Thanks to all of you who entered the discussion on Civil War burials. As several of you have pointed out, many of the Civil War prison camps have web sites with names and death dates of those who are buried there. In the searching I've done, trying to find death and burial information on the men who were in Company B, 24th Regiment Texas Cavalry, I have discovered that the prison cemetery death and burial record OFTEN has the wrong information. I went through the microfilmed service records for all of the men in Company B, over a hundred men, and I have found that the information on the mortuary certificates often (perhaps usually) disagrees with the cemetery burial record in some significant way. The errors include state and regiment and company, initials, death date, etc. There is an agency that is attempting to correct all of these records, but it will be years before it is done; they are asking that people send in reports of erroneous information. The lesson to be learned is, IF YOU FIND ONE OF YOUR MEN LISTED IN A UNION PRISON BURIAL RECORD, take it with a grain of salt! You should order the man's military service record and compare the information in it to the burial record of the prison cemetery. What I have found is that the Confederate records are really skimpy compared with the Federal records. If a soldier died while he was a prisoner at a Federal prison, there will usually be a mortuary certificate and other identifying information in the files, such as description and birth place and place of residence. If he died of disease along the trail or in battle, you may as well forget finding more than his death date, if that. There are volunteer organizations organized for the purpose of filling in the gaps. If you had anyone who died of illness while stationed at the Confederate encampment, Camp Holmes, near Pine Bluff, Arkansas, there is an organization which is attempting to gather the names of those men. They have made provisions for memorial markers at the cemetery there. They have a web site and a contact person. One of my Cavalrymen did die during the month that my men were camped there. Jack, thanks for your suggestion. I think we have that part of it (someone to receive the stone) figured out now. I'm going to add this tidbit, just as a matter of interest. In going back into my old files, I have found Great-Uncle Dave Barrett's records. The War Department had NO record of his service. But, he proved his service to the satisfaction of State of Texas pension officials, and he was allowed a pension. The catch was that, being quite young, he did not enter service until January 1865; and the service was in Company G, 7th Texas Cavalry. This was the same regiment and company that his older brother, Steven Barrett, was a member of. And many of you will recall that Janet has had great difficulty in finding out anything about Steven's service; there is only one muster roll for Steven, and no death record, although the family Bible states that he died in service. One way or the other, we will have a marker for him by this fall, I am sure. Karen On Friday, April 9, 2004, at 08:11 PM, BARRETT-REUBEN-SC-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > In the little bit of research I have done, it looks like my ancestor, > William Grant Barrett, had some brothers who died as prisoners of war > at > Camp Chase Ohio.