Henry S. White (1852)

Born in North Hosick, NY in 1828, after graduating from the Biblical Institute, he served churches in the Providence Conference for eleven years.  In January, 1863, he was appointed chaplain of the Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, serving in North Carolina.  While visiting an outpost of Union soldiers to distribute tracts and letters, he was captured and taken as a prisoner of war.  After his release, he wrote a series of letters detailing his experiences as a prisoner, including a stay at Andersonville, Georgia, and the nearby officer’s prison at Macon.

Sources:

• Burlingame, John K. History of the Fifth Regiment of Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, During Three Years and a Half of Service in North Carolina. January 1862-June 1865. Providence: Snow & Farnham, 1892.
• Cary, Seth C. A Catalogue of the Alpha Chapter Boston University: Graduates of the School of Theology, 1850-1905. Boston: Published by the Biographical Secretary, 1906.
• White, Henry S., and Edward Drewry Jervey, ed. Prison Life Among the Rebels: Recollections of a Union Chaplain. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1990.