Chapter XXIII: Part 23

DEATHS.

Eckings T R, L’t 3d N J Vol
Henderson J H, L’t 14th Ill Vet Batn
Jackson R W, L’t 21st Wis Vol
Spafford A C, L’t 41st O Vol
Wenrick J E, Cap 19th Penn Cav
Young A, L’t 4th Penn Cav

In the closing of this book, we deem it fitting to produce a very
correct likeness of our beloved President, who lies at death’s
door, smitten by the hand of the assassin Guiteau. This is done
more in appreciation of the peculiar sadness of the circumstances
and the anxiety of the people, than because of any connection which
the cut may have with the other contents of the book.

46TH CONGRESS, 2D SESSION. H. R. 4495.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

FEBRUARY 16, 1880.

Read twice, referred to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, and ordered to be printed.

Mr. Keifer, by unanimous consent, introduced the following bill:

A BILL granting pensions to certain Union soldiers and sailors
of the late war of the rebellion who were confined in so called
Confederate prisons.

Whereas during the late rebellion many soldiers and sailors of
the Federal Army and Navy, through the fortunes of war, became
prisoners and were confined in so called Confederate prisons, to
the detriment and permanent injury of their health, but whose
debility is of such a general and indefinable character as to
exclude them from the benefits of existing pension laws: Therefore

_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled_, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he hereby is, authorized and required to place upon the pension-rolls of the United States, upon application and proof being made to the satisfaction of the Department, all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors of the Federal Army and Navy who, during the late war, were captured and confined, during the period of six months or more, in any of the prisons or places commonly used for the confinement of prisoners by the so called Confederate authorities during the late rebellion, and who are not now beneficiaries, nor entitled to become so under existing pension laws of the United States.

SEC. 2. That such pension shall in each case begin from the date of the discharge of the soldier or sailor aforesaid from the military or naval service of the United States, and shall be at the rate of eight dollars per month in cases where the term of imprisonment shall have been more than six months and less than one year, and one dollar per month additional for each full month of such imprisonment in excess of one year. And the said pension shall be paid at the same time and in the same manner as other pensions are paid: _Provided_, That nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize the reduction or to prevent the increase of the pension of any person now receiving or entitled to receive the benefits of existing pension laws.

TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Each line of the List of the Dead gives as much information about
that soldier as was known. A missing item was left blank in the
original book, but has been given a - or — mark in this etext.

The format of each entry is as follows:

Grave number from 1 to 12916.
There are some gaps in the numbering and some duplicates; this
book states a total of 12,912 deaths over the fourteen months.

Name with initials or first name, or —— if none known.
If he held a rank other than Private it is added after a comma.
The most common abbreviations are Cor and S’t for Corporal and
Sergeant, but others are used as well.

Branch of the Army, if not Infantry.
The most common are Cav for Cavalry, Art for Artillery, Bat for
Battery, Mar for Marine Corps, Cit for Citizen.

Cemetery number at Andersonville.
Nearly 200 separate numbered burial areas were used.

Assigned Company within Andersonville.
Thirteen groups or Companies, A through M.

Recorded date of burial.
Month and day. The year 1864 is assumed, unless 65 is added
after the date. The following entries will be assumed 65 as
well, until a 64 is given, indicating a reversion to 1864.
The original book also placed a 64 (sometimes 65) at the
first entry on a book page, and these have not been removed.

The first few pages covering Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware and
District of Columbia, had the ‘Cemetery’ before the ‘Branch’ field
when that was present; also a few in Illinois; for example ‘1 Cav’
and ‘2 Art’. These have been reversed to ‘Cav 1’ and ‘Art 2’ to be
consistent with the rest of the List.

In most pages of the later States (Massachusetts to Pennsylvania)
the rank was missing; this has been added (Cor or S’t), when
present in the Library of Congress (LoC) source document.

In some cases the service branch has been changed to a shorter
abbreviation of 3-5 characters to maintain the table format. For
example ‘Tenn St Gd’ or similar has been changed to ‘StG’;
‘St Militia’ or similar has been changed to ‘Mil’; ‘Mar Corps’ or
similar has been changed to ‘Mar’; ‘Sig Corps’ or similar has been
changed to ‘Sig’.

A few names had different spelling in this List versus the LoC
document. In general the List spelling has been retained unless
clearly a typo.

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors in the diary
and in the List have been corrected after careful comparison with
other occurrences within the text and reference to the LoC
document.

Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added,
when a predominant preference was found in the original book.

Except for those changes in the diary text noted below, all
misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage,
have been retained.

Pg 15: ‘not conformiug with’ replaced by ‘not conforming with’.
Pg 17: ‘eat everythihg on’ replaced by ‘eat everything on’.
Pg 21: ‘agrees with we’ replaced by ‘agrees with me’.
Pg 22: ‘quantities. Rlchmond’ replaced by ‘quantities. Richmond’.
Pg 27: ‘what he he is worth’ replaced by ‘what he is worth’.
Pg 30: ‘They Holy Sabbath’ replaced by ‘The Holy Sabbath’.
Pg 32: ‘friends Myres and’ replaced by ‘friends Myers and’.
Pg 40: ‘into the croud’ replaced by ‘into the crowd’.
Pg 45: ‘at comcealment’ replaced by ‘at concealment’.
Pg 48: ‘quarters near is’ replaced by ‘quarters near us’.
Pg 51: ‘stood i bravely’ replaced by ‘stood it bravely’.
Pg 54: ‘men at the time’ replaced by ‘men all the time’.
Pg 56: ‘slung shots’ replaced by ‘sling shots’.
Pg 57: ‘stortly after being’ replaced by ‘shortly after being’.
Pg 58: ‘and perhaps myelf’ replaced by ‘and perhaps myself’.
Pg 64: ‘ard negotiating’ replaced by ‘and negotiating’.
Pg 72: ‘the more peacable’ replaced by ‘the more peaceable’.
Pg 73: ‘sick a e again’ replaced by ‘sick are again’.
Pg 73: ‘Mang prefer to’ replaced by ‘Many prefer to’.
Pg 75: ‘tolera- no longer’ replaced by ‘tolerated no longer’.
Pg 80: ‘and perpaps a few’ replaced by ‘and perhaps a few’.
Pg 83: ‘if neccessary using’ replaced by ‘if necessary using’.
Pg 85: ‘business of g’ replaced by ‘business of living’.
Pg 86: ‘Statue has nothing’ replaced by ‘Stature has nothing’.
Pg 87: ‘much nore to eat’ replaced by ‘much more to eat’.
Pg 92: ‘Ang. 17.’ replaced by ‘Aug. 17.’.
Pg 100: ‘Knaw onion’ replaced by ‘Gnaw onion’.
Pg 105: ‘belive they would’ replaced by ‘believe they would’.
Pg 108: ‘never endnred any’ replaced by ‘never endured any’.
Pg 109: ‘WAR ELECTION DAY’ replaced by ‘WAR—ELECTION DAY’.
Pg 110: ‘his portion is his’ replaced by ‘his portion in his’.
Pg 110: ‘see one onother’ replaced by ‘see one another’.
Pg 110: ‘little Bulluck who’ replaced by ‘little Bullock who’.
Pg 111: ‘a good murse’ replaced by ‘a good nurse’.
Pg 113: ‘and ver often’ replaced by ‘and very often’.
Pg 115: ‘occasions helped the’ replaced by ‘occasions I helped the’.
Pg 122: ‘the heighth of’ replaced by ‘the height of’.
Pg 124: ‘and shave eaten’ replaced by ‘and have eaten’.
Pg 126: ‘a small pototoe’ replaced by ‘a small potatoe’.
Pg 129: ‘given me comfidence’ replaced by ‘given me confidence’.
Pg 132: ‘are alse entitled’ replaced by ‘are also entitled’.
Pg 135: ‘a though “Dave” says’ replaced by ‘although “Dave” says’.
Pg 136: ‘joined one anotder’ replaced by ‘joined one another’.
Pg 137: ‘yon are Yankees’ replaced by ‘you are Yankees’.
Pg 137: ‘ate and and talked’ replaced by ‘ate and talked’.
Pg 141: ‘to Jocco’s hut’ replaced by ‘to Jocko’s hut’.
Pg 142: ‘caught halping’ replaced by ‘caught helping’.
Pg 142: ‘for his pictnre’ replaced by ‘for his picture’.
Pg 143: ‘a chain b at’ replaced by ‘a chain boat’.
Pg 144: ‘Wil stick to him’ replaced by ‘Will stick to him’.
Pg 145: ‘not go as as quiet’ replaced by ‘not go as quiet’.
Pg 146: ‘See kept talking’ replaced by ‘She kept talking’.
Pg 148: ‘and he wovld have’ replaced by ‘and he would have’.
Pg 149: ‘won’t get canght’ replaced by ‘won’t get caught’.
Pg 150: ‘or black cloth’ replaced by ‘of black cloth’.
Pg 152: ‘as near at we can’ replaced by ‘as near as we can’.
Pg 154: ‘also some shouttng’ replaced by ‘also some shouting’.
Pg 155: ‘and say tle’ replaced by ‘and say the’.
Pg 155: ‘must heep watch’ replaced by ‘must keep watch’.
Pg 156: ‘left them entirly’ replaced by ‘left them entirely’.
Pg 156: ‘2d Divisiom’ replaced by ‘2d Division’.
Pg 157: ‘the rebel cttizens’ replaced by ‘the rebel citizens’.
Pg 160: ‘In may interest’ replaced by ‘It may interest’.
Pg 161: ‘a delieate frame’ replaced by ‘a delicate frame’.
Pg 170: ‘this time Skelly’ replaced by ‘this time Skelley’.
Pg 172: ‘my descriipton of’ replaced by ‘my description of’.
Pg 178: ‘to the brian’ replaced by ‘to the bran’.
Pg 180: ‘from the balnket’ replaced by ‘from the blanket’.
Pg 184: ‘the Eng-ligh navy’ replaced by ‘the English navy’.
Pg 192: ‘cam grano salis’ replaced by ‘cum grano salis’.