J. Ogden Murray

John Ogden Murray (c. 1840 – 1921) was a major in the Confederate Army, an author,[1] and a newspaper editor. He is credited with coining the phrase "Immortal Six Hundred."[2] He wrote a firsthand account of Confederate prisoners of war.[3] The Virginia Museum of History and Culture has a collection of his papers.[4]

He wrote about a planned exchange of prisoners being halted by Union military commander Ulysses S. Grant. According to Ogden, prisoner exchanges were officially halted in July 1863, due to Confederate refusal to include black prisoners of war, but some generals continued arranging unofficial exchanges.[5]

His scrapbook is part of the West Virginia University's library collection as newspaper articles written by Edward H. Sims, ca. 1949 based on Murray's book.[6]

Bibliography

  • The Immortal Six Hundred; A Story of Cruelty to Confederate Prisoners of War (1905)[1][7][8][9] (Full text at the Internet Archive)
  • Confederate Sketches: The Southern Statesman, The Confederate Soldier, The South's Peerless Women[10][11]
  • Jefferson Davis and the Southern People were not traitors, nor Rebels[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Murray, John Ogden, 1840-1921 | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
  2. ^ Coddington, Ronald S. (2008). Faces of the Confederacy: An Album of Southern soldiers and their stories. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9019-2.
  3. ^ Joslyn, Mauriel Phillip (September 23, 2010). Immortal Captives: The Story of 600 Confederate Officers and the United States Prisoner of War Policy. Arcadia. ISBN 9781455606269.
  4. ^ "McCalla - Myer". Virginia Museum of History & Culture. May 3, 2013.
  5. ^ "Not Even Past: Social Vulnerability and the Legacy of Redlining". dsl.richmond.edu.
  6. ^ "Collection: J. Ogden Murray Scrapbook | West Virginia University Archivesspace". archives.lib.wvu.edu.
  7. ^ Williams, Timothy J.; Kutzler, Evan A. (February 2018). Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863–1866. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820351940.
  8. ^ "Catalogue of copyright entries: Books. Part 1. Group 1". 1911.
  9. ^ "Bulletin of the Virginia State Library". 1915.
  10. ^ Murray, John (August 12, 2015). Confederate Sketches: The Southern Statesman, The Confederate Soldier, The South's Peerless Women. Confederate Reprint Company. ISBN 9780692506523 – via Google Books.
  11. ^ Three stories in one: The Statesman; The Confederate Soldier, the Ideal Soldier of the World; The South's Peerless Women of the World. Civil War unit histories. Whittet & Shepperson, printers]. 1915. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  12. ^ Jefferson Davis and the Southern people were not traitors, nor rebels: They were patriots, who loved the Constitution and obeyed the laws made for the protection of all American citizens. A short story of the Confederate soldier, the ideal soldier of the world. Manassas Democrat Press]. 1911. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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