civil war prisoner of war confinement
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civil war prisoner of war confinement
According to lore and some sketchy pension documentation,
my great-uncle George Henry Gottfried Ottmers was confined after the battle of Maxville , in New Orleans, in a facility known as
Pecan Cotton Press. Could this possibly have been a cotton gin ON Pecan Street or Avenue ? I have been able to find NOTHING about this place and am hoping it was simply a business of the time, and beyond my wildest dreams that there might be some documentation of it. Upon his furlough in a prisoner exchange,he was sent on his way with only the clothes on his back and walked from New Orleans, LA to Fredericksburg,Texas, where his family thought the dead had risen since they had not heard from him in about two years.
He was captured Penecost Sunday,1864 and held for three months. He had served 3 1/2 years with Stucken's Co E Buechel's First Regiment Texas Calvary.
Many Thanks for ANY information,
DL Sagebiel
my great-uncle George Henry Gottfried Ottmers was confined after the battle of Maxville , in New Orleans, in a facility known as
Pecan Cotton Press. Could this possibly have been a cotton gin ON Pecan Street or Avenue ? I have been able to find NOTHING about this place and am hoping it was simply a business of the time, and beyond my wildest dreams that there might be some documentation of it. Upon his furlough in a prisoner exchange,he was sent on his way with only the clothes on his back and walked from New Orleans, LA to Fredericksburg,Texas, where his family thought the dead had risen since they had not heard from him in about two years.
He was captured Penecost Sunday,1864 and held for three months. He had served 3 1/2 years with Stucken's Co E Buechel's First Regiment Texas Calvary.
Many Thanks for ANY information,
DL Sagebiel