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The Immortal Six Hundred By: Maj. J. Ogden Murray
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The Immortal Six Hundred By: Maj. J. Ogden Murray
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ABOUT THE BOOK
This book chronicles the ordeal of six hundred Confederate officers who were confined by their Yankee captors in the stockade on Morris Island, South Carolina, directly under the fire of Confederate guns, and then were subsequently starved on rations of rotten corn and onion pickle at Fort Pulaski, Georgia and Hilton Head, South Carolina by order of U.S. Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. The author, a Major in the Confederate Army, was one of the survivors of the group. |
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Maj. J. Ogden Murray was an officer in the Confederate Army, and one of the survivors of the group. He was captured at Gettysburg and was at that time a Captian in the 7th Virginia Cavalry. The Immortal Six Hundred originally published in 1905 available in paperback; 274 pages - The Confederate Reprint Company |