101st Pennsylvania Volunteers Died as Prisoner in Charleston

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Pair of documents pertaining to William R. Cameron, Co. ‘B’, 101st Pennsylvania Volunteers, taken POW at Plymouth, North Carolina, imprisoned at Andersonville and moved after the fall of Atlanta to Charleston where he would die as a prisoner in October, 1864, includes: Partly-printed Letter Signed in type, 1p. quarto, Office of the Commissary General of Prisoners, Washington D.C., July 22, 1867, acknowledging the “…claim of the heirs of Wm. R. Cameron Pr. Co. B 101 Pa. Vol for commutation for rations while a prisoner of war…” VG…plus; Autograph Letter Signed, “E.B. French” as auditor, 1p. quarto, Treasury Department, Second Auditor’s Office, June 3, 1868, and reads in part: “…The claim for commutation of Rations received through the war office in the case of W.R. Cameron late private Co. B 101 Reg. Pa. Vols has been taken up for settlement and rejected…” VG. (2 items)

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