Immortal Six Hundred

[Will Posey]

Six hundred Confederate officers who were Union POWs and in 1864 were placed in a pen in front of the Union batteries on Morris Island during the Union siege of Charleston as an effort to deter the Confederates in Charleston from firing back. The effort failed.

[gary]

At the Virginia State Library in Richmond (was there last week), I found a book that gave the biography of the Immortal Six Hundred. It was published by White Mane Press in Shippensburg, PA. Check it out.

[Will Posey]

Mauriel Joslyn has written two books on the Immortal 600:
The Biographical Roster of the Immortal 600 ISBN 0-942597-98-2 and
Immortal Captives ISBN 0-942597-96-6
both published by White Mane Publishing Co. of Shippensburg PA

There are other sources of information on the 600, such as
The Immortal Six Hundred, written by Maj. Ogden Murray, one of the 600,
and first published in 1905, reprinted in 1986 by Eagle Press, Little Rock AR. Another is Dunkle's 1869 List of The Immortal Six Hundred Prisoners of War, which appears in a book titled Virginia Diaspora, published in 1992 by Heritage Books ISBN 1-55613-648-X.

There are others unpublished.

Will