Those of you living close to Columbia SC interested in Johnson's Island Federal Prison, referenced below, particularly if you had relatives who were imprisoned there should know that the principal responsible for the acquisition of the prison site will be at the SC Dept of Archives in September. http://www.state.sc.us/scdah/2006civilwar.htm Dr. David Bush will speak at the 9th Annual Symposium on S Carolina Civil War History, September 22 -23. He has for years managed archaeological digs at the camp in conjunction with Heidelberg College and has a fascinating story of daily camp life based on thousands of items recovered. Charles Boyd Atlanta -----Original Message----- From: Janean Ray [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [SCCHEST2] Civil War Confederate Cemetery I watched a PBS special last night about Ohio and Lake Erie and they talked about Johnson's Island and the Confederate Prisoner Cemetery. This site is amazing and chalked full of Confederate soldiers names. http://www.johnsonsisland.org/index.htm This web site provides listings of Confederate prisoners of war and Union guard garrison, the history of Johnson's Island, and information on visiting the island and POW cemetery which overlooks Sandusky Bay in Lake Erie. The Civil War section also includes POW letters and autograph books. When you get to the main page click on the second tab History and POW's. A drop down menu gets you to the Cemetery which has no listings per se on line of who all is there but if you click on Barbierie List you'll get an A-Z and more of names. This list includes only those prisoners on Johnson's Island prior to September of 1862. Prisoners on the island after this date are not listed. I forwarded this to my Confederate states lists as well as couple others so I am sorry for repeated emails and please forward this on to your lists as I don't subscribe to some of these southern states. What a find this can be. Janean ==== SCCHEST2 Mailing List ==== The Chester County Website (USGenWeb Project) is up for adoption. If you are interested, please contact the State Coordinator, Victoria Proctor, at [email protected]