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Collection Reference Number GLC03131.15.41
From Archive Folder Collection of Hiram C. Wells 
Title Royal Arcanum membership
Author Wells, Hiram C. (fl. 1825-1900)  
Document Type Non-governmental organization document
Subjects Fraternal Organization  
People Wells, Hiram C. (fl. 1825-1865)  
Place written Michigan
Theme Religion
Sub-collection Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Additional Information Enlisted on 10 November 1862 at Almont, Michigan as a private. On 20 January 1863 he mustered into "E" Co. MI 8th Cavalry. He was discharged on 9 June 1865 at Detroit, Michigan. Throughout the war he was listed as POW on 4 August 1864 in Macon, Georgia, exchanged on 22 April 1865 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and survived an explosion on 27 April 1865 on the steamer "Sultana," in Memphis, Tennessee.
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945