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Thanks once again for the Info.
It was the Joseph Gevedon that was part of Jack May's regiment that was of interest to me.
There was no further muster cards on him because he died May 21, 1862, reportedly of disease, probably measles.
He is buried in the family cemetery.
I was just wondering about the circumstances.

One story had him being captured and transported to the transitional prison at Louisville where he died.
However, without records stating such I am of the opinion that he died while in his own unit or was sent home to die.

General Marshall's adjutant Edward Guerrant was appalled at the conditions he found in ther camp near Pound Gap and on Feb. 23 wrote in his diary:

Death is nothing here, where so many die or are liable to – at any moment. Suffering is disregarded where all are compelled to undergo a share. No one can imagine the wretchedness & misery to which the poor sick soldier is often exposed – in transportation & in many of the hospitals - - It seems to me I would rather die in a descent – comfortable house than to live in one of those miserable abodes of the sick. I have seen the sick, the dying & and the dead all stretched upon their scanty straw pallets in the same room. To die in such a place with no familiar face to look upon – no friendly ear to whisper a last request – no loving hand to close our dying eyes & stretch us for the grave – O! this thought is insupportable! But thus the sick soldier died.

As for dying in prison camp I am guessing that unless family members went to get his body, he would not have been shipped home from Louisville.

Thanks again!

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Two 5th Ky. Inf. regiments