Thank you, I found this online http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/15infidx.html it's pretty good, I found out thar Byron's father Wm enlisted also. Take care Kathy list "mom' for Blinn-L, Brauch-L, Clapper, Figiel-L, Germans-IN-HuntingtonCo-L, Germans-to-Phila-L, Germans-OH-Starkco-L, Hamby-L, Hofmann-L, Holsinger-L, Huther-L, Laughran-L, Loose-L, Paszotta-L, Riley-L, Rupsis-L, Schumacher-L, Sibel-L, Troop-L, Vollmer-L, Wedler-L, Wherity-L homepage http://community.webtv.net/kathy556/DoughertyGordonBaer http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/a/m/Kathryn-R-Hamby-PA/index.html >From: "Jim Gilmer" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] COMPANY G 15TH (NORTHWEST) ARKANSAS INFANTRY >BYROND HAMBY >Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:44:18 -0500 (Central Daylight Time) > > Kathryn, > > > >Didn't find any more than you have an Ancestry. > > > >On-line records of those confederate prisoners who died at Alton do not >list >Byron Hamby. > > > >http://www.altonweb.com/history/civilwar/confed/index.html#search > > > >You might consider sending for his compliled military service record from >the National Archives, and also have a search done at the Arkansas Dept of >Archives and History, as there may be info there on confederate soldiers. > > > >http://www.ark-ives.com/selected_materials/default.asp#mil > > > >http://www.archives.gov/research/order/#nprc > > > > > >Jim Gilmer > > > >-------Original Message------- > > > >From: Michael Ruddy > >Date: 08/31/2006 06:29:08 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] COMPANY G 15TH (NORTHWEST) ARKANSAS INFANTRY > > > >Kathryn > >Military prisons during the war were not a healthy place to be. There > >Was a Pvt. Wincenton Hamby from "Company C, Bells Arkansas" (This may be > >The name of the troop) who died there of dysentery after 8 months. As to > >A pension for your soldier, that would have to be searched in the > >Arkansas state archives as he was a confederate soldier. > >Mike > > > >Kathryn Gordon Hamby wrote: > > > HAMBY, BYRON D. Sgt - Enl 31 Oct 1861 at Bentonville, AR Captured 1 May >1863 > > > at Port Gibson, MS and sent to MP at Alton, IL 18 May 1863. Issued >clothing > > > 7 Jul 1863. > > > I cannot find anything of him after 7 Jul 1863 when they issued him the > > > clothes, I can't find him in any census or anything about him getting a > > > pension. > > > I found this info at http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/15infcog.html > > > Can anyone help me please? > > > Thank you > > > Kathy > > > > > >------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message