Letter from Asa D. Oakley in Northern prison camp to "Dear Companion"
Title
Letter from Asa D . Oakley in Northern prison camp to "Dear Companion "
Description
Letter from Asa D . Oakley to wife , Mary Louisa Kennerly Oakley , dated June 25 , 1864 , from Point Lookout , Maryland (prison camp) . Asa reports that he has been "treated mighty well " by his captors . Sgt . Oakley , from Coffee County , was in the 44th Tenn . Inf . Regt. , CSA . The regiment was organized at Camp Trousdale in Dec . 1861 , and fought at Shiloh , Tullahoma , Wartrace , and Chickamauga . Asa died Sept . 21 , 1916 .
Date
1864 June 25
Place of original
Point Lookout (Md.)
Location Digitized
Tullahoma, Coffee County, Tennessee
ID#
coff016
Digital type
Text
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