Bios: Frank A. Gue, Longest Civil War Prison Record: Fayette Co 

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Newspaper article found in the scrapbook of Mary Jane King McIntire (1836-1914);
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Former Perryopolis (cut off)
              Longest Civil War Prison Record

       Frank A. Gue, formerly of *Perryopolis, who now lives in Tecumseh, Neb., claims to
 have been confined longer in Southern prisons during the Civil War than any other man now living.
       For 526 days in one period, Gue suffered starvation, privation, exposure and disease, 
but still lives to tell the tale.  He was stricken with smallpox, black scurvy, and chronic diarrhoea(sic)
 and lay sick for days with scarcely any attention.  Six months of his imprisonment was in Andersonville
 and six weeks of that time in hot weather, an average of 152 dead bodies were carried out every day.
       The Pension Office and Bureau of Information in Washington have been unable to find anyone 
to match Gue's record.
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*Perryopolis, Fayette Co., PA