Please help decipher this Fold3 record

[WhistlingDixie]

Looks to me like it may say Captured in Burkesville Apr 6, 1865? Released June 9, 1865.. I'm having a time with this one

Thanks in advance!

https://www.fold3.com/image/119569756

 

[DaveBrt]

Looks to me like it may say Captured in Burkesville Apr 6, 1865? Released June 9, 1865.. I'm having a time with this one

Thanks in advance!

https://www.fold3.com/image/119569756

Yes, I believe you are reading it correctly.

 

[Ole Miss]

I also believe you have it correct!
Regards
David

 

[SJU5]

Looks to me like it may say Captured in Burkesville Apr 6, 1865? Released June 9, 1865.. I'm having a time with this one

Thanks in advance!

https://www.fold3.com/image/119569756

What's his name? I will look up his records in the Civil War Database

 

[ealexander1865]

Yeah, it definitely says Burkesville, as in the Burkeville Junction of the South Side Railroad and Richmond & Danville Railroad. That said, I've found many prisoner records from the last battles around Petersburg and the Appomattox campaign that typically only list a general area, nearest notable location, or the location first processed as a prisoner for the "where captured." It is probable that he might have actually been captured at Sailor's Creek.

I think the released is June 19.

 

[SJU5]

Yeah, it definitely says Burkesville, as in the Burkeville Junction of the South Side Railroad and Richmond & Danville Railroad. That said, I've found many prisoner records from the last battles around Petersburg and the Appomattox campaign that typically only list a general area, nearest notable location, or the location first processed as a prisoner for the "where captured." It is probable that he might have actually been captured at Sailor's Creek.

I think the released is June 19.

What's the soldiers name?

 

[WhistlingDixie]

What's his name? I will look up his records in the Civil War Database

His name is Erwin Simpson, or Irwin.. Fold3 lists as Erwin. Sorry for my not replying sooner, I'd forgotten I had asked for help.

 

[SJU5]

Here he is:

 

[WhistlingDixie]

fabulous!!! Thank you SO much!!!!

 

[WhistlingDixie]

What can you find for Philip Augustus Simpson, Co E, FL 6th Inf? I can barely read his records either...

 

[SJU5]

What can you find for Philip Augustus Simpson, Co E, FL 6th Inf? I can barely read his records either...

 

[SJU5]

And this is possibly Phillip's brother or cousin. Enlisted on the same day, same company and buried in the same cemetery

 

[WhistlingDixie]

Thank you VERY much.. I'll look into who William is.
How do you find this information, please? Would be great to look these things up myself.

 

[WhistlingDixie]

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He lived to be 79?... good long deserving life

 

[WhistlingDixie]

Thank you VERY much.. I'll look into who William is.
How do you find this information, please? Would be great to look these things up myself.

William Daniel was Erwin's son.. can't claim cousins, only honor him.

 

[SJU5]

Thank you VERY much.. I'll look into who William is.
How do you find this information, please? Would be great to look these things up myself.

I have a subscription to the Civil War Historical Database System.

 

[WhistlingDixie]

I have a subscription to the Civil War Historical Database System.

I need that.. how do I go about getting a sub

 

[SJU5]

William Daniel was Erwin's son.. can't claim cousins, only honor him.

Erwin must have been pretty old when he enlisted if his son was 19 in 1862 and Erwin enlisted in 1863.

 

[WhistlingDixie]

William Daniel Simpson was born in Va? Makes no sense.. Ancestry doesn't let me add him to Irwin.. needs more investigation. You've given me a puzzle.

 

[SJU5]

William Daniel Simpson was born in Va? Makes no sense.. Ancestry doesn't let me add him to Irwin.. needs more investigation. You've given me a puzzle.

these things many times are PUZZLING !!!