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From: "Kevin Frye" <>
Subject: [CAAmador] Andersonville Civil War POW site
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:46:04 -0400


Hello veterans and newbies of the rootsweb.

There are some really great folks who are willing to help just for the asking. I, myself do Volunteer research at Andersonville Civil War Prison in Andersonville Georgia. I know that California was not closely involved in the war here on the East coast, but I do know that many soldiers and families went West following the conflict including a few of my ancestors.. Any research I do is absolutely at NO cost and I am willing to do what I can. There are 41771 prisoners on record from the Union Regiments who were held here and 12960 who died here . Of these, only 460 are marked as Unknown. I thought I would send

my offer to this site as I have gotten many request from California researchers in the 3 years I have been doing my work here at Andersonville.. I feel the need to say I am not in anyway trying to focus on the horrors of Andersonville compared to any POW camp in the north ..( i.e.Elmira ) or any others and do not wish to stir up arguments on this site. My focus is dedicated to ALL of those held prisoner during this war , on both sides as well as all Americans who gave their freedoms for those that we enjoy today.. I just happen to be near Andersonville so this is where I do my work



Here are my sources of research.



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 the 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 would like to let you know of another service I offer

which is to take photos of graves for a small fee. Please do not consider

this spam as my research offer is FREE for the asking and will be posted on

this county site only once.



If there is anything I can do in helping your research at Andersonville,

please just ask.







Kevin Frye

Local Andersonville Historian / National Park Service Volunteer

Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned and died in captivity while in the service to our country
Kevn Frye
Local Andersonville Historian / National Park Service Volunteer

http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html

AOL USERS go to http://hometown.aol.com/andersonvillecw/

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