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Salisbury's The Place! Thursday August 28, 2008

Salisbury Confederate Prison

The following is a rare picture of the Trinity Guard made during the summer of 1861 before the main college building in Randolph County, North Carolina. The man in the center is Braxton Craven; to his right is Professor W.T. Gannaway, and to his left is Professor Isaiah L. Wright. Those in the background were the men of the first confederate guard unit at the Salisbury Prison.
 
The first Guard unit of the Salisbury Confederate Prison
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Visit the National Cemetery on Military Drive to see where Salisbury Civil war prisoners are buried in 18 trenches 240 feet in length with estimates placing the number in the trenches at 11,700¹ and the individual graves of another 412 prisoners of which 283 are unknown.

¹ Report by COL. Oscar Mack, August 18, 1871

     
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Click for full size		 US Monument
This is the south side of the monument erected by the United States Government at the Salisbury Cemetery in 1876. The statement from the monument is enlarged below.		 usmonins2.jpg (57169 bytes)
             
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