Confederate Document Signed by a Member of the Immortal 600

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Confederate Manuscript Document Signed, “John Arrington 1st Lt & Act Adjt 42 Va. Regt.”, 1p. 5”x12”, December 31, 1863, being a “requisition for Forage for one horse in the service of CS Army at Camp”, and signed by Arrington as being a true statement. Fine.1st Lieutenant John Arrington, enlisted as private in Company I of the 42nd Virginia Infantry, in July, 1861, served as Acting Regimental Adjutant, was taken POW at Spotsylvania Court House, confined at Fort Delaware, then transferted to Hilton Head, South Carolina as a part of the group of Confederate Officers who would later be known as The Immortal Six Hundred. The officers' plight started in South Carolina when Edwin M. Stanton, Federal Secretary of War, ordered that 600 prisoners of war be positioned on Morris Island in Charleston harbor within direct line of fire from Confederate guns at Fort Sumter. Stanton's order followed word that 600 Union officers imprisoned in the city of Charleston were exposed to direct line of fire from federal artillery. The standoff continued until a yellow fever epidemic forced Confederate Major General S. Jones to remove the prisoners from the city limits. The federal command then transferred the surviving Confederate officers from the open stockade at Morris Island to Fort Pulaski.

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