Some captive rebels took a different trip

[CMWinkler]

Some captive rebels took a different trip
March 30, 2014 11:33 PM
By Len Barcousky / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Spending eight months in Western Penitentiary persuaded five rebel officers to take an oath of allegiance to the U.S. government 150 years ago this month.

They were among 116 captured Confederate officers who were being transferred from the jail in what was then Allegheny City, now the North Side, to a giant prisoner-of-war camp at the southern tip of Maryland.


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[ErnieMac]

The last sentence of the article mentions an L. R. Payton shot by a guard while trying to escape enroute to the prison camp in Maryland. I did a little checking to see if more information on Payton was available. I found a link to the RootsWeb Message Boards that gives more detail. These records show the spelling of his last name as Peyton and there seems to be some question as to whether he was an officer. The testimony before a board of officers indicates Peyton was shot in an altercation with a guard in the Point Lookout Camp on March 20, 1864..
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PEYTON/2008-02/1203300389

The board of officers ruled that the shooter, Sergeant Edwin Young of the 2nd New Hampshire was justified in his actions. That did not sit well with some generals and war department officials who called for a formal Court of Inquiry. The records are silent if the Court was ever called and Sergeant Young mustered out with his company later in the year.
http://ourwarmikepride.blogspot.com/2013/07/stand-your-ground-circa-1864.html

 

[John Davison]

Some captive rebels took a different trip
March 30, 2014 11:33 PM
By Len Barcousky / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Spending eight months in Western Penitentiary persuaded five rebel officers to take an oath of allegiance to the U.S. government 150 years ago this month.

They were among 116 captured Confederate officers who were being transferred from the jail in what was then Allegheny City, now the North Side, to a giant prisoner-of-war camp at the southern tip of Maryland.
That POW camp in Maryland was Point Lookout. My G Grandfather and his two Brothers were incarcerated there. One brother died from typhoid and is buried with some 2,000 other Confederates in a mass grave near the camp. His name, Martin Loftin, is engraved on the monument to the Confederate dead

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