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Wyles SC 217
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Title: Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund Broadside
Dates: ca. 1864
Collection Number: Wyles SC 217
Extent:
.01 linear feet
(1 folder)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library.
Dept. of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Abstract: One broadside, "Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund," soliciting contributions from Southerners residing in Europe during the
Civil War. Printed in Liverpool, England, ca. 1864.
Physical Location: Vault
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund Broadside. Wyles SC 217. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of
California, Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 1982.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains one broadside, "Southern Prisoners' Relief Fund," soliciting contributions from Southerners residing
in Europe during the Civil War. The item is printed in Liverpool, England, ca. 1864, and reads, in part:
"There are at this time many thousands of Confederate prisoners of war confined in the various forts and camps of the Northern
States. A large proportion of them are wounded or sick, and all are in a state of destitution, the accounts of which, as given
in private letters and in the newspapers, present a picture of human suffering which has scarcely a parallel in modern times.
The merest necessaries of life are wanting, and frequently the wounded prisoner has no raiment save that which is stark and
stiffened with his clotted blood These men, cut off from the assistance of their kindred or the protection of their Government,
have peculiar claims on the patriotism of their countrymen in Europe and upon Christian benevolence everywhere This Southern
Prisoners' Relief Fund is intended to mitigate some of these sufferings which cannot altogether be relieved. Within little
more than a twelvemonth nearly £3,000 have been collected and expended in relief. The Managers of the Fund are assisted in
their efforts by self-devoted ladies in the principal Northern cities, who visit the sufferers and give them such aid as the
means at their disposal render possible. Of late the Federal Government has granted permission that this Samaritan work may
be done openly."
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.