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McMichael, J. R. (James Robert)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1835 - 1893

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Captain James Robert McMichael Civil War diary and letters

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS234f
Scope and Content

This collection includes a typed transcription of a diary of Captain James Robert McMichael written while a prisoner-of-war. The collection also contains typed transcriptions of letters received while in prison at Fort Delaware, names of units of fellow prisoners, and their signatures, a poem by Captain Jas. R. McCallum of Knoxville, Tennessee; and a tally of Confederate officers sent from Fort Delaware on board the USS Crescent to Morris Island.

Dates: 1864-1865