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The Bristoe Campaign - October 9-23, 1863

The start of the Bristow/Bristoe Campaign marks an important time in the Eighty-Eighth's history. On October 7-8, 1863 some of the returning prisoners of war captured at the Battle of Gettysburg are returned to the regiment.

Among the paroled soldiers are:

Company A:  Sergeant George Shirey
                        Private John Beaumont (killed at Petersburg, Va, June 18, 1864)

Company C  Corporal David Trexler
                        Private William Boyd
                        Private George W. Green
                        Private James Hague (wounded at Spotsylvania, Va May 10, 1864) 
                        
Company E:  Sergeant Samuel English (captured again at Spotsylvania, Va, May 12, 1864)

Company F:  Sergeant Henry Wortz
                        Private Isaac Krewson

Company I:   Private John Hart
                       Private Willie Hand

Company K:  Private Neal Devine (wounded at the Battle of Wilderness)
                        Private John S. Campbell

These troops will be among some of the last soldiers paroled as Federal authorities no longer mutually agreed to exchange prisoners. Soldiers from the Eighty-Eighth who were captured in later battles spent the remainder of the war in rebel prisons such as Andersonville, Georgia or Salisbury, North Carolina suffering in horrendous conditions.


                           
                         
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The Battle of Bristoe Station - Harpers Weekly - http://www.sonofthesouth.net
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Click thumbnail to open a larger map on the Civil War Trust Website @ http://www.civilwar.org

Out of 76,000 Union troops and 45,000 Confederate  troops engaged, there were 4,815  total casualties including 1,973 Confederate prisoners at Rappahannock Station.
 
Lee's Confederate forces failed to acheive their primary objective of bringing the Union forces into a decisive battle or preventing Union reenforcements to the western theater.

The Bristoe Campaign was a Union Victory
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