serena, of FR, also is one of the desendents of a "mysteriously disappearred" CSA POW.
true southrons honor your ancestor as a HERO-MARTYR to the TRUE CAUSE.
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Stand, did your Indian ancestors ever have anyone they considered an honorable opponent? I consider XRdsRev to be one. Cut him some slack.
On Freepmail yesterday, XRdsRev was able to track down for me my wife's ancestor who died at Point Lookout. XRdsRev found the units he served with, his rank, the battle and date where he was captured, the two Northern prisons he was sent to (the last one being Point Lookout; the family was not aware of the first one), and the date of his death, which was apparently shortly after he arrived at Point Lookout. Perhaps he was wounded, having been captured less than a month before his death. All this was consistent with the few pieces of information that had been handed down through the family from 140 years ago.
I'm not sure why his death doesn't appear on the records at Point Lookout. Poor record keeping or missing records, I would guess. Deliberate strategy to underreport death numbers in Northern prisons? I kind of doubt it, but it is not that inconsistent with the PR campaign the North was waging at the time with respect to Andersonville.
I understand that there are a number of other missing prisoner deaths at Point Lookout. As an example in Beitzell's book on Point Lookout shows, only 5 out of 21 known deaths recorded in one prisoner's diary appear on the official record.
You are a member of the POW association for Point Lookout. What do they say about the number who died there?