Contact Kevin directly...his e-mail address is at the end of message Andersonville Civil War Prison, Georgia I will do free Volunteer research at Andersonville Civil War Prison, Andersonville, Georgia. There are 1200 prisoners on record from the state of Tennessee and almost 800 who died here. 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 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 will take photos of the graves for a small fee. Kevin Frye Local Andersonville Historian/National Park Service Volunteer [email protected] Source: [email protected] Written permission to reprint given by The Dalles Chronicle, The Dalles, Oregon Copied and submitted by Earline Wasser Member of Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society c/o The Dalles/Wasco County Public Library 722 Court Street The Dalles, Oregon 97058 http://community.oregonlive.com/cc/genealogy Browse http://historysavers.com/orwasco/ recently updated information regarding Wasco County - Links are at the bottom of page http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson >From: "Gail Roorda" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [TNGRAING-L] Confederate records >Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 20:45:17 -0600 > >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] > > > > >==== TNGRAING Mailing List ==== >To UNSUBSCRIBE please send your message to [email protected] > _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail