback, to whom he introduced himself as "Lieutenant Sayre, of the Confederate States marines. The officer replied: "I am Lieutenant Langdon, of the army — you shall be immediately cared for." He was next visited by some of Wilson's boys, who promised him good treatment, and claiming him as their prisoner. He was shortly after taken to the hospital, where he was treated with the utmost kindness by the chief surgeon, the officers of the army, as well as by regulars and Zouave privates. Colonel Brown also visited and conversed with him in the most amiable manner. Lieutenant Sayre will divulge nothing that compromises his honor. All our prisoners, while on the Island, were treated in a similar manner; and it was no d