Atwater, Dorence b. February 3, 1845 d. November 26, 1910 Civil War Union Army Soldier. He is most noted for his secretly recorded lists of the dead at the infamous Southern prisoner of war camp at Andersonville, Georgia. Enlisted as a Private in Company D, 2nd New York Volunteer Cavalry on September 1, 1861, he was 18 years old when captured at Hagerstown, Maryland in July of 1863 during the Union Army's pursuit of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia after the Battle of Gettysburg. Sent first to Belle Island in Virginia, he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Nan) Papara Protestant Church Cemetery, Papara, Windward Islands, French Polynesia
b. February 3, 1845 d. November 26, 1910