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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Ambrose George Green Papers #5490, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Jane P. Tuttle of Irmo, S.C., in March 2011 (Acc. 101047).

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• Confederate States of America. Army. North Carolina Infantry Regiment, 1st.
• Elmira Prison (Elmira, N.Y.)
• Green, Ambrose George, 1842-1928.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Point Lookout Prison Camp for Confederates.
• Prisoners of war--United States--History--19th century.
• Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Ambrose George Green (1842-1928) was born in Halifax County, N.C., and served with the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He was captured in Virginia at the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on 12 May 1864 and was held in Union prison camps at Point Lookout, Md., and later at Elmira, N.Y., in 1864 and 1865.

The collection includes two writings by Ambrose George Green containing information about the circumstances of his capture and imprisonment and several letters, 1864-1865, to him in prison from Mrs. E. Baker of Baltimore, Md. There is also an 1892 letter to Green regarding an unpaid debt, as well as miscellaneous envelopes and receipts.