My great grandfather, John Henderson Freeman, served with Co. I, 34th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, Bowen's Compnay, Walthall's Brigade. He began writing a diary when he volunteered and left his home in Tyro, Mississippi. He sent the diary home just 3 days before he was captured at Lookout Mountain, Chatanooga, TN on November 24, 1863. Divine providence or just coincidence? His records state he was forwarded to Military Prison in Louisville, KY, then to Rock Island Barracks on December 1, 1863. He was transferred for exchange (where?) on March 13, 1865, and was paroled May 25, 1865 in Memphis, TN. His diary is posted online and can be read at: http://www.public.usit.net/mruddy/freeman.htm When he returned home , he picked up the diary and began keeping a daily journal, or log, in the same book, but to my knowledge, never wrote about his experiences in POW camp. Surprising, because he loved to write. Perhaps he did, and those writings were not saved or passed down. Wanda Ridge