Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Sangston's manuscript, "Personal Journal of a Prisoner of State," consists of 211 handwritten pages bound into one volume, interspersed with newspaper clippings and occassional edits to the text in pencil. Sangston records his experiences as a political prisoner day by day, beginning with his arrest on September 12, 1861 and continuing up to the day of his release on December 27, 1861. The appendices to the manuscript are contained in five folders. There are two scrapbooks in the...