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Title	George Uhlich Civil War Letters to Family
Subject	Military Ohio Civil War Prisoners of war Prisoners and prisons Cahaba Prison Camp Sultana 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.)
Place	Mansfield (Ohio) Richland County (Ohio) Clarksville (Tennessee) Louisberg (Kentucky)
Description	George Uhlich was as soldier from Mansfield, Ohio who served in the 102nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.). In his letters, Uhlich often wrote about Mansfield and fellow soldiers from the Mansfield area. He described life in the South, the treatment of slaves, and the reaction to the Union soldiers. Uhlich's regiment spent some time in Kentucky before moving to Clarksburg, Tennessee, where they spent almost ten months. On September 24, 1864, George Uhlich was taken prisoner near Athens, Alabama. Uhlich was sent to Cahaba Prison Camp, where he spent the next six months. Although Captain H.A.M. Henderson, the commander of Cahaba Prison Camp and a Methodist minister, was known as a humane and fair officer, conditions in the camp were harsh. The camp's water supply was polluted, supplies were so low the men were forced to live on a cup of cornmeal a day, and disease was rampant. Uhlich survived six months at Cahaba before he learned that he would be part of a prisoner exchange, arranged in April 1865. The steamship Sultana set out for Union territory on April 27, 1865. On the voyage home, Uhlich and more than 1700 of the 2000 prisoners were killed in an explosion that destroyed the ship. The five letters included here, all written on folded pages measuring 10" x 8" (26 x 20 cm) are part of a collection of 65 letters written by Uhlich. The library purchased this collection from the Ohio Bookhunter in 1980.
Creator	Uhlich, George
Date of Original	1862 - 1864
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) r921 U45 Sherman Room
Submitting Institution	Mansfield-Richland County Public Library
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om94_573019_001
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Full Text	Clarksville, Tenn May 17 th[superscript] 1863 Dear Father: I received yours today, and did not find much news. You spoke of the capture of Richmond which has proved to be fales. I think there will have to be some hard fighting before we get Richmond I suppose you have heard that General Stonewall Jack son is dead and that is a grand loss to the Rebel army he died from the effects of the wound in his arm the rebels in this community feel like if they had the sick headache

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