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 > ______________________________