Daniel Boardman Janes

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Name:Daniel B Janes
Event Type:Marriage
Birth Date:abt 1829
Marriage Date:28 Feb 1857
Marriage Place:Topsfield, Massachusetts
Marriage Age:28
Father Name:Samuel Janes
Mother Name:Elizabeth Janes
Spouse Name:Sophila S Niles
Spouse Marriage Age:18
Spouse Father Name:William Niles
Spouse Mother Name:Hannah Niles

1860 Georgetown, Essex, MA incorrect sp of surname
Daniel Jones [Janes]30
Cynthia Jones20
Orissa Jones10
Carrie Jones5
Harland Jones2

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Union & Confederate Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865
The Florence Prison was in operation for approximately 5 months during the time period of Sept 1864 through Feb 1865. During this time, as many as 15,000 - 18,000 Union soldiers were held captive. Of these, approximately 2,802 Union soldiers died.
The Florence Stockade has not received the same notoriety as Andersonville, but the conditions were very much the same. In fact, by many accounts, Florence was worse. It must also be realized that most of the prisoners at Florence had already survived a hard summer at Andersonville and now faced going through the winter with little to no clothing or shelter.

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Cassander Flagg Captain of 16th MA Vols Company H
Excerpts taken from his letter - .... while in the line of duty and on the march to Brandy Station, VA [c 1 May 1864] he [Daniel B. Janes] was taken sick and permitted to "fall out of the ranks"..."taken by Provost Guard and kept wtih them until the Battle of Brandy Station VA [8 May 1864].. when he was put on Provost duty at the front..taken prisoner by the enemy and carried to Andersonville GA and afterwards to Florence, SC where he died on 26 November 1864 of chronic diarrhea contracted by him while in the said prison and caused by the bad water, food and exposure of the rebel prison..." that at "this time of said Janes captive the orders were to report every man a deserter unless killed or known to be a prisoner of war and upon that order said Janes was erroneously marked "deserter" when he was not as I have since learned was a "prisoner of war"..that said Janes was not a deserter and would not have been charged with it on the rolls had he been known to have been a prisoner.
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Widow's Pension
Sophila Janes widow of Daniel B. Janes Private in CO H; 16 MA Regiment [to receive ] 8 dollars/month commencing 27 Nov 1864 and additional $2 per month for each of the following children until arriving at the age of sixteen years commencing 25 July 1866 - Daniel W. Janes 3 Aug 1878
[their son Harland died July 1864]

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Daniel may be buried in Florence National Cemetery as it was opened in Sept of 1864 and he died Nov 1865 based on the following:
Florence Stockade Trail and Memorial Park/Florence National Cemetery
Site of a major Civil War prison camp, the Florence Stockade Trail and Memorial Park is adjacent to Florence National Cemetery, which began as a cemetery for Northern prisoners-of-war who died at Florence Stockade. The National Cemetery's original facility contains the graves of more than 2,800 Northern soldiers, and the nearby Florence Stockade Trail and Memorial Park provides historic displays and a walking path through the site of the Civil War prison.

Concern about prison conditions by local civilians prompted the exchange of the most seriously ill and injured prisoners, and large-scale transfers and exchanges emptied the prison in January of 1865, just five months after its construction. By then, however, more than 2,800 Federal troops had perished. They were buried nearby in mass graves in what became the Florence National Cemetery.

Daniel married Cynthia Sophila Straw, daughter of William Straw and Hannah Cheney, on 28 Feb 1857 in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusettes. (Cynthia Sophila Straw was born on 15 Sep 1838 in Georgetown, Essex County, Massachusetts, died on 14 Apr 1895 in Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Medford, Massachusetts.)

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