Hugh Simmons
Fort Delaware and Finns Point National Cemetery
Sun Jul 29 15:53:02 2001


You wrote: >>>Jacob W. Vail: Company E, 5th Alabama Infantry, Captured at Gettysburg 1863, Died of "caries" a bone disease probably related to a fracture in prison at Fort Delaware, Delaware [on] December 16, 1863<<<

As a member of the Board of Directors of the Fort Delaware Society, I have a personal interest in learning all that I can about the men who were incarcerated there and especially those who lost their lives there. Most of the dead were interred at what is now Finns Point National Cemetery across the Delaware River in Salem County, New Jersey. Our Society published a list of the dead ["They Died at Fort Delaware", June 1997] which includes about 500 more names than are presented on the bronze memorial plates of the Confederate monument at Finns Point. Checking the United States War Department 1912 listing [the source of the names on the monument] for Finns Point, I find that Private J. W. Vail, Company E, 5th Alabama Infantry is listed as among the Confederate dead buried and named on the monument at Finns Point.

Do you have this man's Compiled Military Service Record and can you share any other personal information about him and his family?

Take a look at our website and scroll down near the bottom of the first page for a linkage to the Finns Point National Cemetery webpages that I created and maintain. The cemetery and the Confederate burial plot are very well kept.

http://www.del.net/org/fort


I am also interested in the surname FUNDERBURKE: Private Jesse G. FUNDERBURKE, Company B [Bienville Parish, Louisiana], 12th Louisiana Infantry is buried in the Confederate plot at Philadelphia National Cemetery. Captured in Mississippi in the aftermath of the Battle of Baker's Creek [Champion Hill on May 16, 1863] and transported to Fort Delaware, Jesse died of disease at the Upland Army General Hospital in Chester, Pennsylvania on 3 August 1863.

Is Jesse possibly related to your ancestor Mary FUNDERBURKE?