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Re: 4th Virginia Infantry - Seeking a Roster/Info

Thanks again for the information. I think I have it straight about Andrew. What a sad life. His older brother (my g grandfather George Funk) talks him into joining the army with him. He then gets into a unit (Jackson's Brigade)that fights in some of the worst and bloodiest battles. He gets wounded at Culp's hill, gets back into the regiment and is captured at the "Bloody Angle" at Spotsylvania after some trench hand-to-hand combat practically in the middle of the night in a hard rain when no one could see anything. Then he gets sent to the "rat hole" at Elmira, which is awful beyond description. Then, from one of the links you gave me, and from the dates shown, he probably was one of the group of 1200 prisoners too weak to endure the horrors of the prison there, and so they send him to Washington to be inspected by the physicians. (they may have had to carry him off the train) So they determine that he should be sent to Point Lookout, MD (which supposedly had better conditions, but really didn't). But by then, he is too weak to survive, or perhaps he decided that life was no longer worth the effort (who could blame him?) So he gives up and dies. I found his name written there. This is sad beyond description. And I must say a sad commentary on those in charge of the prison there. What a shame!

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