Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-28

shot III an attempt to escape One was
tine last prisoners On the Island were we're
sna 1 fhe oF 1ace Of the
Abandoned as military post.
q The most striking memento Of those
sad days is the little aas : cemetery enc on the
shore boaes haSe
removed, and doubtless many others
would oe tanen away if friends and rela-
tives know the resting pace OF me MISE ;st
of the prisoners buried at Johnson's
! Island has never been published. and,
for The purpose e OF dsad nonrafes tha
following. compiled from the report OF
the commissioning OF prisoners, Is
herewith subjon ,,S r7n Senera OF b,t Inc
i.far5 as possible the full names have been
| chtained and are now for the first time
made public.
marked b. rough, wooden headstones
cut out and Inscriptions carved upon
them with jack-kniyes BY comrad les OF
the namp rank birth. and date OF death;
in fact, being the chief authority from
short time ago. however, party Of
Georgia Journalists visited the little, GEM.
etery, noted that the wooden head
! stones were fast going to decay, and,
in order to rescue from Oblivion the
identity Of their soldier dead. the news
papermen. upon their return nome,
/ South enough money to defray the ex-
! pense Of erecting marble tombstone az
! the head of each grave. only few OF
] the original wooden headboards are now
/ in existence, and these are kept as souye-
| Mrs of the love that the soldiers pore tor
! their dead friends,
/ J. r. Crusgs, colonel Eighty-tifth Viz
/ Einia
s 3. NJ. Tuggle, captain Thirty-fifth Geor-
si q. t. 3. upchurch, captain Fitty-hfth
North Carolina Infantry:
| p. Pedan, second lieutenant Hamil-
lo loci i' Barnett lieutenant-colonel Ninth
Battalion, Louisiana Cavalry.
William J. Hudson. lieutenant Second
North Carolina MANN nd1lt''in First Alabama
c9 = ". Mullins, lieutenant First Mis-
si3 ~ B. Hansen, First Georgia Infantry.
II. D. Stephenson, captain Fifteenth Ar
kansas Infantry, CT,
see Infantry.
J. D. Caraway.
G. 3. jackson, Virginia.
J: Huffstettlertf nf Lieutenant ntTT nns' 0A'-
North Carolina Infantry
w. P. Harden, lieutenant Nortn Caro-
~, j. 81 Dotson. lieutenant Tenth Tennes-
Sd 5. ! 3. Ksellar, private Second Tonnes
s G. letter. Alabama Infantry.
G. w. Gillespie, captain North Carolina
! Cavalry.
". ". Veasey, lieutenant Tenth Ken
'u J. W. Gregory captain Ninth Virginia
Ah Pater Cole. private Sixtieth Virginia
William Johnson, private Poindexter's
| Missouri Cavalry.
Daniel Merrin, Poindexter's Missouri
7 y. Collier, lieutenant Eighteenth
John NJ. Kean, captain Twelfth Louis
| lana Artillery, ,+,;, Third Mic.
L. w. McWhirter, caplalh lHliu MIS-
/ sissippi Infantry.
John Dow PULASKI, y
| r, Hodges Memphis, Tenn.
=. Gibson, lieutenant Eleventh Arkan-
s' b Chrictian 12sth Virginia Infantry.
| T. Raisins Forty-sixth Virginia lnfan-
| Samuel Fox, colonel!
! J. Ashbury. Kentucky.
| 7 Reeves First Georgia Cavalry.
J. A. Mcbride lieutenant sixtieth Ten
S. r: Graham, first lieutenant Third
S. ". Henry, captain Nineteenth Ten
- M. Orr. lieutenant Sixty-second
| North Carolina Infantry
| Mark Bacon, captain Sixtteth Iennes-
see Infantry
! J. B. Hardy, captain Fifteenth Arkansas
Infantry.
Hugh Cobhle, private Fifth Kentucky;
J. B. Cash, lieutenant Slxty-secono
| North Carolina Infantry.
i w. johnson, captain Green's r. Mis-
souri, S. G.'s:. ,7,.+, coo..,,
J: Y. D. King, captain Ninth Georgia
M. r. Handy, citizen, Hopkins county.
3. Morrison, private Eighth Alabama
Charles H. Matlock, colonel Fourth Mis-
". y. Davis. private Thirty-ffth Mis-
'' ~. N. swift, lieutenant Thirty-fourth
| Georgia Infantry.
'" J. 3. Conaway, private Nineteenth vir-
ginia Cavalry
]. Middebrooks. captain Fortieth Geor-
J. 3. Hazard, captain Twenty-fourth
| Alabama Infantry.
J. P. Vance, captain bells r., Arkan-
D. 81. Mckay. lieutenant Forty-sixth
| Alabama Infantry.
| John r. Jackson. captain Ihlrty-e1ghth
| Alabama Infantry.
| H. B. Dawson, lieutenant seventeenth
| Georgia Infantry
| D. D. Johnson, lieutenant Forty-eighth
| Tennessee Infantry.
J. B. Hardy, captain Fifth Arkansas
/ Infantry.
| W. T. Skidmore, lieutenant Fourth Ala
| bama Cavalry.
| M. D. Ar1nfield. captain EleVenth Nortn
| Carolina Infantry.
%. w Lewis captain Ninth Battalion
| Louisiana Cavalry.
| + n. Williams, lieutenant Cor captain)
| Sixth Mississippi Infantry.
J. r. Ligon, lieutenant Fifty-third Vir-
| GINA Infantry Cor Twenty-third Arkan-
=. G. w. Coleman, lieutenant Seventh
| Mississippi Artillery
! J. E. Threadgill, lieutenant Twelfth
| Arkansas Infantry.
J. G. Shuler, captain Fifth Florida In
| fantry. ..,
/ 3. J. Blount, lieutenant Flfty-hfth
/ North Carolina Infantry.
! J. D. Arlington. lieutenant Ihlrty-so-
| cond North Carolina infantry
| Joseph LaWske, lieutenant Eighteenth
Mississippi Cavalry.
John G. Holt, lieutenant Sixty-frst
Tennessee Infantry.
Samuel Chormley. Blount county, Ten
J. W. Moore, lieutenant Twenty-fifth
| Alabama Infantry.
D. o. Scott second lieutenant Third
/ Missouri Cavalry.
William Peel, lieutenant Eleventh Mis-
/ e;ec o. *