I am looking for my grandfather's uncle, Henry John Coleman b. 1841 Flat Creek Bedford CO TN, his name could be John Henry. He enlisted during the Civil War I don't know which side. He did not come home and never was heard from. Therefore his family thought he died. ~~ AM ----- Original Message ----- From: "frye" <frye@gnat.net> To: <TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 1:37 PM Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Andersonville Civil War POW site > > > I would like to welcome those of you new to this site and tell you there are some really great folks who are willing to help just for the asking. I, myself do Volunteer research at Andersonville Civil War Prison in Andersonville Georgia. There are Any research I do is absolutely at NO cost and I am willing to do what I can. There are 1200 prisoners on record from the state of Tennessee and almost 800 who died here, I thought I would send my offer. As Tennessee was one of the states that was torn apart and was truly brother against brother,,I feel the need to say I am not in anyway trying to focus on the horrors of Andersonville compared to any POW camp in the north ..( i.e.Elmira ) or any others and do not wish to stir up arguments on this site. My focus is dedicated to ALL of those held prisoner during this war , on both sides. I just happen to be near Andersonville so this is where I do my work. > > Here are my sources of research. > > There are 2 online databases to do lookups.....One by name...one by Company and Regiment. I also have a copy of the Dorence Atwater Death list > > which has the names and grave numbers of 12960 graves with only 460 marked as " UNKNOWN " This along with a CD I have which contains 34,000 names of the 45,000 who > > were imprisoned there which helps me find prisoner records because of misspellings of the names or alternate names. I visit the prison site every > > couple of weeks and have access to the onsite databases as well as the physical files. I would like to let you know of another service I offer which is to take photos of graves for a small fee. Please do not consider this spam as my research offer is FREE for the asking and will be posted on this county site only once. > > If there is anything I can do in helping your research at Andersonville, please just ask. > > > > Kevin Frye > > Local Andersonville Historian / National Park Service Volunteer > > > > Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned and died in captivity while in the service to our country > > http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html > > AOL USERS go to http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/ > >

Hi AM, I did a search on "Coleman" and "Tennessee" on the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site ( http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.htm ) and it returned 197 Coleman soldiers - just for Tennessee. Here are a few that were listed. The "John Coleman's" are too numerous to list, so you should have a look for yourself. You can click on the "regiment" that is listed and it will give you a brief history of where the unit was organized and which battles they fought in during the war. This might help you find your ancestor. You can also see if you recognize other Bedford County soldier names in the unit, to help you narrow it down. Just keep in mind that folks in Bedford County sometimes joined in other places, for example, three men in my family joined a unit in Nashville. Anyway, hope this helps. Good luck! Kathryn Coleman, J.H., Confederate Cavalry 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Forrest's) Coleman, J.H., Confederate Infantry 27th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Coleman, J.H., Confederate Cavalry 8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Smith's) Coleman, Henry, Confederate Cavalry 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Forrest's) Coleman, Henry H., Confederate Cavalry 9th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Ward's) Coleman, Henry J., Confederate Infantry 1st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (Field's) <snip> I am looking for my grandfather's uncle, Henry John Coleman b. 1841 Flat Creek Bedford CO TN, his name could be John Henry. He enlisted during the Civil War I don't know which side. He did not come home and never was heard from. Therefore his family thought he died. ~~ AM\ <snip> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com