Sawyer, Henry Washington

Life Span
to
Full name
Henry Washington Sawyer
Place of Birth
Lehigh County, PA
Burial Place
Cape May, NJ
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
Occupation
Other
Other Occupation
Carpenter, Hotelier
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Presbyterian
Military
Union Army
Date Event
Confederate authorities select two Union officer prisoners for a retaliatory execution at Libby Prison
Date Title
Captain Henry W. Sawyer to his Wife, from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia
Henry Sawyer to James Stradling, letter recounting experiences in Libby Prison, July 1863
Henry W. Sawyer to John T. Nixon, November 1, 1863
Date Title
Captain Henry W. Sawyer to his Wife, from Libby Prison, Richmond, Virginia
Orders from Henry Wager Halleck to William Handy Ludlow, July 15, 1863
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