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Prisoners of War - Camp Ford, TX
Listed below are 21 men of the
Chicago Mercantile Battery that were captured at Mansfield on April 8,
1864. They were marched to Tyler, TX and incarcerated at Camp Ford until May
15, 1865, when their Rebel guards abandoned the prison as the Confederacy's Tran-Mississippi disintegrated. White and his fellow Battery Boys departed two days later for Shreveport. At the mouth of the Red River they were all exchanged except for Walter H. Felter who died in prison on July 13, 1864.
- Bugler John W. Arnold
- Pvt. Joseph Arnold (on detachment from 130th Illinois Infantry)
- Pvt. Samuel E. Ball
- Corp. Henry C. Brackett
- Sgt. George E. Bryant
- Pvt. Amos L. Burdick
- 1st Lt. Pinckney S. Cone
- Sgt. Joseph L. Day
- Walter H. Felter
- Pvt. Thomas Forbes (on detachment from 77th Illinois Infantry)
- Pvt. Peleg Green
- Pvt. Hiland W. Hall
- Corp. Samuel Hammett
- Pvt. Randolph Luckey (on detachment from 97th Illinois Infantry)
- Pvt. Lewis Mann
- Pvt. Wm. D. McCoy (on detachment from 77th Illinois Infantry)
- Pvt. Wm. Munn
- Pvt. Sanford L. Parker
- Pvt. Norman D. Richards (on detachment from 77th Illinois Infantry)
- Pvt. A.W. Rumsey
- Capt. Patrick H. White
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