Very very interesting site, Kat, thank you for the link! Jeanne On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:47 PM, William Hurst <wrhurst_17@msn.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > A first cousin, twice removed, of mine, Elizabeth Ann Southern Shelor of > Wythe County, whose mother was Nancy Hurst Southern, married a man variously > known as Indiandozier Bogenshield Shelor or John B. Shelor. Known as Dozier, > in the 50th VA, he was captured during the CW, sent first to Point Lookout, > then on to the Elmira prison camp. He died there in 1865. His widow in her > pension application years later still wasn't happy, claiming he was starved, > as I remember. She is buried in the Meadows of Dan Baptist Church Cemetery. > Dozier is buried in the Woodlawn National Cemetery in Elmira. A cemetery > official was kind enough to send me a photo of his gravestone a few years > ago. > > My great granduncle Samuel Vincent Wheeler, along with most of the 51st VA, > was captured and sent to Fort Delaware near the end of the War. I've heard > they were sent first to Point Lookout. (My great grandfather William Raleigh > Wheeler managed not to get captured.) The fact that my father lived for a > while with his uncle Samuel, a CW vet, makes me feel old. Not as old as Ole > Paul, of course. > > I've been to Point Lookout, but years ago. Also Fort Delaware, which is > much more interesting to visit. > > Bill Hurst > > > It is said that in the yankee prison camps that the southern soldiers > > were starving...at one camp, maybe Elmira, NY...the townsfolk would > > bring their sunday picnic lunches out on a hillside overlooking the > > camp, and would toss chicken bones and apple cores across rhe fence and > > laugh to see the prisoners scrambling to get them to eat....also, some > > of the northern guards were black, and they showed no mercy to the > > Rebels...Paul > > > > keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul > > To contact Listowner: > Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com > View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >