> I have a friend who has written a book on Cedar Creek. Do you have any > information from you relative -- diaries, journals, etc that describe what > happened there? Dick Smith > > Subject: William Henry Pierson/Pearson > Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 08:21:23 -0400 > From: "Thomas F. Shultz & Merry Anne Pierson" <tfsengnr@worldnet.att.net> > To: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com > > My great uncle William Henry Pierson/Pearson was captured at Cedar Creek > and eventually ended up in Andersonville prison. I am new to this list > and don't know if its appropriate to ask questions yet. So if I'm out of > line asking, just let me know. > > William Henry was denied a pension because the war department stated > that he had signed up from Andersonville with the rebel army to get out > of jail. Several depositions in his pension file state that he was never > out of sight of his comrades and commanding officers who were also > captured. But the government continued to deny his pension and he died a > pauper in 1905. Is there information available about persons who were > captives that might help clear up this question? > > Merry Anne Pierson > tfsengnr@worldnet.att.net

We have to remember that near the end of the war, the South was running out of soldiers because the parole of prisoners had been stopped by the North. They were using every man they could find, the elderly, the very young, and prisoners. Judy Clark-Wick JWick@compuserve.com Researching the Descendants of: John & Rebecca Clark of Rockbridge Co.VA c.1779-1831 1.Robert Clark & Phebe Beach of Rockbridge Co.VA c.1779-1836 2.Samuel Clark and Ann Reynolds of Rockbridge Co.VA & Greene Co.OH c.1809-1876 3.John M. Clark and Jennie Emma Howard of Greene Co., Rockbridge, IL c.1844-1905

Just a thought. Maybe that was another way the south got even with the Union soldiers. Hmmmm. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas F. Shultz & Merry Anne Pierson [SMTP:tfsengnr@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 8:21 AM To: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: William Henry Pierson/Pearson My great uncle William Henry Pierson/Pearson was captured at Cedar Creek and eventually ended up in Andersonville prison. I am new to this list and don't know if its appropriate to ask questions yet. So if I'm out of line asking, just let me know. William Henry was denied a pension because the war department stated that he had signed up from Andersonville with the rebel army to get out of jail. Several depositions in his pension file state that he was never out of sight of his comrades and commanding officers who were also captured. But the government continued to deny his pension and he died a pauper in 1905. Is there information available about persons who were captives that might help clear up this question? Merry Anne Pierson tfsengnr@worldnet.att.net

According to Andersonville records, my gg uncle Thomas N. Way joined the CCS to escape from Andersonville, but a 19-page pamphlet he wrote tells a different story about how he escaped. He later died at the Battle of the Little Big Horn; and although his wife and father applied for his pension, nothing in the records, according to my aunt, indicates that the pension was ever awarded. May have been for the same reason? -----Original Message----- From: Thomas F. Shultz & Merry Anne Pierson [SMTP:tfsengnr@worldnet.att.net] Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 8:21 AM To: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: William Henry Pierson/Pearson My great uncle William Henry Pierson/Pearson was captured at Cedar Creek and eventually ended up in Andersonville prison. I am new to this list and don't know if its appropriate to ask questions yet. So if I'm out of line asking, just let me know. William Henry was denied a pension because the war department stated that he had signed up from Andersonville with the rebel army to get out of jail. Several depositions in his pension file state that he was never out of sight of his comrades and commanding officers who were also captured. But the government continued to deny his pension and he died a pauper in 1905. Is there information available about persons who were captives that might help clear up this question? Merry Anne Pierson tfsengnr@worldnet.att.net

My great uncle William Henry Pierson/Pearson was captured at Cedar Creek and eventually ended up in Andersonville prison. I am new to this list and don't know if its appropriate to ask questions yet. So if I'm out of line asking, just let me know. William Henry was denied a pension because the war department stated that he had signed up from Andersonville with the rebel army to get out of jail. Several depositions in his pension file state that he was never out of sight of his comrades and commanding officers who were also captured. But the government continued to deny his pension and he died a pauper in 1905. Is there information available about persons who were captives that might help clear up this question? Merry Anne Pierson tfsengnr@worldnet.att.net

Please remove my address from the Andersonville group.

please remove my name fron the list thank you geny5@aol.com

MY GREAT UNCLE,GEORGE HEDGES WAS A SGT.IN THE 9th OHIO CAVALRY CAPTURED 17 JULY 1864 NEAR THE TALLAPOOSA RIVER IN DADESVILLE ALABAMA.HE WAS INTERNED IN ANDERSONVILLE.WAS RELEASED FROM ANDERSONVILLE AND TAKEN TO VICKSBURG,MS AND THEN TO MEPHIS,TN WHERE HE BOARDED THE SULTANA,WHICH EXPLODED AND HE SURVIVED THE EXPLOSION AND WAS DISCHARGED AT CAMP CHASE IN OHIO IN MAY OF 1865 SUFFERING FROM A BAD CASE OF SCURV. JACK HEDGES

Hello Jack, Acknowledging your letter about Andersonville and Sultana. What a tragedy! I hope you uncle lived to be a very old man, and this story his life has been handed down to his descending relatives. I have read several books about Andersonville. I believe "Andersonville" was one of the best movies ever made. At the end, I believe they should have told that some of the men survived Andersonville and were later involved in the disasterious Sultana. Thanks for sharing this story with us. Mara

Hello, Phil.... Just for curiosity's sake, what are the names, etc. of the other men in your Great-grandfather's diary? The info might help quite a few of us on the list..... Thank you, Kathryn Quint

In a message dated 4/4/99 8:39:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ANDERSONVILLE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: << Frye@gnat.net >> Kevin, I just recently subscribed to this list. My GGrandfather was a prisoner at Andersonville following his capture at Drury's Bluff, VA on May 16, 1864. I just inherited his diary from that time period, and it is an invaluable personal treasure. There are several entries prior to arriving at Andersonville, and few after. It is almost like some of the pages may have disappeared for some reason, before our obtaining the diary. He did record several prisoners' names and their regiments, and some, their death dates. There are several top quality sketches in the diary showing the sutler's store, the infirmary, and the hanging of the regulators. I just purchased a copy of a book about another soldier from his regiment who died at Andersonville. That book is "One Battle Too Many" by Richard P. Galloway, and is about his GGUncle, Simon Bolivar Hulbert. Pvt. Hulbert's name was in my GGr-father's diary. My GGrandfather was Cpl. Philip W. Morgan of Co. I, 100th NYSV. Would there be any information on him at the park? He did survive, but suffered the rest of his life for the conditions he endured, as did countless others. I'd be greatful on any information you could provide. Phil Brown <PBrown2438@aol.com>

--WebTV-Mail-1165153124-13793 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sue, you come in loud and clear. I would love to read the written pamphlet by Thomas M. Way. He was captured at Chichamauga GA on 9/19/1863. He jioin the C. S. A. 1/23/1865. Yes, he was a prisoner at Andersonvile for eighteen months. I thnk he took an easy way out. His fellow Union friends were dying. He had no choice. It was mainly to survive.Wheather he was lying or telling the truth. It's dones't make any different. My William Garton died at Andersonville on Oct. 10 1864.Did he have a choice? I do not know. Jim James R. Searight 1059 W. Highland Ave. Elgin, Il. 60123 --WebTV-Mail-1165153124-13793 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-104.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.94) by postoffice-162.iap.bryant.webtv.net; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 11:45:26 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <sue.peterson@mindspring.com> Received: from smtp5.mindspring.com (smtp5.mindspring.com [207.69.200.82]) by mailsorter-104.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with ESMTP id LAA05470; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 11:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hl5y0 (pool-209-138-15-194.ipls.grid.net [209.138.15.194]) by smtp5.mindspring.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA08920; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:44:59 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: <sue.peterson@mindspring.com> From: "Sue Peterson" <sue.peterson@mindspring.com> To: "'James Searight'" <JRSEARIGHT@webtv.net> Cc: <ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com> Subject: RE: Record look-ups Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:48:38 -0400 Message-ID: <002101be7eaa$425ec600$c20f8ad1@hl5y0> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <1211-37077501-2552@mailtod-162.iap.bryant.webtv.net> Yes, I have that information, which indicates he joined the CSA, but his written pamphlet tells a different story. I also have his muster records, which indicate he was mustered out of the service by the North. The entire title of his pamphlet is: In the Jaws of Death, or Eighteen Months a Prisoner of War in Southern Prisons, Giving a synopsis of the Treatment of Prisoners of War during the Rebellion, by the Rebel Authorities in Andersonville, Belle Island, Liby and other Prisons, together with attempts to escape and how they were accomplished. by Thomas N. Way, Formerly a Member of the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. SALEM, OHIO: JOURNAL STREAM PRINT, 1872 A sad story in the book about a boy from Alabama who was in an infirmary with Thomas. When the doctor came in and asked were he was from and found out he was a southern boy fighting on the northern side, the doctor told him he'd kill him in 3 days. The next day the poor boy was dead. It's interesting reading. Sue -----Original Message----- From: James Searight [SMTP:JRSEARIGHT@webtv.net] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 10:20 AM To: sue.peterson@mindspring.com Cc: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: Record look-ups Sue, there are two rcords of Thomas M. Way at Andersonville.Code No.: 61615 and CodeNo, 43467. Under remarks " More Information D 43467". Did you write to them on this ? More information is available at National Park Service Andersonville National Historic Site Route 1, Box 800 Andersonville, GA 31711 James R. Searight 1059 W. Highland Ave. Elgin, Il. 60123 << Message: RE: Record look-ups (2.77 KB) >> --WebTV-Mail-1165153124-13793--

It seems apparent to me that neither the records or Way were lying. Joining the Confeds was his "escape" - and a darned good one it was. I would have done the same thing!

Yes, I have that information, which indicates he joined the CSA, but his written pamphlet tells a different story. I also have his muster records, which indicate he was mustered out of the service by the North. The entire title of his pamphlet is: In the Jaws of Death, or Eighteen Months a Prisoner of War in Southern Prisons, Giving a synopsis of the Treatment of Prisoners of War during the Rebellion, by the Rebel Authorities in Andersonville, Belle Island, Liby and other Prisons, together with attempts to escape and how they were accomplished. by Thomas N. Way, Formerly a Member of the 1st Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry. SALEM, OHIO: JOURNAL STREAM PRINT, 1872 A sad story in the book about a boy from Alabama who was in an infirmary with Thomas. When the doctor came in and asked were he was from and found out he was a southern boy fighting on the northern side, the doctor told him he'd kill him in 3 days. The next day the poor boy was dead. It's interesting reading. Sue -----Original Message----- From: James Searight [SMTP:JRSEARIGHT@webtv.net] Sent: Sunday, April 04, 1999 10:20 AM To: sue.peterson@mindspring.com Cc: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: Record look-ups Sue, there are two rcords of Thomas M. Way at Andersonville.Code No.: 61615 and CodeNo, 43467. Under remarks " More Information D 43467". Did you write to them on this ? More information is available at National Park Service Andersonville National Historic Site Route 1, Box 800 Andersonville, GA 31711 James R. Searight 1059 W. Highland Ave. Elgin, Il. 60123 << Message: RE: Record look-ups (2.77 KB) >>

--WebTV-Mail-1681801790-1485 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Sue, there are two rcords of Thomas M. Way at Andersonville.Code No.: 61615 and CodeNo, 43467. Under remarks " More Information D 43467". Did you write to them on this ? More information is available at National Park Service Andersonville National Historic Site Route 1, Box 800 Andersonville, GA 31711 James R. Searight 1059 W. Highland Ave. Elgin, Il. 60123 --WebTV-Mail-1681801790-1485 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-102-1.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.98) by postoffice-161.iap.bryant.webtv.net; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 05:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: <ANDERSONVILLE-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com (bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27]) by mailsorter-102-1.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with ESMTP id FAA23123; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 05:03:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id EAA01129; Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 04:54:17 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: <sue.peterson@mindspring.com> From: "Sue Peterson" <sue.peterson@mindspring.com> Old-To: "'FRYE FAMILY'" <frye@gnat.net>, "Rootsweb Andersonville (E-mail)" <ANDERSONVILLE-D@rootsweb.com> Subject: RE: Record look-ups Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 07:56:26 -0400 Message-ID: <001701be7e93$2f8e4da0$c20f8ad1@hl5y0> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <01be7e1b$5514dd00$6562060c@frye> Resent-Message-ID: <"bNPG9D.A.YR.pL1B3"@bl-11.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/393 X-Loop: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com To: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Errors-To: ANDERSONVILLE-L-request@rootsweb.com Resent-Sender: ANDERSONVILLE-L-request@rootsweb.com Hi Kevin, I have an ancestor who was at Andersonville, but he was one of the fortunate ones to have escaped: Thomas N. Way (he is listed as Thomas M. Way in Andersonville's records). Anyho, he wrote a pamphlet about his stay at Andersonville titled "In the Jaws of Death or Eighteen Months a Prisoner of War in Southern Prisons." I was wondering, does Andersonville have a book store with possible reprints? I copied the pamphlet while at the Ohio Historical Society on Friday, but I would be interesting in obtaining a printed version. If you could check, I'd appreciated it. Now for his history, according to Andersonville records, Thomas M. Way joined the south to get out of the prison, but in the pamphlet, Thomas does not say anything about this ... he talks about an escape. Regardless, by the end of the war he is back on the northern side. I'm wondering, did the south fudge there records so they wouldn't have to admit to the higher ups that they had prisoners who escaped? Or was my gg uncle Thomas writing his own story so he wouldn't have to admit to the folks up north that he joined the south to get away from Andersonville? Another tidbit of information for the history buffs, poor Thomas had no luck. A trumpeter, he joined up with General George Custer and, well, the rest is history. Sue -----Original Message----- From: FRYE FAMILY [SMTP:frye@gnat.net] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 1999 4:46 PM To: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Fw: Record look-ups - >Hi researchers, > Things are kinda slow and I would like to repost my offer to those of >you who are new to the list. I live about 40 miles from Andersonville and do >look-ups on their on site database as well as a CD I have purchased. I will >do these look-ups at no charge as well as get what info I can for all those >who ask. I also will take photos of the site as well as graves of your >ancesters. If they died there and their names are on file, ( 13000 buried >there and only 460 unknown ), I can find their graves. Please let me know as >Im going this weekend to take pics.. > >Kevin Frye@gnat.net >Butler Georgia > ______________________________ --WebTV-Mail-1681801790-1485--

Hi Kevin, I have an ancestor who was at Andersonville, but he was one of the fortunate ones to have escaped: Thomas N. Way (he is listed as Thomas M. Way in Andersonville's records). Anyho, he wrote a pamphlet about his stay at Andersonville titled "In the Jaws of Death or Eighteen Months a Prisoner of War in Southern Prisons." I was wondering, does Andersonville have a book store with possible reprints? I copied the pamphlet while at the Ohio Historical Society on Friday, but I would be interesting in obtaining a printed version. If you could check, I'd appreciated it. Now for his history, according to Andersonville records, Thomas M. Way joined the south to get out of the prison, but in the pamphlet, Thomas does not say anything about this ... he talks about an escape. Regardless, by the end of the war he is back on the northern side. I'm wondering, did the south fudge there records so they wouldn't have to admit to the higher ups that they had prisoners who escaped? Or was my gg uncle Thomas writing his own story so he wouldn't have to admit to the folks up north that he joined the south to get away from Andersonville? Another tidbit of information for the history buffs, poor Thomas had no luck. A trumpeter, he joined up with General George Custer and, well, the rest is history. Sue -----Original Message----- From: FRYE FAMILY [SMTP:frye@gnat.net] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 1999 4:46 PM To: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Fw: Record look-ups - >Hi researchers, > Things are kinda slow and I would like to repost my offer to those of >you who are new to the list. I live about 40 miles from Andersonville and do >look-ups on their on site database as well as a CD I have purchased. I will >do these look-ups at no charge as well as get what info I can for all those >who ask. I also will take photos of the site as well as graves of your >ancesters. If they died there and their names are on file, ( 13000 buried >there and only 460 unknown ), I can find their graves. Please let me know as >Im going this weekend to take pics.. > >Kevin Frye@gnat.net >Butler Georgia > ______________________________

- >Hi researchers, > Things are kinda slow and I would like to repost my offer to those of >you who are new to the list. I live about 40 miles from Andersonville and do >look-ups on their on site database as well as a CD I have purchased. I will >do these look-ups at no charge as well as get what info I can for all those >who ask. I also will take photos of the site as well as graves of your >ancesters. If they died there and their names are on file, ( 13000 buried >there and only 460 unknown ), I can find their graves. Please let me know as >Im going this weekend to take pics.. > >Kevin Frye@gnat.net >Butler Georgia >

Hello, I am writing in the hope of finding out how to verify that my ggrandfather Darwin OLNEY was a prisoner at Andersonville. He enlisted in the Union Army as a private in Michigan, on 19 Aug 1861 for a period of three years. He was detailed in the Quartermaster Department (Regimental Commissary). At the end of 1863 he was "discharged by virtue of re-enlistment" at Stevensburg, VA. On the company muster roll for Sep 1864 he is listed as "absent" with the remark "taken by Moseby 9 Sep 1864". In one entry in the Regimental Descriptive book he was described as "taken prisoner near Charlestown by Moseby October 8, 1864 and died at Andersonville, Ga." Another entry reports him as a "prisoner of war 8 Sep 1864 Bipen, Va; 1865 loss formally reported: prisoner of war." A memorandum from Prisoner of war records stated "captured at Smithfield, Va September, 29 Aug 1864confined at Richmond, Va., 20 Sep 1864 sent to Danville, Va ." A memorandum from the Adjutant General's office dated 14 Dec 1867 states "taken prisoner by Moseby 9 Sep 1864, dropped from all susequent rolls on file. No evidence of death on file." However his wife's application for pension contains an eyewitness account of his death on 15 Feb 1865 at Salisbury Prison, NC. I believe he was among those transferred there when Andersonville was closed. Sadly he died less than two weeks before he would have been released. I would appreciate any help you could give me in verifying that Darwin was indeed a prisoner at Andersonville. Thanks in advance for your help. Irene at skiandfox@aol.com

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