Dear Eleanor, I am NO expert in original research regarding Civil War prisoners (and I unintentionally misled you.) How I know more of them died in camps than in battle is more through general research into their families. Some of the families I am searching have many researchers who share information. For instance it is commonly is known that Marmaduke Mayes son of the "other" Edward Mayes of Grainger County died at Camp Lookout. (This was a Union Prison Camp. It seems that most of Dudley Mayes descendents were Confederate sympathizers as I know of their service, but this does not necessarly apply to all the Mayeses as far as I can tell.) Marmaduke died and was buried at Camp Lookout. I have seen a listing in those buried in Camp Lookout online. I surely would have saved this URL, I will check through my favorites and see if I can locate it. I am not sure whether you are looking for soldiers who died in prison camp or those who survived and came home. Like I said I haven't done tons of original research into this topic. My great great grandmother's Louisa Gray Mayes's brother-in-law Edward Tate was supposed to have died in a CONFDERATE prison camp, but I am certain I got this from the Tate section in Leaves From the Family Tree, a common book found in many genealogy libraries including mine in St. Joe. Somehow I knew James S. Kidwell died at Andersonville although I am not descended from the Kidwells. I could go on and on, but most of what I knw comes from pretty common references. That is why I asked for help on James S. Kidwell. Probably I should do more checking with original sources rather than just passing this stuff on. Nevertheless as I said it seems that many of my family "connections" died in prison camps and the only "cousin" I can think of that died in battle was Calvin Ivey who died at Vicksburg. Calvin was the son of my third great grandfather Benjamin (Ivey)Ivy's brother John and his wife Elizabeth Kidwell. (Elizabeth Kidwell would have been James Stirling Kidwell's half sister.) However, you have piqued my curiosity. There is a vast trove of Civil War information online. However, it is all over the place, and sometimes difficult to find. I have already found one truly great source and I am going to look some more and then send this information on to the list. Gail ----- Original Message ----- From: ELEANOR McCAIN <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 13:44 Subject: [TNGRAING-L] Confederate records > Gail - am following the discussion for Civil War participation by > Tennessee folks. You mentioned on Mar. 9th that you had had some > experience with researching prisoners - from both sides. Do you have a > good source for such info regarding Confederate soldiers - Tennessee or > otherwise? Would appreciate any leads. > > Thanks, > > Eleanor > > > > ==== TNGRAING Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE please send your message to [email protected] >