American Civil War POW Camp Butler

Question

I have been adding my family's CSA soldiers, and even a few others not related from Arkansas, especially Union County. When I added CSA records for a couple of boys I had listed sometime ago, Thomas Teague and John Teague, brothers, who served in the Johnson's (SW) 15th Arkansas Infantry Co D, were captured at the Battle of Ft Donelson, Tennessee and sent to Camp Butler, where they died within months of each other.

Terry Wright and Paula J produced this beautiful Camp Butler Page.  http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Camp_Butler_Prisoner_of_War_Camp

No matter how anyone feels about the South, the Civil War, or the War of Northern Aggression, or even slavery, these boys fought and died for what they believed in.  The Teagues 1850 and 1860 Union Co AR were not slave owners. But they fought and died for the South.

Answer 1

Lynette,

Thank you so much for posting this! Your profiles inspired this tribute to the POWs of a camp which earned the name Camp Misery.  

Please let me know if anyone has profiles of US Civil War profiles of Prisoners of War as we add tribute pages to as many as possible. We are ready to add Camp Butler POWs to the tribute page now.

I am working on Elmira which will be ready next. Terri Ricks and Terry Wright already have the Roll of Honor Project and this is just to expand on their earlier work.  Thanks, gals!!

Comments

Don't forget to check out the US Civil War Project!!

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:US_Civil_War:_War_Between_the_States