Your ancestor was lucky. Andersonville was the worst h-e-double-hockey-sticks hole in the Civil War. Nearly half of all the prisoners who wound up there never left. My wife has an ancestor who also survived Andersonville. By the date you give, that sounds pretty close to the date when that camp was liberated. I imagine a lot of German-Americans died there, and a lot of Irish-Americans died there. But you can bet not a single black man did. Brian On Wed, March 30, 2011 2:24 pm, Baskp0491@aol.com wrote: > Thanks to all who are sharing their German ancestors here in the USA. > My paternal grandmother's paternal grandfather was born in Hesse > Darmstadt Prussia in 1836, came to the States in 1861 and settled in > Wayne > County, Ohio. > He (Johan Friederick 'Fred' Appuhn) enlisted in McLaughlin's 16th > Infantry in June 1864. He was captured (October 1864) > during night picket duty in Decatur, AL. He spent the remainder of the > war in Andersonville.