Fort Pillow

[DHPatrick]

Originally Posted by Battalion

There is another alternative that Cimprich and Mainfort do not consider-

There were reported by the Confederates over 200 prisoners taken at Fort Pillow. These were sent either to POW camps or labor camps.

The mortality rates for such camps vary from 15 to 25%.

This means that from 30 to 50 (15-25% of 200) may have died of sickness or disease while in captivity...and not killed at Fort Pillow as they presume.

I'm not sure of what my contribution to the discussion is, but I'm driven to to say:

My GGGrandfather is one of the Confederates who didn't make it from Fort Donalson to the prison camp. He died enroute there. He is buried in a side section of a Union veteran's cemetary in St. Louis. He was Pvt Samuel B Reed, don't have any idea how he died.

We spent many many years trying to find his burial site in Mississippi. One of my relatives even paid big bucks for a professional genealogist to find him to no avail. He was very special to us.

Maybe I'm just trying to put a real person's face on statistical information.