The Bixby Letter

[Steve]

A new article about the Bixby letter was published last month by someone named Joshua Nieters. A good deal of it is recapping from other sources and there are a few errors (ie the wrong Mrs Bixby photo, the parole camp being located at Indianapolis instead of Annapolis, etc). But there is a bunch of new information on son George Bixby before the war and son Edward Bixby before and after the war:

http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/the-wid...2018/07/21

Especially important are two newspaper accounts found by Nieters. One is a letter printed in the 04 April 1874 Boston Globe:



The other, and most intriguing new information, is an 1870 article on son Edward's trial for larceny where he told the court of his Civil War activities and post-war activities, including a sojourn to South America.

Based on other Civil War POW's, I've always suspected that son Henry, who died of consumption/tuberculosis in 1871, contracted it while a prisoner. But the Globe article above is the first evidence that would seem to prove that.