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John M. House Civil War Letters

Date Range: 1865
4 items

Scope and Content:
Photostats of letters by John M. House written from U.S. Military Prison, Johnsons Island, February 24, 1865, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel C. House Esq., Knoxville, Tennessee.
Also in Special Collections are letters by Samuel House to his parents. John and Samuel House were brothers and were both in U.S. Military prisons at the same time at different locations: John at Johnsons Island and Samuel at Castle William, Governors Island, New York Harbor.
John House's letter mentions his brother Sam along with other members of the family, but he wrote chiefly about an exchange of prisoners which was then taking place at Johnsons Island.

Citation: John M. House Civil War Letters, Special Collections, Robert Manning Strozier Library, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
Source: Gift of Florida Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Fenton Davis Avant, Historian, Tallahassee, Florida.
Manuscript Number: MSS 0:141
Location: Box 149
 



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