Camp Chase is located in Columbus, Ohio on Sullivant Avenue (West Columbus). It was originally a training camp and then later in the War became a POW camp. There is a cemetery there of about 2,000 confederate graves. The Daughters of the Confederacy used to have an annual memorial service there and whether or not they still do I don't know. Hope this helps! Gene Roller Camp Chase was a Union camp used for training Yankees and a location for Yankees to serve out their parole before being able to return to their units. It was also a Confederate POW camp/prison. The first prisoners were Virginians captured in 1862. Ohio has three chapters (UDC). The Dixie Chapter, located in Columbus has given up having or participating in a memorial service there. Our chapter, LaSalle Corbell Pickett, 2070 of Akron, is taking over that job. We will probably have our first service there early next summer or late spring. We hope to have it in conjunction with the SCV. We also take part in a service on Johnson's Island, POW camp and cemetery, on/about Confederate Memorial Day. This coming year it will be on Saturday, April 25th. We will have re-enactors and the Lt. Gen. James Longstreet Camp 1658 conducting the service. We decorate the 206 graves with Battleflags and present a wreath. Generally, the Ohio Division SCV Commander is the main speaker. Back to Camp Chase: there are 2260 Confederate graves in the cemetery. All that is left of Camp Chase is the cemetery, which is now Federally owned and supposedly protected. end of snip<<<<<<<< I hope this helps out Lisa Cook Aiken, SC

JAMES KNOX POLK LYTLE, was born in Bedford County,Tennessee, on Feb 25, 1838. The second son of ABEL LYTLE and MILLY ANN HALE. At the time of this writing Milly Ann is a widow struggling to maintain the family farm in the war ravaged South. Her husband had died in 1841 leaving her with four small boys. She raised those boys to young manhood but by now two of them have died, one suffers some kind of affliction and one is a prisoner of the North. James, as I will henceforth call the author of this piece, joined the Confederate Army at Rover, Bedford County, Tn., on July 13, 1861. He served with the 23rd Tenn Infantry, Co F, until December 14, 1863, when he and his very good friend, P. M. Stegall, were captured near Bean Station, Tn. Although James expected to be returned home as an exchanged prisoner it was not to be. While he was at Ft Delaware 600 officers were selected to be sent to Morris Island and placed under fire of their own Confederate guns. James was one of the ones selected. This resulted in his remaining a prisoner of the North and being confined at various prisons until June 12, 1865, when he took the "oath" and was released to go home. Conditions were grim during his time in prison and the health of the prisoners was generally very bad but James chose to accept his plight and blame no one for his miserable circumstance. He spent his time reading, writing in his diary and writing letters home to his family and friends. The following is a piece written by this thoughtful young man. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Camp Chase, Ohio, March 10th,1864 the Sun arose this Morning from beyond the Eastern horizon Sending forth its gentle Rays against these Barracks, gradually evaporating the dewdrops which Stole Softly near, and hovering around Me while reposing in the precious Slumbers of Night on my quiet Bunk. Now I stand in a few Paces of my Room while Nature Seems to be webing itself around my Heart the refreshing breeze stealing softly by while my ear caught the Lovely Notes of a mocking Bird being the first that I had heard from one of those gay creatures in Several Months the effects were some what impressive though but a bird from a single frown from the master hawk terror would take place of Mirth. though the great value of its freedom the great Sphere above for its flight the immese forest for its home the Lovely orchard decorated with the Sweetest of Natures flowers through which he could hop and Skip from Bough to Bough with all the liberties of freedom beneath a Smiling Sun. and when the Scenes of the day is past he only had to choose the choiceest Bush for his Nights rest quite different with myself the forest is denied me the cheering words and fond Smiles of my Mother are denied me. the Orchyard its beauties Sweet flowers and delicious fruits are denied me my Person is confined in the narrow Limits of this Prison. though the Mind Like the Bird has no limits it During my Slumbers Scales the Parapet takes its flight with Lightning Speed to the Family of its origin where it enjoys friendly welcomes from a noble Mother and with electric Speed flies back and contemplates the greatness of god

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Resource Portals To Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War by Lonnie R. Speer, published by Stackpole Books JOHNSON'S ISLAND 'The POWs confined at Johnson�s Island found the Ohio winter even worse. The prison's population had declined to 72 prisoners toward the end of the exchange cartel, but immediately climbed to more than 2,000 when the cartel collapsed. From then on the average population remained around 2,500 for some time before gradually increasing to over 3,200 the following year. In nearly every prison memoir about Johnson's Island there are complaints about suffering from the cold. The winter of 1862-63 had been unusually mild for the area, but those that followed were unusually intense. " It was just the place to convert visitors to the theological belief of the Norwegians that Hell has torments of cold instead of heat," complained prisoner Henry K. Douglas.10 Each room in the barracks was outfitted with a wood-burning stove. "I was confined in one room with 70 other Confederates," argued one prisoner. "The room was provided with one antiquated stove. Fuel given us was frequently insufficient ... and in our desperation we burned every available chair, box, and even parts of our bunks.... Some of us maintained life by forming a circle and dancing with the energy of despair." December and January of 1863-64 were especially brutal. The temperature stood at twenty-two degrees below zero and remained there for several days. The prisoners suffered intensely from frostbite and several died. "Water froze in our canteens under our heads," exclaimed prisoner R. E Webb, who, along with many others, often used his as a pillow. "I was afraid to walk from one end of the enclosure to the other for fear my blood would congeal and I would freeze to death. " Lake Erie was just a few yards from the other side of the prison gate. In the dead of winter, when the well pumps froze, the guards opened the big, 4eavy gates and fifty prisoners at a time were allowed to the lake's edge to fill their canteens. It soon became a daily routine, with set times of 10 A.M. to noon and 2 to 4 pm., but due to the cold, the ice often had to be broken up each time to get to the water. "I once saw 1500 Federal troops march in perfect security from Sandusky to Johnson's Island across the firmly frozen harbor," recalled prisoner Henry E. Shepherd. It wasn't long before the POWs realized the extreme cold of the region could be used in their favor. "There was but a single hope of escape, and that was by means of the dense ice which enveloped the island during the greater part of winter." When the bay was free of ice, the Michigan, a sloop of war, lay constantly off the island with her guns trained upon the prisoner barracks. During the dead of winter, it was no longer there. The sentry patrol along the shore, likewise, was missing. Winter was the only period Johnson's Island was not secured against escapes. "Repeated efforts were made," recalled Colonel Thomas S. Kenan, Company A, 43rd North Carolina, "but their plans were [usually] discovered by the guards." First Lieutenant J. E Cross, Company B, 5th North Carolina boasted, "I secured a Federal uniform from one of the guards, and made the attempt, but was detected and returned to prison and punished.� "Lieutenants William T. Williamson of Benton, Florida, and J. B. Murphy of Columbia, Tennessee escaped into Canada." Lieutenant Archibald McFadyen, Company A, 63rd North Carolina noted." There were only twelve successful escapes from the island during its existence as a military prison. The first didn�t occur until the prison was nearly two years old, on the last day of December 1863. It became one of the most daring, and involved Lieutenant Colonel John R. Winston of the 45th North Carolina Regiment and two others. "They had been engaged for some time," reported Kenan, "in making preparations for escape in securing additional clothing, ladders, etc." On the intensely cold night of 31 December, 1863, when the thermometer was several degrees below zero and the sentinels on the walls were in consequence forced to remain in their boxes for protection, they saw their opportunity and took advantage of it. "They scaled the wall without being seen by the guards, and walked on the ice to the opposite shore."" The three made their way toward Canada on New Year's Day in the frigid, near-record, cold. Winston was the only one to succeed. "The others," continued Kenan, "were recaptured, with hands and feet frozen. The cold winter of the region also brought a special form of recreation to the prisoners of Johnson's Island. With the abundance of snow, the prisoners often engaged in great snowball battles. "They divided themselves into two teams, declared Captain Decimus U. Barziza, 4th Texas Infantry, "and further separated into companies and battalions." In one particular skirmish, prisoner Isaac Trimble, a major general who lost a leg in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, commanded his "army" against the at " of prisoner M. Jeff Thompson, the "Swamp Fox of the Confederacy." The pitched battle carried on for three or four hours until the participants' hands became numb.

Camp Chase Ohio, used 1861 to 1865, Maximum Capacity 4,000, Most held 9,423, escapes 57, deaths 2, 260. Resource Portals To Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War by Lonnie R. Speer, published by Stackpole Books CAMP CHASE Out west, Camp Chase, named in honor of Salmon P. Chase, a prominent former abolitionist, then-current treasury secretary under President Lincoln, and governor of Ohio, became a holding facility for political prisoners of Ohio, Kentucky, and Western Virginia as early as August 7, 186 1. By all appearances, anyone from these border states who even mentioned the word "secession' became a prime candidate for confinement. "There have been from six to seven hundred political prisoners at Camp Chase at a time," marvelled one prisoner. "There are unquestionably," noted Captain Henry M. Lazelle, 8th Infantry, U.S. Army, "a large number of prisoners amounting to perhaps 200 confined here whose cases I think are of unjust confinement ... It; here are among the prisoners two idiots, two insane and several so maimed as to be utterly harmless in any community." The camp, originally a training site for Ohio troops, was situated four miles west of Columbus on an extension of Broad Street. From its beginning as a prison facility, it was a source of irritation between the state and Federal governments. There was little doubt who had authority over the facility when it held political prisoners from Ohio, but once Federal authorities brought in those from other states and then started moving prisoners of war to the site the following year, control over the camp became a constant issue. CAMP CHASE was just over a hundred miles south of Johnson's Island, Camp Chase received its first contingent of POWs during the second week of April 1862, complicating the issue of who was to assume control of the camp-federal officials or the state of Ohio, which used the facility for political prisoners. Governor Tod, who insisted on signing all his correspondence "Governor and Commander in Chief," made no claim to Johnson�s Island, but continued his fight with Federal authorities for complete control of Camp Chase. Tod named Colonel Granville Moody, a former minister and commander of the 12th Ohio Regiment, prison commandant. Meanwhile, the lax security under the governor's and Moodys command irritated Federal authorities. Captain Henry Lazelle bitterly complained: "Camp Chase is made the place of rendezvous for all furloughed and paroled or disabled soldiers in the State.... [The governor] gives to the commanding officer such orders as he pleases.... He is utterly ignorant of the most common requirements of the Army regulations. ... He regards this as a camp of instruction of the State of Ohio for its recruits.... that he controls the soldiers and you [the Federal government] care for the prisoners together with him.... He paroles prisoners within the limits of the town and he gives instruction to the commanding officer relating to their control and discipline. He grants permits to visit them ... and has no knowledge of the importance of discipline and of the effect upon it of citizens lounging in great numbers about the camp." Captain Lazelle blasted Colonel Moody as well: "The commanding officer of the camp is uncertain and in constant doubt as to whom he should go to for instructions, which together with his ignorance of his duties quite overpowers him." Prisoners at Camp Chase were allowed the privilege of receiving gifts of food and money and purchasing whatever they wanted from the sutler. Upon a simple oath not to escape, Confederate officer prisoners were allowed to wander the streets of Columbus, register to stay in its hotels, and attend sessions of the state senate. At the same time, for a small admission fee, the public was allowed to tour the prison. It became one of the most popular tourist attractions around. "It is pleasing to [Moody]," grumbled Lazelle, "to talk and guide and explain to [the tourists] all curious points of interest." Before long, complaints over tax discipline and the camp's state administrators provoked anger, even among the Ohio residents. N. A. Reed, pastor of the Market Street Baptist Church in Zanesville, Ohio, griped in a letter to President Lincoln dated April 26, 1862, "Having sons in the Third and Thirteenth Ohio Regiments, the matter has become too much ... to be endured.... [to have our sons toll in the Army and be subjected to trials and the most severe deprivations, and then to have these rebel officers actually at their ease in our streets speaking treason openly and boldly is almost too much for human endurance."60 Somewhat sensitive to the complaints, Governor Tod transferred Moody and his regiment to the seat of war and appointed Colonel Charles W B. Allison, prison commandant. Allison, a lawyer and son-in-law to Ohio's lieutenant governor, proved no better, probably because he, too, was unfamiliar with military procedure and remained under Tod's control. "Colonel Allison," howled an exasperated Lazelle, "is not in any degree a soldier, he is entirely without experience and utterly ignorant of his duties." While the state and Federal governments quibbled over control of the prison, the guards took charge. "I knew nothing of prison rules," declared. Coleman Alderson, Company A, 36th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry. "(But) within one hour after entering the prison I was walking within a few feet of the wall, when on hearing a 'click, click I looked up and saw the guard on top of the parapet with his gun leveled at me." Camp Chase prisoners quickly learned that although state administrators were lax, state troops used as sentries were not. "Shots were fired into the barracks at night," Alderson continued, "often without cause.... On one occasion the moon was shining through a back window in barracks No. 2, on the opposite side from the guard who called 'lights out,' and as the moon did not go out, he (shot and) killed two men sleeping together in their cold, narrow bunks. "A fresh prisoner," wrote prisoner George Moffett, "[who was] ignorant of the rule relating to the extinguishment of fires and lights, was turned into the prison one cold morning and, having a match in his pocket, struck it with the intention of kindling a fire in the stove. The sentinel on the parapet, who saw the light through the window, fired immediately and killed the poor fellow. "I fired at the light to shoot it out according to my instructions," insisted John W White, Company D, 15th Regiment Invalid Corps, one of the many guards involved in shooting prisoners at Camp Chase. "I did not leave my post, and never saw the prisoner that was shot." [C] ases have occurred," declared Colonel Hoffman in a letter to the prison commandant, "of the wounding of prisoners at night by the guard when they neither were sent to the hospital nor received medical treatment until the next morning. Such treatment of prisoners, whatever may be the necessity for wounding them, is barbarous and without possible excuse. " Many prisoners died in such cases because even their mess mates were unable to help them. "It was some time before I could get permission from the sentinel to light a candle to dress the wound," noted J. G. Nance, Company I, 10th Kentucky Cavalry, on his attempt to aid a fellow prisoner who had been Shot. There were other complaints that prisoners were often shot when they misunderstood and stepped out of line during roll call, failed to quickly follow demands yelled down to them from the guards on the parapet, or gathered into large groups. Another incident involved an order prohibiting the wasting of water. "One of the unfortunates," declared John H. King, Company H, 40th Georgia Infantry, "not aware of the order, washed out his tin cup at the pump and threw out the water on the ground before filling the cup with water to drink. A guard seeing him throw the water on the ground, at once fired at him and missing his aim severely wounded an unlucky prisoner standing some distance beyond." Various regiments performed sentinel duty at different times at Camp Chase. Those involved in a majority of the shootings belonged to the 12th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry, the 88th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and the 15th Regiment Invalid Corps. By the end of September, Colonel Allison's term of service had expired. Tod quickly replaced him with Major Peter Zinn of the Governor's Guard. 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Camp Chase Ohio, used 1861 to 1865, Maximum Capacity 4,000, Most held 9,423, escapes 57, deaths 2, 260. Resource Portals To Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War by Lonnie R. Speer, published by Stackpole Books I Also have a picture of this Prison CAMP CHASE In Ohio, Camp Chase and Johnson's Island had gone into full operation as POW facilities by early 1863. At Camp Chase, Major Zinn hadn�t served as commandant for long before he was replaced by Brigadier General John S. Mason of the U.S. Volunteers. He, too, was an Ohioan, but he was also a professional military man who had graduated from West Point. With his arrival in April, the Federal government assumed increased control over Camp Chase and was finally able to keep Ohio Governor Tod from asserting state control of the prison. Mason immediately exercised military control over the compound and tightened security. All prisoners were restricted to the camp. By mid- 1 863, Mason transferred all officers and political prisoners to Johnson�s Island. At the same time, tourists and visitors were prohibited and all mail was censored, the quality of food rations was improved with a change in suppliers and closer inspection, and prisoner trade with the sutler was restricted. Camp Chase was an enclosed barracks prison. It consisted of 160 acres divided into three sections by plank walls sixteen feet high. The divided sections were designated Prisons No. 1, No. 2, and No. 3. There were double outside walls, with a sentries parapet along the outside about three feet from the top. Outlooks or guardhouses were located at each corner. Housing and barracks for the Federal officers and guards were located outside the prison walls. In violation of POW regulations, prison labor was often used to rebuild barracks inside the prison or to construct larger or stronger fence sections around the camp.13 Prison No. I enclosed about an acre and could hold approximately 200 prisoners. Prisons No. 2 and No. 3 contained about five acres each and sometimes held as many as 4,000 in each. The original capacity of the camp was estimated at 3,500 to 4,000 but as many as 5,000 to 6,000 were often held there. By January of 1865, the population would reach an all-time high of more than 9,000.14 Prisoners were assigned to quarters in small houses or shanties measuring sixteen-by-twenty feet. "It was without ceiling," noted prisoner John H. King, Company H, 40th Georgia, of one such shanty, "and the floors of green lumber, with cracks between the planks wide enough to let the cold wind freely circulate." Twelve to fifteen POWs occupied each little shed, with double or triple bunks arranged along each wall. At one end of the shanty, a room was partitioned off as a kitchen. A small opening in the partition was just large enough for a plate or cup to be passed through. The living quarters within the three prison sections were generally arranged in clusters of six, with the buildings of each cluster about five feet apart. Narrow streets or pathways separated the clusters. "The spaces between the clusters of quarters are heaped with the vilest accumulations of filth," reported one government inspector. "All the refuse of the prisoners' food, clothing and the general dirt of the camp is gathered here. "86 The streets, drains, and gutters of the camp were in the same condition, and the latrines were nothing more than open excavations. The stench that permeated the air of the camp was described as "horrible, nauseating and disgusting."" The prison grounds were unlevel, soft clayish soil with poor drainage. After a mild rain, stands of deep mud and water would remain for days. Since none of the living quarters were shingled, the roofs leaked. "The buildings are set directly on the ground," complained the inspector, "with the floors in very many instances in contact with it. The drainage is so incomplete that water falling accumulates under the buildings and remains there constantly. "We had never experienced such intensely cold weather," as one prisoner recalled the winters. In December and January the temperatures often went from ten to twenty degrees below zero. "men the chilling winds and the frost and ice of this bleak region came," agreed King, with our bodies wasted by starvation, without fires sufficient to warm our emaciated forms, there came a season of real suffering, of real pain, that ended only in the death of many a helpless victim. � -----Original Message----- From: Alice J. Gayley <agayley@dgsys.com> Date: Saturday, April 18, 1998 11:23 PM Subject: Camp Chase

Some info I have gathered on my hd. josie _The Story of Camp Chase_, by William H. Knauss, 1906, reprinted by Blue and Grey Magazine, $29.95. Contact them at 1-800-CIVIL WAR or 1-800-248-4592 Some book you may can get from Library: CAMP CHASE, OH (1862-65) Barbiere, Joe. Scraps from the Prison Table at Camp Chase and Johnson Island. Doylestown, PA: Davis, 1868. E615B23. Frost, Griffin. Camp and Prison Journal.... Quincy, IL: Quincy Herald, 1867. E615F93, RareBk. King, John H. Three Hundred Days in a Yankee Prison; Reminiscences of War Life, Captivity, Imprisonment at Camp Chase, Ohio. Atlanta: Daves, 1904. E616C4K5. Knauss, William H. The Story of Camp Chase: A History of the Prison and Its Cemetery, Together With Other Cemeteries Where Confederate Prisoners are Buried, Etc. Nashville, TN: Pub of Methodist Episcopal Church, 1906. E616C4K67.

Folks, this message is old but may still work for you. josie "Some time back, someone inquired as to how to get information about Camp Chase and the men buried there. I have finally begun to get my long neglected files into better order and have found my booklet on Camp Chase, complete with a burial roster that includes name, military unit, and grave number. If anyone needs me to do a lookup, I'll be glad to do so. Also, you might want to contact the folks of the Hilltop Historical Society, 2456 West Broad Street, Columbus, OH 43204, (614) 276-0060. They seem to have several publications and organize historical programs fairly regularly." Sandy

Would you look up Wyatt Early Mitchell enlisted in Carroll Co. GA 1861 , wounded at Atlanta, lost an arm and was in Lexington, KY prison? I would greatly appreciate it Nelle

1st AL CAV USA soldiers who died at Andersonville (AL natives who fought for the Union) http://adpservices.com/1st_Ala_Cav/pows.html Sue morgana@ghg.net

Xerxes Knox-served with the 3rd Iowa Cavalry. Was a POW at Camp Ford, TX. This site is a very interesting outline of Xerxes' military history during the war, including information about Camp Ford, and his escape from it. http://www.oz.net/~cyndihow/xerxes.htm Sue morgana@ghg.net

Document indexes relating to POWs at Point Lookout, MD This site has a number of files with the name and sometimes other information about soldiers who were incarcerated at Point Lookout, including things like Sutler's records and various types of correspondence. http://www.clements.umich.edu/Webguides/Schoff/NP/Point.html Sue morgana@ghg.net

Many thanks to those who posted messages about Camp Chase, Ohio. It was very moving for me to learn of the conditions that my ancestor endured as a prisoner there. He was shot in both legs. He lost one of his legs, because as you know amputation was the only method of treatment inorder to save the person's life. He survived, and made it back home to TN. Where he eventually married the woman he loved, and fathered several children.

I have always gotten the entire record when I ordered from the NA ... even officer's records that were over 100 pages each. I reckon over the years I have ordered maybe 50 individual records. I was never charged more than $10 (or less, since the cost went up, for that matter :). For further info on exactly what there records are, how they came to be, and what you get when you order a copy, visit the following: http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Quarters/1864/CSR.htm Geoff Walden Sons of Confederate Veterans Gen. Ben Hardin Helm Camp 1703 -----Original Message----- From: Ray Faircloth <rayfair@lcc.net> To: CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com <CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [CW-POW-L] Research Tidbit >Regarding this, I have heard that NARA Form 80 gets you the 10 copies >from your ancestor's file that the staff member selecting them thinks >are most important, but you do not get the whole file. This way, the >"standard" charge is $10.00. That has been my experience. > >I read that you can write on the form "send all files" and they will do >so at a higher cost. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? > >Ray Faircloth > rayfair@lcc.net > >---------- >> From: Sue <morgana@ghg.net> >> To: CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [CW-POW-L] Research Tidbit >> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 4:57 AM >> >> This is a link to the page at the National Archives that >> describes what records they have for CW era soldiers and how to >> search them. It also includes a link to request a copy of the >> NARA form 80 to send off for your ancestor's records. >> >> If you haven't started chasing down the military records of your >> ancestor yet, check this out and it will help you know what is >> out there. >> >> http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/civilwar.html >> >> Sue >> morgana@ghg.net >> > >

Reading list on Union military prisons (note: this address is so long that you will probably have to manually enter it into your browser, especially if your mail window isn't at maxiumum size. http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/academic/history/marshall/military/mil_hist_inst/p/pow3a.asc Sue morgana@ghg.net

Johnson's Island, near Sandusky OH, was reserved for the officers. Camp Chase was used for the general population of prisoners. Edward G. -----Original Message----- From: FortIII@aol.com <FortIII@aol.com> To: CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com <CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 11:26 AM Subject: [CW-POW-L] Camps Chase and Butler >Dear List Members, >I am a new subscriber, and here are the POWs that I am researching. > >Pvt. James William McCORMACK enlisted in Co. B 30th Regiment TN Infantry at >Red Boiling Springs, TN on Oct. 22 1861. >Imprisoned at Camp Chase Ohio, but survived the Civil War. > >Pvt. William McCORMICK enlisted in Co. E 30th Regiment TN Infantry at Red >Boiling Springs, TN on Oct. 22 1861, and died at Camp Butler IL on May 31, >1862. > >I would like to learn more about the POW Camps, Chase and Butler, and about >the conditions in those camps. I have heard that many prisoners died at Camp >Butler. >It is my understanding that Camp Chase was reserved exclusively for officers. >If that is correct, I don't understand why a private would be sent there. >Can someone give me the correct information about that? > >Thanks much, >A. Fort > >

This is a site that has a reading list of books about Ohio POW camps...still looking for information about Camp Chase...but maybe this will help someone http://www.infinet.com/~lstevens/a/prison.html Sue morgana@ghg.net

> From: Carmel Thomaston <carmel@paintedrock.com> > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 10:45:51 EST > Subject: [CW-POW-L] Is there a list somewhere? > To: CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com > Is there a list somewhere of the names and locations of the prison camps > that housed Confederates? I'm hampered in my search for information on my > gg grandfather because I don't know where he was a POW or when he was > captured. All I know is that is was paroled at Talladega, Alabama as a POW > and served in the 12th Alabama. > > Carmel Thomaston > carmel@paintedrock.com > Talladega was a major site for the discharge of Confederate Soldiers at the end of the War. As Confederate units were captured, the men were sent to these sites for processing and then paroled. Most did not serve time in Prisoner of War camps. I hope this helps. Regards, Jim Taylor -- jtaylor@datasync.com Pascagoula, Mississippi 25th Alabama Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/25ali.htm 27th Alabama Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/27th.htm Company F, 4th Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/4msif.htm Company K, 17th Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/17msik.htm Company F, 2nd Mississippi Cavalry, Ballentine's Partisan Rangers http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/2mscf.htm Company F, 42nd Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/42msif.htm Company G, 42nd Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/42msig.htm Company D, 31st Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/31msid.htm Company A, 13th Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/13msia.htm Company E, 5th Mississippi Infantry site: http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/5msie.htm

This page at my 18th Georgia Infantry Home Page has an account of the capture and imprisonment of Pvt. Robert Quinn of the 18th, as well as a poem he wrote to his wife while imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio. <http://www.mindspring.com/~allenatk/guinn.htm> Allen **************************************************************************** Allen D. Atkinson allenatk@mindspring.com Atkinson/Kilgore Genealogy Page: <http://www.mindspring.com/~allenatk/genealogy.htm> Atkinson/Kilgore Family Home Page: <http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/t/k/Allen-D-Atkinson/index.html> 18th Georgia Infantry Home Page: <http://www.mindspring.com/~allenatk/infantry.htm> Allen's World: <http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/2043/>

Regarding this, I have heard that NARA Form 80 gets you the 10 copies from your ancestor's file that the staff member selecting them thinks are most important, but you do not get the whole file. This way, the "standard" charge is $10.00. That has been my experience. I read that you can write on the form "send all files" and they will do so at a higher cost. Has anyone tried this? Does it work? Ray Faircloth rayfair@lcc.net ---------- > From: Sue <morgana@ghg.net> > To: CW-POW-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CW-POW-L] Research Tidbit > Date: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 4:57 AM > > This is a link to the page at the National Archives that > describes what records they have for CW era soldiers and how to > search them. It also includes a link to request a copy of the > NARA form 80 to send off for your ancestor's records. > > If you haven't started chasing down the military records of your > ancestor yet, check this out and it will help you know what is > out there. > > http://www.nara.gov/genealogy/civilwar.html > > Sue > morgana@ghg.net >