Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
Lt. John P. Sheahan of the 31st Maine Infantry wrote to his father in Dennysville asking him to send $40 in gold "immediately." It was the second time Sheahan had made the request, but his father apparently had not received the letters.
Sheahan, who had been held prisoner since the end of July 1864, had already made a plan to escape. He instructed his father in how to acquire and send the gold and other items, including pants, shirts, stockings, and a blanket. He suggested his father send two boxes as "one or the other will be likely to reach me."
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About This Item
- Title: POW Sheahan plea for money, South Carolina, 1864
- Creator: John P. Sheahan
- Creation Date: 1864-11-02
- Subject Date: 1864
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Locations:
- Columbia, SC
- Dennysville, Washington County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Dimensions: 19.4 cm x 15.6 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 184, Box 1/10
- Collection: John Parris Sheahan papers
- Object Type: Text
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Camp Sorghum (Columbia, S.C.)
- Letters
- Money
- Prisoner-of-war escapes
- Prisoners of war
- Sheahan, John Parris--Correspondence
- Soldiers--Maine
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons
- United States. Army. Maine Infantry Regiment, 31st (1864-1865)
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