While still trying to puzzle out the absence of my ancestor, William Rea, from the National Park Service database, I have been doing some research that may be of more general interest to the list. According to the NPS database, there were 88 prisoners from my ancestor's regiment, the Ohio 45th Infantry, at Andersonville. I was unable to find individual records for four. Most of these men were captured in two engagements -- at Philadephia, Tennessee on Octoberr 20, 1863 and at Holston River, Tennessee on November 15, 1863. Three were captured at Knoxville, Tennessee on November 18, 1863 -- the same place and date as my ancestor. The last two were captured at Bean Station, Tennessee on December 15, 1863. In other words, most, if not all, of these 88 men were among the first to arrive at Andersonville, beginning in February 1984. Of this number, 68 are buried at Andersonville and only 17, or one in five, are listed among the survivors, though how many made it home alive, the database does not say. I also turned up two William Rays -- nos. 58397 and 44255 -- both listed as privates with Company B of the Massachusetts 23rd Infantry and both Andersonville survivors. No. 58397 is given as "possible prisoner 44255." An alternative spelling of my ancestor's name is "Ray," so No. 58397 may be him -- or may not be! The search continues. Mark Schilling