Lt. Benjamin Bartlett of the 42nd Regiment, Massachusetts Militia, arrived in Galveston, Texas, on December 19, 1862. The 42nd Regiment participated in the Battle of Galveston on January 1, 1863, until their reluctant surrender. Magruder's men captured the soldiers of the 42nd. The Confederates took the enlisted men to Houston. However, their captors soon paroled them. The officers spent time in Houston and Huntsville before being sent to Camp Groce, a POW camp in Hempstead. It was at Camp Groce that Lt. Bartlett died during an outbreak of yellow fever. | Source: Schmidt, Jim, Lt. Benjamin Bartlett - Died - August 22, 1863," Civil War Medicine (And Writing), August 22, 2013, http://civilwarmed.blogspot.com/2013/08/lt-benjamin-bartlett-died-august-22-1863.html.Download Original File
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Schmidt, Jim, Lt. Benjamin Bartlett - Died - August 22, 1863," Civil War Medicine (And Writing), August 22, 2013, http://civilwarmed.blogspot.com/2013/08/lt-benjamin-bartlett-died-august-22-1863.html.
