In “Historic Records of the Fifth New York Cavalry,” by Rev. Louis N. Boudrye, Chaplain of the Regiment, I find the following:
“March 9th.—About 3 o’clock A.M. Mosby and his gang, led by Sergeant James F. Ames, formerly of Company L, of this regiment, having safely passed the pickets, entered Fairfax Court House. Without scarcely firing a shot they captured 50 fine horses and about 30 prisoners, including Brigadier-General Stoughton and Captain Barker of the Fifth New York Cavalry. The brigade was sent in pursuit of the dashing party, each regiment taking different routes, but they returned at night unsuccessful, the Fifth New York having gone to Herndon Station. Such a raid, five or six miles within our lines, resulting in such a heavy loss to us, reflects very uncreditably upon some of our military leaders, while it shows how wily a foe we have to contend with.”
When Company F, Mosby’s Battalion, was organized, James F. Ames, usually spoken of as “Big Yankee,” was chosen as second lieutenant. He was killed October 9th, 1864, at Mrs. Shacklett’s gate on the road to Piedmont (now called Delaplane) by a Federal scout who came out with one of the parties from Rectortown that morning, and while this scout was rifling the corpse, he was killed by one of Mosby’s men, Lud. Lake.
INDEX
A
Adreon, George S., escape, [52].
Allsman, Andrew, [65], [66].
Ames, Lieut. James F., [156].
Andersonville (see Wirz).
Armand, William, [76], [77].
Ayre, George S., arrested, robbed and imprisoned, [44].
Hostage for Steers, [45].
B
Baker, Willis, [66].
Ballon, Sylvester, [143].
Baltimore, [12], [13].
Barnes, John H., [86], [88], [97], [102], [103], [104], [108], [113], [114], [118], [119].
Barrett, Boyd, [67], [73].
Bennett, ——, [119].
Tells mule story, [69].
Bixler, Lieut., at Parole Camp, [104].
Bixler, Morgan, [66].
Blockade runners, [38], [46], [47], [64], [75], [78], [79].
Bowles, Benjamin F., [104].
Boyd, Belle, Gus Williams tells of her imprisonment, [50].
Her remarkable career, [51].
Supt. Wood spoke of her, [52].
Brawner, Redmond F., imprisoned and family driven from home, [44].
Breckenridge, Major, [104].
Bribery, [37], [38], [52], [67].
Buell, Colonel, [85].
C
Camp Chase, prisoners tell of treatment there, [100], [101], [102].
Three little boys from, [67].
Camp Douglas, prisoners tell of cruel treatment and great mortality at, [100], [101], [104].
Verified by Official Records, [101].
Camp Parole, hardships at, [101].
Exchange of prisoners, [102].
Vermin, [105], [106].
Carr, John, sad experience, [60].
Dr. Green and his mules, [70].
Carroll Prison (Duff Green’s Row), [22], [75], [87].
Carter, H. Fitzhugh, [119].
Answers at roll-call, [81].
Also at “sick call,” [82], [83].
Chandler, ——, [119].
Charlie, our friendly contraband and our Ganymede, [53].
Children held as prisoners, [66], [67], [68], [87], [104].
City Point, Va., [95].
As it looked in spring of 1863, [96].
Clift, ——, [119].
Collision on railroad, [14].
Comastri, Marco, [61], [77], [119].
Commission to try State prisoners, [61], [69].
Congress and Cumberland, wrecks of, [91].
Cooke ——, [104].
D
Daily routine of prison life, [54].
Daniels, ——, [40], [41].
Darling, Captain, rumor of his escape, [52].
On flag-of-truce boat, [91].
Davis, ——, (blockade runner), [52], [119].
Davis, Hon. Jefferson, [122], [138], [139], [152].
Dead-lines, about, [131].
De la Baume, the Marquis, star witness against Wirz, [137].
Delano, Philemon, [119].
Delaplane (Piedmont), [117], [118].
Departure of prisoners, [84], [89].
Detectives and spies, [58].
Diary, in Old Capitol, [19].
At Camp Parole, [98].
Itinerary from Parole Camp to Upperville, [108].
Extracts from diary of Wirz, [147].
Doster, Colonel (provost-marshal), [32].
Duff Green’s Row—(see Carroll Prison).
Dula, Lowring, [119].
“Dutchy,” [29].
E
Early, General Jubal A., comments on Gen. Order No. 209, [125].
Efforts of Confederate authorities to relieve prisoners, [123].
To effect exchange, [124]-[6]-[7], [130].
Elk Licking Creek, [107].
Ennis, Mrs., the prisoners’ friend, [29].
Eorio, Peter, [61], [77], [78], [119].
Escapes from Old Capitol, Adreon and Captain Darling, [52].
Captain Wynne, [46].
Federal prisoners, [75].
Plans laid but defeated, [52].
Ewell, James, [79], [119].
Examination, provost-marshal, [20].
And search entering prison, [22].
By Colonel Buell, [85], [86].
By Colonel Wood, [72].
By Captain Parker, [39], [42].
Exchange of prisoners, Ould’s letter to Hitchcock, [123].
Letter to National Intelligencer, [124].
Report of Gen. Seymour, [126].
U. S. authorities did not want, [125].
Gen. Butler’s efforts frustrated, [126].
Southern authorities anxious for, [126].
Extracts from report Confederate Congress, [127]-[8]-[9], [130].
Execution by Gen. McNeil, [65], [66].
Of Wirz, [142], [143].
F
Fairfax Court House raid, [115].
Gen. Stoughton’s telegraph operator tells of his capture, [154], [155], [156].
Sergeant Ames (Big Yankee), [156].
Federal soldiers, prisoners for insubordination and deserters, [73].
Fifth New York Cavalry, what the chaplain said of Fairfax Court House raid, [156].
Fire, alarm in Old Capitol, [70], [71].
First Maryland Regiment, [14].
Fitzgerald, Edward, [119].
Flag-of-truce boat, steamer State of Maine, [90].
Flaherty, John, [63], [119].
Flaherty, Peter, [63], [119].
Fleggenheimer mourns the loss of his goods, [64].
Food, at Old Capitol, poor in quality and insufficient in quantity, [22], [26]-[7]-[8].
Providing our own rations, [27]-[8].
Rations at Camp Parole, [98]-[9], [103].
Ford, Miss Antonia, [87], [115].
Ford, Miss Belle, [115].
Ford, John, [119].
Fortress Monroe, [90], [91].
Fox, Lieut. Frank, at Parole Camp, [99], [102], [108], [110].
Lieut. Co. C, Mosby’s Men, [108].
Wounded and died, [108].
“Fresh fish,” [46].
Front Royal, [115], [116].
Fullerton, James, [30], [56], [57].
G
Gardner, —— (blockade runner), [52], [119].
General orders No. 209,
refusal to recognize paroles, [124].
Gen. Pope’s order licensing soldiers to plunder citizens, [45].
George, —— (blockade runner), [52], [119].
Goldsmith, John M., [60], [119].
Goose Creek, crossing under difficulties, [117], [118].
Gordonsville, [109].
Graves, Matt., [110], [111].
Green, —— (from Missouri), [119].
Guard house at Old Capitol, [59], [78], [79].
Gunnell House, Fairfax Court House, [155].
H
Hagan, ——, [119].
Hammett, George (blockade runner), [38], [52], [119].
Haskins, —— (from South Carolina), [67], [73].
Died of smallpox, [73].
Henry Burden, U. S. steamer, [97].
Hero, a young, [65].
Hertzog, ——, [119].
Higgins, Captain, [57].
Highland, ——, prison guard at Old Capitol, [87].
Very kind to prisoners, [87].
Hoffman, Mr., [115].
Holbrook, Thomas, an old schoolmate, [79].
A valuable addition to our mess, [79], [80].
To room No. 10, [86], [89], [119].
Hollenbaugh, William T., [119].
Hospital, [54].
Hostages, John B. Hunter, for Stiles, [32].
George S. Ayre, for Steers, [45].
Howe, Henry, my accuser, [40], [42].
Arrested in Richmond on charges, [40], [41].
How we passed the time, [47], [48].
Hoyle, George, [85], [89], [119].
Humston, Thomas, [66].
Hunter, John B., [32], [119].
No charge, but hostage for Stiles the guide, [60].
Hurst, Thomas, [31], [75], [119].
Hutson, Herbert, [66].
I
Imboden, Gen. John D., letter of, [134].
Not allowed to testify at trial of Wirz, [135].
Itinerary of journey from Parole Camp to Upperville, [108], [118].
J
James River, steaming up the, [94]-[5].
Jamestown, first settlement, [94].
Jenkins, ——, [119].
“John Morgan’s orderly,” [67.]
Johnson, James, robbed and imprisoned, [43], [119].
Johnson’s Island, prisoners tell of hardships and sufferings, [100]-[1].
Shooting prisoners, [101].
K
Keleher, John, [78], [85], [89], [119].
Kerfoot, James F., [44], [98], [119].
Kerney, Martin J., my old school-master, [79].
My schoolmates, [79].
Keys, J., [119].
King, Aaron J., [38], [119].
L
Lackey, ——, [119].
Ladies passing prison arrested and detained, [32], [38], [87].
Lair, Marion, [66].
Lake, Eleazer, [66].
Landstreet, Rev. Mr. (Confederate chaplain), [34].
Lee, Philip, [102], [108], [118], [119].
Lee, Thomas, gets his share of beans, [102], [103].
Mentioned, [108], [118], [119].
Letters all have to go through provost-marshal’s office, [30]-[1].
Ould to Hitchcock, [123].
To National Intelligencer, [124].
Gen. J. D. Imboden, [134].
To Wirz, from his wife, [144].
Wirz’s last to his wife and children, [145].
Rev. Father Boyle, [139], [140].
Lewis, Aaron, [79], [119].
“Lights out” (taps), [55].
We install our own lighting plant, [56].
Lindsay, ——, of Washington, leaves Parole Camp to join Co. K, Tenth Louisiana Regt., [105].
List of prisoners in Room 16, [119]-[121].
Littlepage, William T., [85], [89], [119].
Long, Reuben, [113].
Louisiana troops, [15].
Love, Henry, arrested, imprisoned, property taken or destroyed and no charge against him, [42], [78], [119].
Love, Llewellyn, [119].
Ludlow, Colonel, U. S. Commissioner of exchange, [97].
Luray, [114].
M
McNeil, Gen. John, his brutal execution of ten Confederate prisoners, [66].
McPheeters, John Y., [66].
MacWooster, takes us to Criglersville, [110].
Gives us good advice, [110].
Madison Court House, [110].
Manassas Gap railroad, along the old road on foot, [117].
Marchland, Judge, [119].
Marini, ——, witness in Wirz case, [137].
Martin, ——, [119].
Maryland, my native State, [12].
First Maryland Regiment, [14].
Marylanders in Richmond, [14].
Mess room in Old Capitol, [22], [26], [54].
Milani’s Gap in Blue Ridge, [111].
Mills, J., [102], [104].
Mills, William M., [102], [104].
Minor, Fairfax, [50], [119].
Won’t take chances where only one man is killed, [63].
Missouri State Militia, [66].
Mitchell, Captain, [75], [119].
Mitchell, Lieut. Hugh, [119].
Model Farm Barracks, [98], [108].
Montgomery, ——, [119].
Monument at Andersonville, [152].
Moore, ——, death of, [31].
Mosby, Col. John S., my first meeting with, [118].
Mount, Stephen R., [53], [119].
Mules at Manassas, [69].
Dr. Green and his mules, [70].
Mulford, Captain John E., [95], [97].
Mustered into Confederate service, [105].
N
Names of prisoners in room 16, [119].
Nelson, Lieut. Joseph H., [154].
New Jersey Regiment, Tenth, prison guard at Old Capitol, [35].
Newport News, [91].
New York Regiment, Third, Co. K, guard on truce boat, [91].
O
Oath, copy of iron-clad, [23].
At Old Capitol prisoners take it and say it is not binding, [62].
“The Oath”—parody on Hamlet’s soliloquy, [62].
O’Brien, Edward H., [82], [119].
Oeser, Felix (see De la Baume).
Off for Dixie, [89].
Old Capitol Prison, description and history, [20], [22], [24]-[5].
Escape of prisoners, [52].
My first night, [25].
Old men, women and children, [80].
Overcrowded, 39 in room 16, bunks for 21 only, [68], [69].
Prisoners in close confinement, [42].
Room No. 10, [86], [87].
Rooms 14 to 18, [25], [42], [69], [84].
Room 16, [24], [26], [28], [30].
Shooting of prisoners, [35], [37].
Old age no exception or exemption, [80].
Ould, Robert, Confederate agent of exchange, [97].
Letter to Federal agent, [123].
To National Intelligencer, [124].
Called as a witness for Wirz, but not allowed to testify, [136].
P
Parker, Captain, [38], [42], [56].
Parole granted me to visit sick child, [56].
Frank Thornton, [68].
Captain Phillips and Wood, [59].
General order No. 209, refusing to recognize, [124].
Gen. Early comments on same, [125].
Parole Camp, location of, [98].
A ration of flour and quarter of pound of bacon to each man, [102].
Life at Model Farm Barracks, [98].
Overcrowded, vermin, [105].
Prisoners from Camp Chase, Camp Douglas and Johnson’s Island tell of their treatment, [100].
Reports (official) verify their statements, [101].
To Upperville, [108].
We get a good feed of beans, [102].
Passers-by arrested and brought in, [26], [27], [32], [33].
Ladies and children not exempt, [27], [32], [38], [76], [87].
Pentz, John, [64], [68], [119].
Perry, William McK., [107], [119].
Petersburg in spring of 1863, [97], [98], [100], [103], [104].
Phillips, Captain Thomas, captured off North Carolina coast, [46], [119].
Released, [59], [78].
Sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, goods confiscated, [46].
Phillips, Captain Wesley, [75], [119].
Pope, Gen. John, order licensing his soldiers to plunder citizens, [45].
Porter, Col. James, [65].
Potomac River, going down on flag-of-truce boat, [90].
Powhatan House, Richmond, [108], [109].
Prison guard, Tenth New Jersey, [35].
At Camps Chase and Douglas, [100], [101].
Brutal and inhuman, [100], [101].
Shooting of prisoners, [36]-[7].
Threats to shoot, [35].
Prison life in Old Capitol,
[19].
Daily routine, [54].
How we passed the time, [29], [48], [50].
My first night in prison, [25].
Rations, recreations and rules—(see Old Capitol Prison).
Prison yard, description of, [54]-[5].
Filthy condition, [55], [85].
Meeting place for friends and comrades, [29].
Prisoners (see Treatment of).
Arrested, imprisoned and no charge against, [42]-[3], [60], [85].
Arrested, robbed and confined without trial, [42], [58], [84].
Conditions North and South, [11].
Ill-treatment and injustice, [42], [58].
In close confinement, [42].
Locked up and forgotten, [59].
March from prison to boat, [89].
Off for Dixie, [84].
Union soldiers, deserters and other offenses, [73].
Private mess in room 16, [26], [28], [30].
Provost-marshal’s office, [19], [58].
All letters must go through and take chance of delivery, [57].
Arrested on information and accuser unknown, [58].
Spies and detectives, [58].
Punishment for trifling offenses, [63], [69], [76].
Purcell, Volney, [85], [119].
R
Rainbow, John, witness in Wirz case, [137].
Randolph, ——, [53], [119].
Ratcliffe, Charles, [108], [114], [118].
Rations at Old Capitol, [22]-[6]-[7]-[8], [30].
At Camp Chase, [100].
At Camp Douglas, [104].
At Johnson’s Island, [100].
At Parole Camp, [98], [99].
On steamer State of Maine, [90]-[5].
Recreations and amusements, [26], [29].
Reilly, ——, [119].
Report of committee of Confederate Congress, [127]-[130].
Committee Sanitary commission, [128].
Gen. Seymour, [126].
No. 67, [127].
No. 209, refusal to recognize paroles, [124].
Rhoades, Rev. R. M., [66].
Richardson, George, [104], [119].
Richmond at outbreak of war, [14].
Gala days in, [14].
Hard times in, [16].
In 1863, [108].
Mayor Joseph Mayo, [40].
Parole Camp to, [108].
“Who wants to go to,” [88].
Rinaldi, Raphael, [61], [77], [119].
Ritchie & Dunnavant, [16], [49], [72].
Robbing prisoners, George S. Ayre, [44]-[5].
Redmond F. Brawner, [43].
James Johnson, [43].
James F. Kerfoot, [44].
Henry Love, [42].
Captain Thomas Phillips, [45].
Provost-marshal, [44].
Robertson River, along the, [110], [111].
Roll-call, [55], [81].
Room No. 10, close and ill-ventilated, [87].
Rooms Nos. 13, 14, 15, 18 and 19, [25], [42], [69], [84].
Room No. 16, description of, [24]-[6].
Formerly old senate chamber, [24].
Our mess, [26]-[8], [30].
Prisoners in, [119]-[121].
Prisoners sent South, [84].
Running the blockade, with my wife and children, [17].
Wilmington, port most frequently used, [47].
Russell, ——, [79], [119].
Russell, Major G. B., [142].
S
Schade, Louis, [132].
Sea-gulls, [92].
Seal, Mr., hotel, Madison Court House, [110].
Seymour, Gen., report, [126].
“Sheepskins,” outrages by, [65].
Shenandoah River, along the, [116].
Sherman, Captain, [104].
Shooting prisoners, Gen. John McNeil, [66].
Harry Stewart, [36]-[7].
Threats to shoot, [35], [37].
Jesse Wharton, [36].
Short, ——, [119].
“Sick call,” [54], [82].
Sidner, Captain Thomas A., [66].
Signal stations on James River, [95]-[6].
Simmons, Albert, [85], [88], [119].
Sinks, very offensive, [55].
“Slim Jim,” [29].
Smallpox, changed from room to room, [84].
Smith, Hiram, [66].
Smith, John C., [119].
Smith, Lieut., [104].
Songs and singing, [48]-[9], [50].
“All prisoners confined in Capitol jail,” [48].
Belle Boyd, [50]-[1].
Order prohibiting, [53].
Spence, William A., [121].
Spies and detectives, [29], [30].
Spy system and its injustice, [58].
Stant, James, [78], [119].
Stewart, Harry, killed by guard, [36]-[7].
State of Maine, flag-of-truce boat, [90].
Rations, [90].
Staterooms, [90], [94].
Stone’s Landing, on Potomac, [17].
Storm, R. B., [119].
Stormy traveling through mountain and valley, [111]-[115].
Stoughton, Brig.-Gen., war-time telegrapher tells of his capture, [154]-[5].
Sunday in Old Capitol, [34], [51].
Supper call, [28], [55].
Sutler, no competition and no cut rates, [28].
T
Tansell, James, [119].
Taylor, George, [119].
Taylor, John W., [119].
Taylor, James, [78], [119].
Taylor, Samuel, [119].
Thackery, Lieut., [78].
Thornton, Frank, [68], [79], [119].
Thornton, William, [119].
Treatment of prisoners, at Andersonville, (see Wirz).
Camps Chase and Douglas, [100]-[4].
Johnson’s Island, [100]-[1].
Efforts of Confederate authorities to relieve suffering, [123].
In Old Capitol, [73].
Gen. order No. 209, [124].
Ould’s letter to Hitchcock, [123].
Report of Confederate Congress, [127]-[130].
Report of Gen. Seymour, [126].
Statements of Confederate prisoners as to cruel treatment verified by official reports, [101].
U. S. authorities aware of sufferings, but did not want exchange, [125]-[6].
U
Unfortunate in matrimonial ventures, [60].
Uniforms, plain instead of showy, [15].
Upperville, from Parole Camp, [118].
V
Varner, Ambrose, [114].
Vermin, in Old Capitol, [67]-[8].
At Parole Camp, [105]-[6].
Vindication of the South, [129]-[30].
Virginia (Merrimac), iron-clad, [91].
Blown up off Craney Island, [92].
Visitors at Old Capitol, [30]-[1].
My wife rudely treated, [74].
Vivandieres, pretty on parade, [15].
W
Wade, John M., [65]-[6].
Ward, Charles, [119].
Ward, Walter W., [119].
Weiler, Emanuel, [38], [119].
Weitbrec, R. F., telegraph operator, tells of capture, [154]-[5].
Wessells and Seymour, Gens., [126].
Western prisoners, at Old Capitol, [64], [75].
A brave young hero, [65].
At Fortress Monroe, [90].
At Johnson’s Island, [100]-[1].
At Parole Camp corroborate accounts given at Old Capitol, [100].
Gen. John McNeil’s brutal massacre, [65]-[6].
Ill-treatment, sickness and great mortality among, [100]-[105].
150 brought from St. Louis, [75].
Outrages and bitter feeling in the West, [64]-[7].
Westmoreland Court House, [17].
Westover on the James, [95].
Wharton, Jesse W., killed, [36], [132].
Whelan, Rev. Father, called as witness, not allowed to testify, [136].
Whiskey, how obtained, [53], [80].
Charlie, our friendly contraband, [53].
Guards ready for consideration, [53].
Defeats escape planned, [52]-[3].
Chew Carter gets more than his share, [81].
He also finds it in hospital, [82]-[3].
“Who wants to go to Dixie,” 80, [88].
Wiget, S. J., Rev. B. F., attended Wirz with Father Boyle, [132], [142]-[3].
Williams, Augustus, arrested and imprisoned four times, [104], [119].
Familiarly greeted by Wood, [37].
His son, 12 years old, and two daughters imprisoned three months, [104].
Williams, W. F., [119].
Williamson, James J., early life, [11].
Arrest and imprisoned in Old Capitol, [19].
At outbreak of war, [12].
At Parole Camp, [98].
At provost-marshal’s office, [58].
Examined by Col. Buell, [85]-[6].
Examined by Captain Parker, [38], [42].
Examined by Col. Wood, [72]-[3].
Granted parole to see sick child, [56].
In railroad wreck, [14].
In Richmond, [15], [40], [108]-[9].
Leave sick-bed to go South, [13].
Off for Dixie, [88].
Meet old schoolmate in prison, [79].
Regularly mustered into Confederate service, [105].
Wilmington, N. C., port most frequently used in running the blockade, [46]-[7].
Winder, Major Richard B., letter regarding offer to pardon Wirz, [139].
Wirz’s farewell, [141].
Wirz, Major Henry, after close of war arrested and imprisoned, [135].
Brief sketch of, [133].
Charged with conspiracy, but no other punished, [138].
Charges and specifications, [138].
Extracts from his diary, [147]-[51].
Father Whelan, [136].
Father B. F. Wiget, S. J., [142]-[3].
Gen. Imboden, [135].
Good-bye to Winder, [141].
Hired witnesses swear his life away, [137].
Last letter to his wife and children, [145]-[6].
Letter from his wife, [144].
Letter of Gen. Imboden, [134].
Letter of Rev. Father Boyle, [139], [140].
Letter of Robert Ould, [136].
Letter of Major Winder, [139].
Letters in official records show efforts to relieve prisoners, [134].
Marini, a witness, [136].
Marquis De la Baume, [137].
Monument at Andersonville, [152].
Night before execution, [141].
Not responsible for sufferings at Andersonville, [125], [130].
Promoted to captaincy for bravery on battlefield, [133].
Promoted to rank of major, [133].
Rainbow, John, a witness, [137].
Rev. Father Boyle, [135], [139]-[40]-[1]-[2].
Rejects proposal to purchase pardon by perjury, [139], [140].
Scene at the scaffold, [142]-[3].
Schade, Louis, [132].
Tried by military commission, [135].
U. S. authorities refuse to give up body for burial, [135].
Witnesses not allowed to testify in his behalf, [135]-[6].
Wood, Col. William P., supt. Old Capitol Prison, [38].
Biographical sketch, [33]-[4].
Gospel according to Abe Lincoln and Jeff. Davis, [34].
Gus Williams, [37].
Wrecks of Congress and Cumberland, [91]-[2].
Wrenn, Lieut. Albert, [99], [104]-[8]-[13]-[14].
Wright, J., [90]-[4], [119].
Wynne, Captain, escaped from Old Capitol, [46].
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