Thanks Jack, I usually mention that...but neglected to this time. Kevin Please visit my website which is dedicated to those Civil War Prisoners of War who were held captive for what they believed in. http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Cox" <jack_cox@kc.net> To: <IL-CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [IL-CIVIL-WAR] Prisoners of War > I know that someone is going to ask this, so . . . > > Scorbutus is scurvy, or vitamin C deficiency. > > Jack Cox >

Kevin, I finally found my ancestor on the Andersonville list. His name was George Levi Palmer, Co. K, 7th IL INF. He was sometimes recorded as Parmer instead of Palmer - even in some of the Union records. There was a notation on a "Memorandum from Prisoner of War Records" that said "see Parmer." The same records indicate the use on different occasions of J. L. Palmer or G. L. Palmer. Finally, I did a search on Parmer, and found a J. Parmer, Co. K, 7th IL on the Andersonville site. The date of exchange (I guess he lucked out!) was April 1, 1865. There was no J. Parmer in Co. K, so this has to be him. In his pension application, George noted that he escaped from Andersonville on April 14, 1865 - so either he was stretching the truth or the Andersonville records were not quite correct. In any case, considering his pension, the notation in his file that "His name appears on Original Register of Federal Prisoners of War confined at Andersonville Ga. 1864-65" and the information on the Andersonville site pretty ties it all together. Thanks for the resources you put on your page. It was a great help. Jack Cox