People

Confederate Vermonters

Green Mountain Boys Who "Went South"

The majority of Vermonters who "went south" moved to a Southern State before the war, some more than twenty years before. One was visiting relatives in Missouri when the war broke out, and apparently joined a local unit without really understanding the political implications. There were at least seven who had joined Vermont units and were taken prisoner, or deserted, and either joined Confederate units or took an oath of allegiance to the Confederacy, and fifteen Vermonters, unnamed, were seen in a Chicago prison camp.

Babcock, Bradley W.
Barber, Samuel S.
Bard, Henry Holmes
Beauclerk, Thomas W. S.
Benson, Ellis
Benway, Charles
Blackmar, Armand Edward
Bliss, James Monroe
Breen, James C.
Carter, Henry Gray
Conger, Charles
Corse, Malcolm Sears
Crane, Charles
Davis, James Bliss
Davis, Pliny Earl
Dwinell, Melvin
Fisk, James Edgar
Fleury, Harry John
Fremont, Sewell Lawrence
Frost, Alden J.
Gaskill, Varney A.
Gill, Thomas N.
Green, George W.
Greene, Ranney
Grow, Milo Walbridge
Hart, Hubbard L.
Hemenway, David Jr.
Higby, Edward I.
Huntington, Alvah C. A.
Kelsey, Alvah George
Labardie, Nelson
Lahaize, Oliver
Leland, Oscar Hopestill
Marsh, Otis Mason
Maverick, Lewis
Maxham, William Ransom
McCarty, Henry
Moreau, Julius
Nutting, Charles Allen
Oatman, Stephen B.
Parker, James
Parkhurst, Austin S.
Robinson, Charles Henry
Robinson, Frederick G.
Rock, Peter
Royce, Moses Strong
Russell, William Bass
Sawyer, Eliphet M. B.
Scott, Charles
Shepherd, Jonathan Avery
Smith, Franklin Gillette
Smith, Otis David
Spoor, William Barnabas
Stevens, Albert Mack
Stevens, Hoit Charles
Stone, John
Tucker, Stephen S.
Tupper, Tullius Cicero
Van Doorn, Charles A.
Von Strantz, Benno
Wadsworth, John
Wells, Thomas P.
Wetherby, Luther Paris
Wilbur, Aaron
Wilcox, Edward Warren
Wing, Levi H.
Yott, Moses M.

Another Fifteen Confederates

Major Edward Hastings Ripley, 9th Vermont, while the regiment was on parole at Camp Douglass, near Chicago, noted in a letter to his mother in early 1863, that there were 15 Vermonters among the Confederate prisoners they were guarding.

Source: Ripley, Edward Hastings. Vermont general: the unusual war experiences of Edward Hastings Ripley, 1862-1865. Edited by Otto Eisenschiml. New York, Devin-Adair, 1960., page 73.