Collection #

SC 2828

 

 

James M. Pierson, Confederate Prisoner of War Document, 1863

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Kathryn Wilmot
August 2007

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

1 folder

COLLECTION
DATES:

1863

PROVENANCE:

Legacy Books, Louisville, KY, November 1999

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

None

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

2000.0118

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

James M. Pierson joined the Army of the Confederate States of America as a private. By 1863, he was serving as a first sergeant in Company B of the 1st Regiment Tennessee Heavy Artillery (Jackson’s Regiment).

Pierson was captured at the Battle of Vicksburg, also known as the Siege of Vicksburg, from 18 May to 4 July 1863. During this battle, Major General Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Tennessee succeeded in obtaining the surrender of Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton and the Army of Vicksburg, thus gaining control over the Mississippi River.

Sources:

Information in the collection.

Ancestry Library Edition. Available at: http://www.ancestrylibrary.com

National Park Service website, CWSAC battle summaries. Available at: http://www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp/battles/ms011.htm

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection consists of a prisoner of war certificate dated 16 July 1863 signed by James M. Pierson after the Battle of Vicksburg stating he “will not take up arms again against the United States.”

CONTENTS

CONTENTS

CONTAINER

James M. Pierson, C.S.A. prisoner of war certificate, 16 July 1863

Folder 1

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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