The following is a list of Civil War soldiers who used Marion as their residence when mustered into the Union Army. The list contains their names, rank, regiment of attachment and whether they were detained in Andersonville Prison. Andersonville Prison at Camp Sumter in Georgia was only one of many Confederate POW prison camps. The camp opened in February of 1864 and housed 45,000 prisoners of which almost 13,000 died of starvation, malnutrition, diarrhea, disease, alleged abuse and blunt weapon executions from guards. How anyone could survive these conditions at all is amazing. As evidenced by the photo’s of survivors, it had to leave its mark on survivors for life, if not physically, then psychologically. Sorry for the explicitness of the photos but I felt it important that we realize what some of our ancestors had to go through. For more information on Andersonville Prison, Click Here.
Edwin Atwood PVT 81st
B. D. Caplinger SGT 81st Andersonville Prison
Alfred Dillingham PVT 81st Andersonville Prison
Richard P. Dodds PVT 31st
Thomas S. Gulley PVT 81st Andersonville Prison
King P. Gunter PVT 81st
William Hendrickson 1stSGT 60th
George Henson PVT 31st Died in Andersonville Prison
John Hinchcliff CPL 81st Died in Andersonville Prison
James O. Johnston PVT 81st
James T. Johnston PVT 81st
John A. Jones PVT 81st
Joshua H. Jones PVT 81st Andersonville Prison
Thomas Lynch PVT 31st
James H. McKinney PVT 81st Andersonville Prison
John Meskil PVT 31st
Jasper O’Daniels PVT 16th Died in Andersonville Prison
Daniel Perrine PVT 81st Andersonville Prison
Elijah Peterson PVT 81st Andersonville Prison
Matthew Simes PVT 81st
Cyrus C. Sims PVT 81st
James A. Stacey PVT 9th
Wyatt L. Stavatt CPL 81st Andersonville Prison
George W. Tally PVT 81st
Miles D. Tomlinson PVT 81st
James Weiks PVT 81st
John Widdiman PVT 81st
Barley P. Williferd PVT 81st
( Data obtained from Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls, Andersonville Prison Goodle Images; compiled by Sam Lattuca on 01/10/2013)