My Great-Great-Great Grandfather
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My Great-Great-Great Grandfather
I was cruising the net looking for some information on an old cemetery where some of my kin are buried and found a link to a site called
"findagrave". I searched for my Great-Great-Great Grandfather Eli T. Brison ( He was from Tennessee) because I did not know where he was buried at. Turns out he is buried in Andersonville Prison Cemetery, Andersonville Ga. He was a Union soldier in the B Cav 7 Tenn, so I am assuming he was a prisoner of war and died there in 1864. I don't know anything else. I do know it was a terrible place.
All of my other relatives that I have traced to being in the Civil War were Confederates from Arkansas.
Anyway, I have another piece of my family puzzle to try to piece together and thought I would share.
JBowen
"findagrave". I searched for my Great-Great-Great Grandfather Eli T. Brison ( He was from Tennessee) because I did not know where he was buried at. Turns out he is buried in Andersonville Prison Cemetery, Andersonville Ga. He was a Union soldier in the B Cav 7 Tenn, so I am assuming he was a prisoner of war and died there in 1864. I don't know anything else. I do know it was a terrible place.
All of my other relatives that I have traced to being in the Civil War were Confederates from Arkansas.
Anyway, I have another piece of my family puzzle to try to piece together and thought I would share.
JBowen
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Glad you could at least find another piece of the puzzle of your family's history.
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That is interesting but very sad, from what I have read Andersonville was not a place anyone would want to end up in.
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I have made a lot of ancestral family connections thanks to Find-a-Grave. Very useful site. Sorry to hear your GGGGF perished in that horrible place.
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Same here, thanks for the info on the site.gamekeeper wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 3:18 am That is interesting but very sad, from what I have read Andersonville was not a place anyone would want to end up in.
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I have a grand parent who survived Andersonville as a POW. I wonder if they knew one another?JBowen wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:48 pm I was cruising the net looking for some information on an old cemetery where some of my kin are buried and found a link to a site called
"findagrave". I searched for my Great-Great-Great Grandfather Eli T. Brison ( He was from Tennessee) because I did not know where he was buried at. Turns out he is buried in Andersonville Prison Cemetery, Andersonville Ga. He was a Union soldier in the B Cav 7 Tenn, so I am assuming he was a prisoner of war and died there in 1864. I don't know anything else. I do know it was a terrible place.
All of my other relatives that I have traced to being in the Civil War were Confederates from Arkansas.
Anyway, I have another piece of my family puzzle to try to piece together and thought I would share.
JBowen
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This article may be of interest:JBowen wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:48 pm I was cruising the net looking for some information on an old cemetery where some of my kin are buried and found a link to a site called
"findagrave". I searched for my Great-Great-Great Grandfather Eli T. Brison ( He was from Tennessee) because I did not know where he was buried at. Turns out he is buried in Andersonville Prison Cemetery, Andersonville Ga. He was a Union soldier in the B Cav 7 Tenn, so I am assuming he was a prisoner of war and died there in 1864. I don't know anything else. I do know it was a terrible place.
All of my other relatives that I have traced to being in the Civil War were Confederates from Arkansas.
Anyway, I have another piece of my family puzzle to try to piece together and thought I would share.
JBowen
https://www.seibelfamily.net/7th-tennee ... valry.html
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Thanks, Bruce. That is something you don't read in our history books in high school. My GGGGF died in August 1864 duringBruce Scott wrote: ↑Wed Jan 03, 2024 4:28 pmThis article may be of interest:JBowen wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 11:48 pm I was cruising the net looking for some information on an old cemetery where some of my kin are buried and found a link to a site called
"findagrave". I searched for my Great-Great-Great Grandfather Eli T. Brison ( He was from Tennessee) because I did not know where he was buried at. Turns out he is buried in Andersonville Prison Cemetery, Andersonville Ga. He was a Union soldier in the B Cav 7 Tenn, so I am assuming he was a prisoner of war and died there in 1864. I don't know anything else. I do know it was a terrible place.
All of my other relatives that I have traced to being in the Civil War were Confederates from Arkansas.
Anyway, I have another piece of my family puzzle to try to piece together and thought I would share.
JBowen
https://www.seibelfamily.net/7th-tennee ... valry.html
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Find A Grave comes up often in "hints" through Ancestry.com. I really like it. Having read some great (informative) obituaries, and some terrible ones, when I wrote my Mom's obituary a couple years ago I wrote it for her family and friends now, but to be a resource for our descendants a hundred years from now.
I had ancestors serving on both sides of the Civil War too. Family lore has the one serving in the Union having escaped from a Confederate prison, but I have yet to confirm it.
I had ancestors serving on both sides of the Civil War too. Family lore has the one serving in the Union having escaped from a Confederate prison, but I have yet to confirm it.