My husbands great grandfather was in Merrill's Horse Unit. He always claimed that he participated in the march and was captured and was in Andersonville prison. A relative went to Andersonville and did not find him listed as a prisoner. I have accessed their online site and also did not find any mention of his name. I also found some of his records, where I guess it was records for your pay period, and I saw nothing about his being imprisoned. He was sick once with the measles or mumps, but that was about it. I have also read some of the information about Merrill's Horse Unit and found nothing to indicate that unit participated in the march. My guess is that it just made a good story for him to tell. And no one around to disprove it. Nadine

Nadine, In the late summer / fall of 1864, Sherman had a General whos mission was to distroy the rail lines coming out of Macon Georgia. His name was Stoneman and he asked Sherman for permission,,,while he was there...to liberate those officers held in the Macon POW stockade ( Camp Oglethorpe.) Stoneman also asked for permission to continue here to Andersonville and liberate the more than 33000 soldiers held here. Sherman gave permission to liberate those in Macon but NOT to go onto Andersonville as this would deplete the resources needed to cut Georgia in two,,,,shortening the war,,,and the freedom of those here at Andersonville would follow. Stoneman did head for Macon but was indeed confronted in battle and was severly whipped. He was captured along with several hundred soldiers of which many did end up here at Andersonville. May I ask the name of the soldier that your looking for and any other info you have such as state/Reg/Co. The reason I ask is that I have a copy of the National Park database here at Andersonville which has several thousand names of those held here that the online databases do not have. The online sites are supplied the information from here at the Andersonville archives, however, their updates come many many months after getting the information as they do not put it to any priority. Ill be happy to do any research and lookups for anyone who suspects,,or knows they had ancestors held here. The database I have has more than 41000 prisoners listed. Kevin The sound of FREEDOM is something you will never hear.......until its gone. ( UNKNOWN ) Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned and died in captivity while in the service to our country Kevin Frye Local Andersonville Historian / National Park Service Volunteer http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: <TSNI843@aol.com> To: <CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 2:27 PM Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] Re: Shermans March > My husbands great grandfather was in Merrill's Horse Unit. He always claimed > that he participated in the march and was captured and was in Andersonville > prison. A relative went to Andersonville and did not find him listed as a > prisoner. I have accessed their online site and also did not find any mention of > his name. I also found some of his records, where I guess it was records for > your pay period, and I saw nothing about his being imprisoned. He was sick > once with the measles or mumps, but that was about it. I have also read some of > the information about Merrill's Horse Unit and found nothing to indicate that > unit participated in the march. My guess is that it just made a good story > for him to tell. And no one around to disprove it. > > Nadine > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from list mode, email CIVIL-WAR-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > and in the text area of the message, type only the word > unsubscribe >