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DannyW · (This post was last modified: 10-25-2017 04:34 PM by DannyW.)

(10-24-2017 06:15 PM)Steve Wrote: The newspaper accounts at the time said 48 rebel prisoners and 17 Veteran Reserve Corp soldiers were buried at the site of the accident with an additional 15 rebel prisoners unable to be moved by train to Elmira and 8 VRC soldiers unable to be moved:

http://civilwar.gratzpa.org/2014/04/the-...r-reports/

48 + 17 = 65

The later number of 72 people killed may come from some of the 15 prisoners who were too injured to be moved to Elmira right away. Or alternatively 5 of those extra people could include the 5 escapees. Either way I can't imagine that all of the 15 severely injured prisoners survived. If the injured prisoners weren't included in the 72 numbers, some of them may be buried elsewhere in Pennsylvania.

In regards to the blog post's about J. S. Hatch's fate, Lillian Henderson's book is both comprehensive and full of errors. See this:

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/lillian...65.122424/

Here's an image of Hatch's POW roster, it lists him as "not identified died or escaped" on July 15, 1864 (11th name from bottom):

Even if Hatch did escape, I don't see how he could be listed as "Released 1865". I'm pretty sure it's just an error Henderson made.

(10-25-2017 04:22 PM)DannyW Wrote:
(10-24-2017 06:15 PM)Steve Wrote: The newspaper accounts at the time said 48 rebel prisoners and 17 Veteran Reserve Corp soldiers were buried at the site of the accident with an additional 15 rebel prisoners unable to be moved by train to Elmira and 8 VRC soldiers unable to be moved:

http://civilwar.gratzpa.org/2014/04/the-...r-reports/

48 + 17 = 65

The later number of 72 people killed may come from some of the 15 prisoners who were too injured to be moved to Elmira right away. Or alternatively 5 of those extra people could include the 5 escapees. Either way I can't imagine that all of the 15 severely injured prisoners survived. If the injured prisoners weren't included in the 72 numbers, some of them may be buried elsewhere in Pennsylvania.

In regards to the blog post's about J. S. Hatch's fate, Lillian Henderson's book is both comprehensive and full of errors. See this:

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/lillian...65.122424/

Here's an image of Hatch's POW roster, it lists him as "not identified died or escaped" on July 15, 1864 (11th name from bottom):

Even if Hatch did escape, I don't see how he could be listed as "Released 1865". I'm pretty sure it's just an error Henderson made.

http://onetuberadio.com/2014/07/17/the-s...egligence/

http://www.elmiraprisoncamp.com/the-grea...ain-wreck/

Here are a couple more links. Many of the 833 Confederate POWs had been captured at Cold Harbor .