9th WV Infantry in Salisbury Prison

“The Salisbury Prison – A Case Study of Confederate Military Prisons 1861-1865”
“List of Union Prisoners sent from Salisbury Prison in May 1862.”

 “There was an exchange of approximately 1500 POWs in late May 1862 before the Dix-Hill Cartel was established on 22 July 1862.  Two hundred were shipped from the Salisbury Prison each day beginning on May 21 and continuing until May 28, except May 26, when none left.  The Bogue Island prisoners were sent out on the 28th and are separately alphabetized.

Each POW took the following oath before leaving Salisbury:

“The undersigned, prisoners of War to the Confederate States, solemnly swear that if released, they will not take up arms during the existing war against the Confederate States unless regularly exchanged and that they will not communicate in any manner whatever, anything that might injure the cause of the Confederate States, which may have come to their knowledge since capture.”

These prisoners left the port of Newbern, N.C., and arrived in New York on June 9.  On 10 June 1862, the Tribune [The NY Tribune, a newspaper] reported that the steamer “Guide” had brought “all the prisoners what were left at Salisbury, except the officers.”

Following is a list of the men of the 9th WV Infantry who were released from the Salisbury Prison as listed in the above-referenced book.  Many of these men were from Ohio, some were from Lawrence County, Ohio,  and a few were from Aid Township, including my great-grandfather, Henry Crawford.

Please be advised that there probably are some misspellings in the list, but I have copied them exactly as they were written.

•  Allen, William
• Bias, Berry
• Bias, R.S.
• Clark, Samuel
• Crawford, Henry
• Darling, I.C.
• Eachus, Henry
• Eggers, Joseph
• Fillinger, Sam
• Fitzer, Joseph
• Gibson, William L.
• Higgins, J.H.
• Hillman, S. H.
• Holland, J. H.
• Howard, Wesley
• Huggins, I.
• Jenkins, Thomas
• Johnson, G. W.
• Johnson, J. W.
• Johnston, D. S.
• McVickers, Henry
• Markin, C. W.
• Markin, E. W.
• Massy, G. P.
• Massy, I.
• Neal, R. E.
• Parler, Lewis
• Payne, Uriah
• Payne, Wm
• Payton, Charles
• Pelerman, R.
• Petit, Sam
• Plyben, Lewis
• Pollack, Granville
• Powell, W. E.
• Reif, C. W.
• Ross, Thomas
• Shoemate, Benjamin
• Shoemate, Geo. Wash.
• Stevens, N.
• Swanagan, Lafayette
• Teel, J. W.
• Teel, Wm. J.
• Thomas, Sanford
• Vilito, Andrew
• Ward, D.
• Waugh, H.
• Wilson, S.
• Wood, J. C.
• Woolum, D.

Revised and enlarged by Louis Brown.
Ref 973.772 Br.
Index L-1 . Pages 212-220.

 All 50 of the above names were copied directly from the book (referenced above) by William Adna Crawford.