Amos Cressy was born in Manchester, NH in 1823. He enlisted in the Civil War by joining the New Hampshire 4th Regiment, Company E. He was a private and was age 38 when he left to go to battle on 16 September 1861. He died as a POW at Bell Isle prison, a small island off the coast of Richmond. The prison itself was like most of the Confederate prisons. The had a very small shacks and the island did not afford any protection from the elements. Soldiers had 3,000 tents for 10,000 men
The writer Walt Whitman questioned when he saw the prisions returned at the end of the war from Bell Isle gives insight to the human suffering endured he said, "Can those be men?" Those livid brown, ash streaked monkey looking drawves, are they really not mummified corpses?"
Pvt Cressy's remains were not returned to New Hampshire
He is memorialized in the NH 4ths regiment Company E grave site of "those that did not return" at Pine Grove Cemetery, unknown where he is actually buried.
His wife Mary received his pension.
He also has a memorial stone in Merrill Cemetery with his wife Mary and two children
The writer Walt Whitman questioned when he saw the prisions returned at the end of the war from Bell Isle gives insight to the human suffering endured he said, "Can those be men?" Those livid brown, ash streaked monkey looking drawves, are they really not mummified corpses?"
Pvt Cressy's remains were not returned to New Hampshire
He is memorialized in the NH 4ths regiment Company E grave site of "those that did not return" at Pine Grove Cemetery, unknown where he is actually buried.
His wife Mary received his pension.
He also has a memorial stone in Merrill Cemetery with his wife Mary and two children
Amos Cressy was born in Manchester, NH in 1823. He enlisted in the Civil War by joining the New Hampshire 4th Regiment, Company E. He was a private and was age 38 when he left to go to battle on 16 September 1861. He died as a POW at Bell Isle prison, a small island off the coast of Richmond. The prison itself was like most of the Confederate prisons. The had a very small shacks and the island did not afford any protection from the elements. Soldiers had 3,000 tents for 10,000 men
The writer Walt Whitman questioned when he saw the prisions returned at the end of the war from Bell Isle gives insight to the human suffering endured he said, "Can those be men?" Those livid brown, ash streaked monkey looking drawves, are they really not mummified corpses?"
Pvt Cressy's remains were not returned to New Hampshire
He is memorialized in the NH 4ths regiment Company E grave site of "those that did not return" at Pine Grove Cemetery, unknown where he is actually buried.
His wife Mary received his pension.
He also has a memorial stone in Merrill Cemetery with his wife Mary and two children
The writer Walt Whitman questioned when he saw the prisions returned at the end of the war from Bell Isle gives insight to the human suffering endured he said, "Can those be men?" Those livid brown, ash streaked monkey looking drawves, are they really not mummified corpses?"
Pvt Cressy's remains were not returned to New Hampshire
He is memorialized in the NH 4ths regiment Company E grave site of "those that did not return" at Pine Grove Cemetery, unknown where he is actually buried.
His wife Mary received his pension.
He also has a memorial stone in Merrill Cemetery with his wife Mary and two children
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a memorial to those who were lost
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