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Group of Union officers who escaped from Confed. prison at Columbia, S.C., in the fall of '64 also three guides procured in the mountains of Tennessee No. 1. Capt. M.M. Bassett, Co. E 53rd Ills. Inf. No. 7. Capt. T.P. Young & A.S. Stewart, 4th Kty. who with six others attempted to escape by running the guard at two o'clock a.m. Nov. 10th 1864. The other 6 were recaptured & killed. No. 2. Col. W.S. Marshall. No. 3. Capt. Dobbs. No. 4. Fowler. No. 5. M. Hoffman. No. 6. Page. No. 9 Jno. McAdams. Nos. 10, 11, & 12 guides. Summary

Photograph shows group portrait of former prisoners of war and guides taken upon their arrival at Knoxville, Tennessee, on January 1, 1865. Three of the prisoners of war, Capt. Mark M. Bassett of Co. E, 53rd Illinois Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Thomas P. Young and Alfred S. Stewart of Co. A, 4th Kentucky Infantry Regiment, escaped from Columbia, S.C., on November 10, 1864. Major William Stanhope Marshall of Co. E, 5th Iowa Infantry Regiment, escaped from Columbia, S.C., on November 28, 1864. Lieutenant Michael Hoffman of Co. D, 5th Iowa Infantry Regiment, was a prisoner at Columbia, S.C., but his escape date is unknown. Lieutenant John McAdams of Co. G, 10th West Virginia Infantry Regiment, was a prisoner at Columbia, S.C., but his escape date is also unknown. Three of the prisoners of war, partially identified as Capt. Dobbs, Fowler, and Page had escaped at other times and joined the group in the mountains. Guides were Confederate deserters Private David Ledford, Private Joseph Fleming ("Joe Flem") Cisson (also spelled Cison) of Co. F, 2nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, and a boy labeled Tom Zachary who was 14 years old.