First-hand accounts of the escaped Yankee prisoners in the Swamp Wars with the Lowery family. Includes a detailed account of Owen Thomas Wright's capture by the Home Guard.
Published 1909 by Lumbee Pub. Co. in Lumberton, N.C .Written in English
Photograph of Owen Thomas Wright and his wife, Julia (O'Donald) Wright, with their four daughters. Handwritten inscription reads: "Owen T. Wright of Mead Centre, Kansas."
Researcher Lisa Bauman, a descendant of Joshua Rice, has pointed out that Owen Thomas Wright was a Union soldier imprisoned with Joshua Rice at Andersonville during the Civil War. Along with Charles C. Thayer (see # RICE-AN001-0002-0052), these men became close friends and helped each other to get through their days at the prison. Bauman references "Sunshine in Andersonville" by Rev. F. M. Cain, chapters 2 and 12, for this information.
Original, professional photograph from Browner, Cottage Studio, Garden City, Kas.
The Rice-Fordyce Series photographs were passed from Joshua Rice [1840-1896] and his wife, Henrietta Fordyce [1846-1920], to their son John Lockwood Rice [1886-1964] and his wife, Mary Irene Phillips [1887-1959], to their son John Robert Rice who owned and shared the photographs with the Greene Connections: Greene County, Pennsylvania Photo Archives Project in 2006. The Rice-Fordyce Series is a part of the John Robert Rice Collection.
