One of the "fortunate" soldiers that survived the horrors at the Andersonville Prison Camp
May God rest the sould of your great-grandmother’s brother, that he gave everything so that so many may be free. I humbly provide what honor I can to such a great man.
Thank you. He was Sergeant Alexander Wishart, Bedford Co., Pa
One of my Union ancestors was captured at Chickamauga. He was taken first to Belle Isle in Richmond, then to Danville, VA where a tobacco warehouse was converted to a prison. Finally he was moved to Andersonville. He died of scurvy there three months before the end of the war.