I need help with Andersonville!!!!!!?

Question

Ok so my 3x great grandfather was a spy in the Union Army. He was captured and sent to Andersonville. He then escaped and walked all the way back to Ohio. His last name was Crowe, and his son was Louis Crowe. However, I've searched Andersonville records and there was nothing about an Ohio guy named Crowe in Andersonville. I've searched the whole internet, I need help!!!!

Answer 1

Jackson, Van Wert Co., OH. 1880

Alexander Crow 38 farmer OH. Parents OH

Rosanna 45 OH, OH, OH

John 18 OH

Garner 15 OH

Franklin 13 OH

Louis 10 OH

Daniel 8

James 6

Ireane 4

Emmanuel 1

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Jackson, Van Wert Co., OH. 1900

Alexander Crow 58, born July 1841 OH. Married 38 years, father born PA. Mother OH, farmer

Rosanna 65, born Jan. 1835 OH. 10 children, 8 living

Emanuel N. 21, born April 1879 OH, single

Adam B. 18, born March 1882 OH

Irenia E. Thomas 24, born Aug. 1875 OH, married 5 years, 3 children

Eugene D. Thomas 3, born Oct. 1896 OH. Parents OH grandson

Alta M. Thomas 1, born July 1898 OH

Alexander E. Thomas 5/12, born Dec. 1899 OH.

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Farm Mandale Lane? Washington, Paulding Co., OH. 1920

Alexander E. Crow 78, OH, PA. OH

Mary B. 71 OH, wife

Emanuel N. 39 OH, Divorced

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Amanda Twp. Allen Co., OH 1910

Lewis M. Crowe 40 OH married 12 years, parents born OH, laborer

Martha E. 39, no children, OH, parents OH

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Warrensville, Cuyahoga Co., OH. 1910

Evan Richard 69 England, immigrated 1858, store keeper, grocery store

Martha 66 married once 48 years, 2 children, OH, MA, VT

Louis E. Crowe 21 single, born OH, father England, mother OH, optical co. grandson

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Lewis M Crow

Find a Grave

Birth: 1870

Death: 1942

Lewis M Crow and wife Martha Ellen Shobe Crow Family links: Spouse: Martha Ellen Shobe Crow (1871 - 1962)*

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Louis E Crowe

Find a Grave

Birth: Sep. 9, 1888

Death: May 29, 1930

Cook, Co A 333rd AINF, 83rd Division WWIGrandson of Evan and Martha Richards, brother of Carl, Mabel, Clair, Evan Beal. Son of Edward J and Emma Crowe Beal.

Burial:Harvard Grove Cemetery ClevelandCuyahoga CountyOhio, USAPlot: Section 11, lot 27 W 1/2, grave 2w

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Andersonville Prison Records last name Crowe

Side Union

Unit Name 31 Illinois Infantry

Regiment 31

State Illinois

Function Infantry

Company H

Rank Private

Type Held at Andersonville and survived

Capture Date Unknown

Capture Site Unknown

Alternate Name None

Remarks EXCHANGED ATLANTA, GA SEPTEMBER 17, 1864

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/ CROWE, JOHN/

Side Union

Unit Name 17 Connecticut Infantry

Regiment 17

State Connecticut

Function Infantry

Company A

Rank Sergeant

Type Held at Andersonville and survived

Capture Date 02/04/1865

Capture Site St. Augustine, Fl

Alternate Name None

Remarks None

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FORT MCHENRY PRISON RECORD SEARCH RESULTS

Displaying records 1 to 12 of 12

No. Prisoner's Name Type

1 Crow, J. Political Prisoner

2 Crow, J.H. Prisoner of War

3 Crow, T. Prisoner of War

4 Crow, Thomas H. Political Prisoner

5 Crow, ----- Prisoner of War

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ANDERSONVILLE PRISON RECORD SEARCH RESULTS

Displaying records 1 to 2 of 2

No. Prisoner's Name Side Unit

1 Beales, Edward N. U 85 New York Infantry

2 Beals, Edward U 19 Massachusetts Infantry

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Here are some possibilities for you to check out. I have included prisoners from other states named Crowe or Crow. My great grandfather’s brother died at Andersonville. He was from PA but enlisted in Ohio. His name was misspelled and it took me some time to find his records. I also included the Edward Beals I found, assuming that he was one of the Louis Crowe’s step fathers.

Answer 2

If you are looking for just the name Crowe as it is spelled then you will miss finding allot of records. There is the spelling Crow, miss transcriptions handwriting to be Crewe, Crew, Crawe, Craw plus more versions.



Just back up and find son Louis/Lewis (can be spelled both ways in many records), was he born before or after the war? What county?

What county was family living when enlisted? Unit enlisted in?

The best place to find father's first name is Louis/Lewis's vital records, Birth and death. Also the U.S. Federal census. If son born before 1860 or father lived to 1870 with son young enough to still be in his household will greatly add to your finding other records.



I find a Jacob Crow of the 20th OH Inf Company I as being at Andersonville, captured July 1864 in Atlanta GA.



His Civil War Record shows enlisted Feb 1862, Company I 20th OH

died of disease April 1865 while still with same unit in Baltimore MD.



This does not match your information but unless you have documented proof of your version, this could be your ancestor. Now if

son was born after April 1865 or maybe Jan 1870 then this is not your ancestor.

You have to have other records to "claim" an ancestor than a same name in a specific record your are searching for.



By the way there are 2 men named Crew from OH in Andersonville too.

Answer 3

It is possible to find records, but they will most likely be in local newspapers of the time. Andersonville records will be sparse.



A Union soldier surviving Andersonville was rare. The local town's people in Ohio would note it, and he would be celebrated.





Look for military records--especially pension records. Pin point where he was living, the safest way would be to gather documents on his son Louis. Then contact local genealogical or historical societies to see if you can find access to newspaper accounts. Many spies started as military officers and pretty much took off their uniforms. Usually they wouldn't have survived if caught. Perhaps he was actually a scout.



I've got a Confederate Prison survivor on my family line and he's all over Waupaca, Wisconsin historical records.



Good luck. It will be an interesting study, I assure you.



IMPORTANT EDIT: Check out this one. George F. Crowe: http://books.google.com/books?id=xZEfLPHZyMAC&pg=PA270&dq=andersonville+prison+%2BCrowe&as_brr=4#v=onepage&q=andersonville%20prison%20%2BCrowe&f=false



Don't stop there. http://www.books.google.com is amazing....

Answer 4

You might check out this site--http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/ANDERSONVILLE/PRISON.html.

One of the paragraphs reads: "Andersonville prison ceased to exist in May 1865. Some former prisoners remained in Federal service, but most returned to the civilian occupations they had before the war. During July and August 1865, Clara Barton, a detachment of laborers and soldiers, and a former prisoner named Dorence Atwater, came to Andersonville cemetery to identify and mark the graves of the Union dead. As a prisoner, Atwater was assigned to record the names of the deceased Union soldiers for the Confederates. Fearing loss of the death record at war's end, Atwater made his own copy in hopes of notifying the relatives of some 12,000 dead interred at Andersonville. Thanks to his list and the Confederate records confiscated at the end of the war, only 460 of the Andersonville graves had to be marked "unknown U. S. soldier."



Other notes from the above site: The first prisoners were brought to Andersonville in February 1864. During the next few months approximately 400 more arrived each day until, by the end of June, some 26,000 men were confined in a prison area originally intended to hold 10,000. The largest number held at any one time was more than 32,000-about the population of present-day Sumter County-in August 1864. On July 9, 1864, Sgt. David Kennedy of the 9th Ohio Cavalry wrote in his diary: "Wuld that I was an artist and had the material to paint this camp and all its horors or the tongue of some eloquent Statesman and had the privleage of expresing my mind to our hon. rulers at Washington, I should gloery to decribe this hell on Earth where it takes 7 of its ocupiants to make a Shadow." (NOTE: spelling errors are his own).

Of the 54,000 who were held, there are only 34,000 records that survived the war.



At http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/prisoners.htm, I typed in the last name CROWE and got this: "Sorry, no records were found matching your search criteria."



(If he escaped and returned to Ohio, that is why you won't find a record of him at Andersonville. This Auschwitz of the American Civil War kept records of only those 13,000 who died there).



The 1860 census shows a JOHN D. CROWE, b. 1820 in Maryland:

1860 United States Federal Census

Name: John D Crowe

Age in 1860: 40

Birth Year: abt 1820

Birthplace: Maryland

Home in 1860: Jefferson, Wells, Indiana

Gender: Male

Post Office: Bluffton

Household Members: Name Age

John D Crowe 40 (occupation shown as FARMER)

Barbary Crowe 29

Robert Crowe 13

Elizabeth Crowe 12

Byron Crowe 11

Theodore Crowe 9

Mary Crowe 7

LEWIS Crowe 5 (b. Ohio in 1855)

Maria J Crowe 4

William J Crowe 2

John Crowe 1

(Would this be the right family?? You just did NOT announce you were a spy back then--or even now, for that matter--especially to a government worker).



(Author of the first site, Kevin Frye, shows his mailing address at the end of this page--http://www.angelfire.com/ga3/ANDERSONVILLE/otherservices.html-- if you want to write to him and ask for his help.)