The captured from Ream’s Station and the Howlett Line march to prison in Richmond
Solomon Crist and the Army of the Potomac Second Corps prisoners from the Battle of Ream's Station
The Battle of Ream’s Station ended after dark on the evening of August 25th, 1864. The nearly two thousand Union prisoners captured in the battle were kept in a field near the battlefield behind Confederate lines that night. The next morning, they began the march to prison in Richmond. Coming from the Howlett line, Private Solomon Crist also marched to Richmond.
Baumgarten, J, and John Henry Bufford. Richmond, Petersburg, and vicinity Genl. Grant's campaign war map. [Boston, Mass.: J.H. Bufford, 1864] Map.