Prisons/Prisoners

Andersonville Depositions

I William Tevyaw of Enosburgh in the County of

Franklin and the State of Vermont now a Soldier in the

Service of the United States in Company A 5th Regiment

V.t. Volunteers - of lawful age, and under oath,

testify and say that I was well acquainted with Hiram

Laraway who was a Soldier in Co. A 5th Regt. from and

for the town of Berkshire in Said County of Franklin –

that said Laraway died at Andersonville in the

Confederate State's prison Camp – in the State of

Georgia – in the Early part of July AD 1864 (I cannot

remember exactly on what day of said month – but now

think is was on the 10th) I was with said Laraway when

he died; and assisted in carrying his remains to the

gate of the aforesaid prison camp, being myself a

prisoner at the time and place aforesaid

		William Tevyaw (signed)



(This deposition was taken 12 January 1865 in

Enosburgh by Geo. C. Ellsworth, Justice of the Peace.)

Source: Pension application papers; Mary, widow of Hiram Laraway, Berkshire, Co. A, 5th Vermont Infantry, taken prisoner May 10, 1864, died at Andersonville, August 3, 1864; courtesy of Erica Jacobson.