oldpainter64466

This was my great-grandfather, the father of my maternal grandfather. He was captured at Guntown, MS, in the Battle of Vicksburg, and taken to the infamous POW camp at Andersonville, GA.

Just recently learned that my mother's paternal grandfather was captured at Vicksburg, MS, and transferred to this camp. I am trying to find out how long he was there and how he manage to get home to Illinois. Some of them ended up on the ill-fated Sultana, of course.