Thanks Gail, I too, have been searching for a ggggrandfather who was in the Civil War. This will be a great help! Again Thanks Sylvia >From: "Gail Roorda" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [TNGRAING-L] Civil War Prisons (Andersonville) >Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 20:55:28 -0600 > >Dear Fellow Researchers. > >I told Eleanor that I would scout around the internet and see what was >available on Civil War prisons and prisoners. The following is mostly >information about Andersonville. > >First of all I checked the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System website. >It had been a long time since I checked out this site which is a projcet of >the National Park service. > >http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/index.html > >They now have two prisons on line, Fort McHenry and Andersonville. I >searched on James Kidwell since he was the only soldier I currently know of >who died at Andersonville. (He was listed.) > >The Civil War Sailors and Soldiers System site has progressed rather >slowly, >but the Park Service now has one Civil War Cemetery online (Poplar Bluff) >and plans to eventually put all the burials in the Civil War cemeteries >they >manage online. > >You might also want to search under soldiers. I tried searching on various >soldiers I know of from Grainger County who fought in the Civil War. I did >find information on two soldiers who could be my great great uncles (since >these gentlemen have really common names I am not going to list them. >Everyone will think I am one of those hopful genealogists whose ancestor's >name was John Smith and upon finding any reference to John Smith assume it >is their ancestor. I will explain about these gentlemen later in >connection >with a URL I have been intending to send to the list for some time.) I >searched on James Kidwell and he was listed in this database, too. > >The soldiers units are listed and the rosters for their units are posted. >Just click on the link. In the case of my great great uncles their unit >would be the 60th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry (Crawford's) (79th >Infantry) There is both a list of the men in this Unit and a printable >Excel >Report (this function was not working today, at least not for this Unit). >I >also did a search on James S. Kidwell. He is listed and his unit is online >too. (4th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry.) My great great uncles were >confederates and James Kidwell was a union soldier. (There is also a short >history of the 4th regiment Tennessee Cavalry.) > >Andersonville National Historic Site is also online at: >http://www.nps.gov/ande/ > >You can search for prisoners here too, but what the search feature does is >send you to the Soldiers & Sailors site which I have already referenced >above. > >A REALLY GREAT SITE: > >This is actually the Macon County Georgia Site: > >They have the National Park Service databases online: > >http://www.montezuma-ga.org/chamber/aville.html > >You are asked not to contact the website for further information, but to >contact the Park Service (an address is provided). However, there is much >more complete information here than on the National Park Services own >Soldiers & Sailors System site. I did a search here on Mary Mayes's (that's >Mary the daughter of Edward Mayes and Nanie Greenlee <grin> there were >numerous Mary Mayses) husband James Sterling Kidwell. > >You can try this out for yourselves <smile> Search on James Kidwell. You >will find the following information: Kidwell James Private TN. If you click >on the code next to the soldier's name you get much more complete >information. The death date, cause of death (as Grace said Scorbutus) >burial >site. You can also find out the sources for the information on the >individual soldier. See reference numbers. If you click on the reference >descriptions link at the bottom of the page there is a list of the sources >used to compile the database. > >The sources for the information on James Kidwell:The Atwater list which >Grace has already described to us (Thank you Grace <smile>) >and Tennesseans in the Civil War Part II.) > >I am about written out. Tomorrow (hopefully) online infromation on another >prison. > >Gail in MO > > > > > > > > > > > > > >==== TNGRAING Mailing List ==== >To UNSUBSCRIBE please send your message to [email protected] _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail