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PA Civil War > Newspapers > Miner's Journal of Schuylkill County

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Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania



Miner's Journal - February 4, 1865




Victims of Rebel Cruelty


Mike Crintin Co. C 48th Regiment died in prison at Salisbury N.C. November 29 1864. P. Heneran Co. H same regiment died in the same prison on the 25th of November. These men with hundreds of others were starved to death by the rebels.


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