Quinn Elliott
Isham D. Crews
Sat Feb 10 12:26:40 2001



Thanks for a wonderful site. I am searching for information on my Great Grandfather, Private Isham D. Crews. Of the scant official information I have on him is as follows: Mustered in Montgomery September 1861 in Captain Henry W. Laird's Gulf Rangers, Alabama Volunteers for 12 months. 48 years old and was a flag bearer. From "Roll of Prisoners of War" captured at Island No. 10 7 April 1862, imprisoned at Camp Randall - Madison, Wisconsin 20 April 1862, died there 25 MAY 1862. Register of Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Confederate states killed in battle or died of wounds or disease listed I. D. Cruse Co E 50th Regiment Alabama as died 23 May 1862 in prison Madison, Wisconsin. Ironically, Isham D. Crews also appears on "Roll of Prisoners of War" at Camp Douglas, Illinois dated August 1, 1862, the blank for "Roll dated" has "not dated" written it in, states captured at Island No 10 April 8, 1862/died. This was 3 months after (as far as is known he died ). There is a marker for him at Madison, Wisconsin, Forest Hill Cemetery, where 139 Confederate soldiers (Prisioners of War) are resting along with Mrs. Alice Waterman who cared for the graves following the war. As reported to the Wisconsin State Historical Society by James Stuart in October 1893 the names of the 139 of which 105 were from the First Regiment Alabama Volunteers, Isham Crew(s) Company D, May 26 is listed as #5 on the list. The cemetery records have him listed in Tier 4, plot 110 as Isham M. Crews, Co. D. 1 Ala. Tenn. Miss. Reg. CSA. Confusion, what is the relationship between First Regiment Alabama Volunteers and the 1 Alabama, Tenn, Miss. Regiment?






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