Mark, My ancestor (Great-Grandfather) Robert Garner also was left out of the Andersonville POW Database. I knew from having his Civil War Pension records that he was a prisoner there, and knew his unit that he was assigned to when captured (also in Tenn.). He was assigned to Company C, 3rd Illinois Volunteer Calvary when captured. I visited the Andersonville Site this last February and purchased the Andersonville CD-ROM with the database on it. He was not listed. I contacted the National Park Service with my question as to why he was not listed, proffered my hypothesis that the ROBERT GANER from the same unit and dates that my ROBERT GARNER had been held prisoner and sent them copies of my documents showing his status as a prisoner in Andersonville and they compared it to the Report of the Adjutant General from the State of Illinois (I am lucky, Illinois has an excellent record system on their veterans) and the record has been corrected. I also notified the publisher of the CD-ROM of the error and they are making the necessary corrections to the database that they offer. Sooo, my question is, Do you have any pension records on your ancestor that shows that he was a POW at Andersonville? If so, then correction of the database should be easily done. Good luck. -- John & Carol Kirkpatrick jpkirkpatrick@geocities.com http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/1860 ============================================= ANDERSONVILLE-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > ANDERSONVILLE-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 64 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Ohio 45th at Andersonville ["Mark Schilling" <schill@gol.com>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from ANDERSONVILLE-D, send a message to > > ANDERSONVILLE-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Ohio 45th at Andersonville > Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 12:56:42 +0900 > From: "Mark Schilling" <schill@gol.com> > To: ANDERSONVILLE-L@rootsweb.com > > 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