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        81^st

B. D. Caplinger                  SGT        81st       Andersonville Prison

Alfred Dillingham              PVT        81^st        Andersonville Prison

Richard P. Dodds              PVT        31^st

Thomas S. Gulley              PVT        81^st        Andersonville Prison

King P. Gunter                   PVT        81^st

William Hendrickson        1stSGT   60^th

George Henson                 PVT        31^st        Died in Andersonville Prison

John Hinchcliff                  CPL        81^st        Died in Andersonville Prison

James O. Johnston           PVT        81^st

James T. Johnston            PVT        81^st

John A. Jones                     PVT        81^st

Joshua H. Jones                PVT        81^st        Andersonville Prison

Thomas Lynch                   PVT        31^st

James H. McKinney          PVT        81^st        Andersonville Prison

John Meskil                        PVT        31^st

Jasper O’Daniels               PVT        16^th        Died in Andersonville Prison

Daniel Perrine                    PVT        81^st        Andersonville Prison

Elijah Peterson                  PVT        81^st        Andersonville Prison

Matthew Simes                 PVT        81^st

Cyrus C. Sims                     PVT        81^st

James A. Stacey                PVT        9^th

Wyatt L. Stavatt                CPL        81^st        Andersonville Prison

George W. Tally                PVT        81^st

Miles D. Tomlinson          PVT        81^st

James Weiks                      PVT        81^st

John Widdiman                 PVT        81^st

Barley P. Williferd             PVT        81^st

( Data obtained from Illinois Civil War Muster and Descriptive Rolls, Andersonville Prison Goodle Images; compiled by Sam Lattuca on 01/10/2013)