----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Szyszka<mailto:bearsystems@yahoo.com> To: Robert Carman<mailto:sixgran@msn.com> Sent: Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:53 AM Subject: Re: Civil War POW Sorry, I do not have a clue on what you should do.. Thanks, Mike Szyszka BearSystems.com (It's about the Hudson Valley)<http://bearsystems.com/> Ask me about advertising on BearSystems.com Follow BearSystems on Twitter<http://twitter.com/#!/BearSystems> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We make it happen, Advertising, Web Sites, SEO, Marketing, Web Analytics, Social Media Package Bear Systems Publishing. LLC<http://bearsystemspublishingllc.com/> PO Box 1427 Woodstock, NY 12498 (845) 853-9962 Please consider the environment before printing this email. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Robert Carman <sixgran@msn.com> To: bearsystems@yahoo.com Sent: Fri, May 13, 2011 1:27:53 PM Subject: Civil War POW With the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the civil war I would like to put to rest the recognition of my Great Great Uncle, William Vincent Carman of New Baltimore, Greene County, N.Y. It seems that there is no record of his serving in the Army during the war in the N.Y. State or Greene County Records. He enlisted in the N.Y. 2nd. Mounted Rifles in Dec. of 1863 and was captured in the battle of Cold Harbor, Virginia in June 1864. He was interred in Andersonville, Prison , Georgia and died there in Sept. 1864. I have the complete service record from the National Archives and although he enlisted in Buffalo, N.Y. his home of record was New Baltimore. He is buried in Grave # 9420 in Andersonville. He had a Will prepared in 1860 but it was never probated until 1881 as evidently no one knew where he was. He had been married before his service but his wife died in 1860. She is buried in the Rensselaerville Cemetery in Rensselaerville, N.Y. where his wife was from.He had requested in his will that he be buried alongside his wife when he died and even described what was to be inscribed on his grave stone. Of course that never happened. I have tried unsuccessfully to get Mrs. Sylvia Hasenkopf who is a Genealogist and the local Historian to include him (William Vincent Carman) on the roles of those who served during the civil war but she was reluctant to do this. As a retired military person myself I put great importance in matters such as this. I do not know if this is in your purview but perhaps you can point me in the right direction. Respectfully Robert W. Carman USN, Ret.