Dublin Core
Title
Pvt. Alfred Cannon (Canal Winchester, Ohio)
Contributor
pj44@st-andrews.ac.uk
Type
Site
Identifier
2608
Extent
m x m x m
Spatial Coverage
current,39.845590259920584,-82.80575728836413;
Europeana
Country
United States of America
Europeana Data Provider
Pvt. Alfred Cannon (Canal Winchester, Ohio)
Europeana Type
TEXT
Site Item Type Metadata
Wiki
https://www.cineg.org/wiki/index.php/Pvt._Alfred_Cannon_(Canal_Winchester,_Ohio)
Monument Type
Stone – carved
Inscription
"Pvt. Alfred Cannon 95th O.V.I. Co-D
8-18-1862 to 1-21-1865
P.O.W.
Resident of Canal Winchester
enlisted to preserve the Union.
Taken prisoner at Brices
Crossroads, MS. and marched
to Andersonville, GA., Confederate
prison. He gave up his place
of exchange to a friend stating,
""Go to your family"". Pvt. Cannon
died at Florence, SC., Confederate
prison of typhoid fever.
""Greater love than this has
no man, that he lay down
his life for a friend.""
Alfred Cannon G.A.R. Post #261
was chartered in him memory"
State
Ohio
County
Franklin
Affiliation
Union
City
Canal Winchester
Location Type
Park