Tag: Confederate prisoner of war

• Remembering the Brave Heroes

  My great-grandfather, Harmon Camburn, enlisted in the Union Army in 1861 two weeks after the start of the Civil War. He was nineteen. His infantry unit, 2nd Michigan, fought in several major battles during the horrific war. His final and nearly fatal active participation in the war occurred on November 24, 1863. His unit had […]

  P. C. Zick

  May 29, 2022

  Books by P. C. Zick, Civil War, Ramblings of a Writer

  Civil War, Civil War Journal of a Union Soldier, Confederate army, Confederate prisoner of war, heroes, Knoxville, Memorial Day, Union army, Union Soldier

• Inheriting a Family Legacy

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick In the past few weeks, I’ve immersed myself in the writings of my great grandfather. The man, Harmon Camburn, died fifty-two years before my birth. I know he was the father of my paternal grandfather. That’s about the whole of it, except for the journal he wrote for his children chronicling […]

  P. C. Zick

  August 26, 2013

  Ramblings of a Writer

  Civil War, Confederate prisoner of war, Cornwall, grandfather, Michigan, Union army, writing, writing legacy