Day 2: Civil War & Militaria

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Lot 515

[POW] 8 April 1865 Danville Prison Final Order

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Autograph document signed by Asst. Adjutant General Samuel T. Bayly. Head Quarters Comg. Genl. Prisons, Danville, Virginia, 8 April 1865. 1 page, 4to. Docketed to verso, with faded War Records stamp.

An order sent by Assistant Adjutant General Samuel T. Bayly commanding "preparation for the reception of twelve hundred Federal Prisoners at this place. You will have the buildings now under your charge properly cleaned and ventilated and you will notify the Commissary that you will require rations for this number of prisoners."

Sent just the day before Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, making this the final order for the Confederate prison at Danville. Between 1863 and the end of the war, Danville held up to 7,000 Union prisoners of war in converted prison buildings, including a former tobacco factory

[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs] [Prisoner of War, POW, Andersonville, Libby Prison]

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Day 2: Civil War & Militaria

[POW] 8 April 1865 Danville Prison Final Order

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