Rock Island, Illinois
Confederate POW Camp
and Cemetery
Haywood Co. Men Known to be buried at
Rock Island, IL
62nd Regiment, POWs, dead (full list)
62nd Regiment ~~ Haywood Co. Men, dead
Total Deaths by Company and County
Letter from Camp Douglas ~~~ History
Official Records of the "War of
Rebellion"
National Battlefields and Monuments Marker
Looking East
United Daughters of the Confederacy Monument
Inscription on the UDC Monument
J T Green--Stewart's Cavalry, Tennessee
Looking South
Fitting comment by General Stonewall Jackson
Deaths of Prisoners of War
from the 62nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment,
Confederate States of America
Camp Douglas Prisoner of War Camp
Chicago, Illinois
The 62nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment was surrendered by their commanding officer on 10 September 1863 at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, after which 442 soldiers of that regiment were transferred to Camp Douglas. Forty- four percent of them would die there on Union soil. Their bodies were placed in a mass grave known as The Confederate Mound. The following roster of those who gave The Last Full Measure in service of the country, is submitted by Marshall Styles marshallstyles@yahoo.com / mstyles1947@yahoo.com, in honor of those who never came home. |
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Deaths of Haywood Co. Men
from the 62nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment,
Confederate States of America
Camp Douglas Prisoner of War Camp
Chicago, Illinois
Last Name | First Name | Date Died |
Rank | Company |
County |
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Allen | William | 1865-5-04 | Private | E | Haywood |
Allison | James C. | 1864-1-26 | Private | E | Haywood |
Benjamin | William | 1864-6-25 | Private | A | Haywood |
Brown | Alney L. | 1864-2-15 | Sergeant Major | C | Haywood |
Cabe | Thomas J. | 1865-3-11 | Corporal | C | Haywood |
Caldwell | Reuben A. | 1864-9-15 | Sergeant | C | Haywood |
Dotson | John | 1865-4-24 | Private | A | Haywood |
Dotson | Thaddeus | 1864-8-9 | Private | A | Haywood |
Dunn | Joseph | 1865-1-21 | Private | E | Haywood |
Ferguson | Robert P. | 1864-9-15 | Private | A | Haywood |
Fincher | John E. | 1864-5-12 | Private | C | Haywood |
Fort | H. F. | 1864-3-15 | Private | A | Haywood |
Francis | John Noah | 1864-12-30 | Private | I | Haywood |
Franklin | Charner | 1865-3-10 | Private | A | Haywood |
Garten | William H. | 1864-5-23 | Private | I | Haywood |
Hannah | Harvey | 1864-10-12 | Private | A | Haywood |
Heatherly | Solomon W. | 1864-2-6 | Private | E | Haywood |
Henson | Archibald M. | 1864-11-18 | Private | I | Haywood |
Henson | George P. | 1864-8-29 | Private | A | Haywood |
Hice | Bayard T. | 1865-1-22 | Private | A | Haywood |
Howell | David S. | 1864-2-18 | Private | I | Haywood |
Howell | John N. | 1864-8-18 | Private | A | Haywood |
Inman | Daniel L. | 1864-12-25 | Private | I | Haywood |
Inman | Joseph A. | 1864-4-16 | Private | I | Haywood |
Justice | William M. | 1865-5-3 | Private | A | Haywood |
Leming | James H. | 1864-12-10 | Private | C | Haywood |
Leming | John | 1865-1-30 | Private | C | Haywood |
Long | John F. | 1863-11-15 | Private | I | Haywood |
Mahaffey | Joseph S. | 1864-6-10 | Private | C | Haywood |
Mason | John J. J. | 1865-2-28 | Private | A | Haywood |
Mason | Peter W. | 1863-11-29 | Private | A | Haywood |
Mauney | George L | 1864-9-01 | Private | A | Haywood |
McCall | Champion | 1865-1-11 | Private | E | Haywood |
McCall | Phidilia P. | 1864-5-14 | Private | E | Haywood |
McClure | William R. | 1864-12-18 | Private | A | Haywood |
McCracken | Doctor S. | 1864-7-24 | Private | A | Haywood |
McElroy | John F. | 1864-11-4 | Private | C | Haywood |
Mease | Robert | 1864-9-11 | Private | I | Haywood |
Messer | David | 1864-8-11 | Private | C | Haywood |
Moore | Michael | 1864-1-12 | Private | C | Haywood |
Orr | George | 1864-3-11 | Sergeant | E | Haywood |
Owens | Anderson S. | 1864-9-5 | Private | E | Haywood |
Owens | John K. | 1865-2-6 | Private | E | Haywood |
Parton | Daniel M. | 1864-8-27 | Private | A | Haywood |
Pless | Asbury | 1863-11-8 | Corporal | I | Haywood |
Plott | Hebron F. | 1864-3-13 | Private | A | Haywood |
Presnell | Andrew J. | 1863-10-20 | Private | C | Haywood |
Raines | Robert | 1864-12-17 | Private | E | Haywood |
Ratcliff | Francis M. | 1864-1-17 | Private | C | Haywood |
Ratcliff | James | 1865-1-28 | Private | C | Haywood |
Reece | James | 1864-10-14 | Private | I | Haywood |
Reeves | William A. | 1863-10-16 | Private | E | Haywood |
Rhea | John M. | 1864-8-11 | Private | A | Haywood |
Roberson | John | 1864-7-23 | Private | C | Haywood |
Rogers | Merritt C. | 1864-1-30 | Private | A | Haywood |
Rogers | William W. | 1864-10-19 | Private | A | Haywood |
Ruff | Silas P. | 1864-7-11 | Private | A | Haywood |
Scruggs | Nathaniel D. | 1864-1-20 | Private | E | Haywood |
Seay | Benjamin | 1864-9-11 | Private | A | Haywood |
Sellers | Jacob | 1863-10-16 | Private | I | Haywood |
Shelton | James L. | 1863-10-18 | Private | A | Haywood |
Shelton | Thomas W. | 1865-1-7 | Private | C | Haywood |
Shepherd | Jesse M. | 1864-6-19 | Private | E | Haywood |
Simpson | James B. | 1864-2-21 | Private | E | Haywood |
Smith | Charles L. | 1865-3-21 | Private | C | Haywood |
Snider | Leander | 1865-4-24 | Private | C | Haywood |
Stafford | William | 1864-5-15 | Private | I | Haywood |
Stamey | Frances M. | 1864-7-13 | Private | C | Haywood |
Tritt | Lafayette | 1864-5-23 | Private | I | Haywood |
Turpin | Henry A. | 1864-12-26 | Private | C | Haywood |
Wade | George W. | 1864-9-29 | Private | A | Haywood |
Wade | Joseph E. | 1863-11-11 | Private | A | Haywood |
Wilson | Joseph | 1864-10-14 | Corporal | E | Haywood |
Wooten | Lazarus S. | 1864-1-29 | Private | I | Haywood |
Total deaths by Company and County
Company A | Haywood | 23 |
Company B | Clay | 14 |
Company C | Haywood | 18 |
Company D | Macon | 19 |
Company E | Haywood | 17 |
Company F | Rutherford | 33 |
Company G | Jackson | 18 |
Company H | Henderson | 22 |
Company I | Haywood | 19 |
Company K | Transylvania | 13 |
Total Deaths | 196 | |
Total Taken Prisoner | 442 | |
Prisoner death rate | 44% |