William was one of the many children of Robert Warden and Elizabeth "Betsy" [Pilcher] Warden of Surry Co., NC; Illinois; and Lincoln Co., TN.
He was a Private, Company A, 41st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Company A primarily included men of Lincoln County, Tennessee (William's brother John, my third-great-grandfather, was also a member, as was Berry Sullivan, another of my "third-greats").
On 16 February 1862, Company A was among those surrendered at Fort Donelson, near Dover, TN. From there, the enlisted men were sent to Indiana's Camp Morton, a Prisoner of War camp near Indianapolis.
A fellow prisoner described the widespread illness, that they "suffered twenty days of unparalleled exposure and hardships before and after their capture..."
Here William died as a POW before he could be transferred to a Federal prison camp. His brother John suffered about seven months' imprisonment here; by December 1863, however, he was back in Lincoln Co., TN.
William's death is listed as 2 March 1862; the National Archives roster mistakenly lists his burial place as Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis. After over a century, a monument honoring these POWs was dedicated (17 October 1998) in Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, IN.
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Among John's siblings on Find-a-Grave are:
• The aforementioned John W. Warden
• Elizabeth Darinda (Warden) McAfee
• Malinda Jane (Warden) Isom
• Daniel Warden
• Mary Emeline "Emily" (Warden) Steelman
• William R. Warden
He was a Private, Company A, 41st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Company A primarily included men of Lincoln County, Tennessee (William's brother John, my third-great-grandfather, was also a member, as was Berry Sullivan, another of my "third-greats").
On 16 February 1862, Company A was among those surrendered at Fort Donelson, near Dover, TN. From there, the enlisted men were sent to Indiana's Camp Morton, a Prisoner of War camp near Indianapolis.
A fellow prisoner described the widespread illness, that they "suffered twenty days of unparalleled exposure and hardships before and after their capture..."
Here William died as a POW before he could be transferred to a Federal prison camp. His brother John suffered about seven months' imprisonment here; by December 1863, however, he was back in Lincoln Co., TN.
William's death is listed as 2 March 1862; the National Archives roster mistakenly lists his burial place as Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis. After over a century, a monument honoring these POWs was dedicated (17 October 1998) in Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, IN.
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Among John's siblings on Find-a-Grave are:
• The aforementioned John W. Warden
• Elizabeth Darinda (Warden) McAfee
• Malinda Jane (Warden) Isom
• Daniel Warden
• Mary Emeline "Emily" (Warden) Steelman
• William R. Warden
William was one of the many children of Robert Warden and Elizabeth "Betsy" [Pilcher] Warden of Surry Co., NC; Illinois; and Lincoln Co., TN.
He was a Private, Company A, 41st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Company A primarily included men of Lincoln County, Tennessee (William's brother John, my third-great-grandfather, was also a member, as was Berry Sullivan, another of my "third-greats").
On 16 February 1862, Company A was among those surrendered at Fort Donelson, near Dover, TN. From there, the enlisted men were sent to Indiana's Camp Morton, a Prisoner of War camp near Indianapolis.
A fellow prisoner described the widespread illness, that they "suffered twenty days of unparalleled exposure and hardships before and after their capture..."
Here William died as a POW before he could be transferred to a Federal prison camp. His brother John suffered about seven months' imprisonment here; by December 1863, however, he was back in Lincoln Co., TN.
William's death is listed as 2 March 1862; the National Archives roster mistakenly lists his burial place as Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis. After over a century, a monument honoring these POWs was dedicated (17 October 1998) in Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, IN.
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Among John's siblings on Find-a-Grave are:
• The aforementioned John W. Warden
• Elizabeth Darinda (Warden) McAfee
• Malinda Jane (Warden) Isom
• Daniel Warden
• Mary Emeline "Emily" (Warden) Steelman
• William R. Warden
He was a Private, Company A, 41st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Company A primarily included men of Lincoln County, Tennessee (William's brother John, my third-great-grandfather, was also a member, as was Berry Sullivan, another of my "third-greats").
On 16 February 1862, Company A was among those surrendered at Fort Donelson, near Dover, TN. From there, the enlisted men were sent to Indiana's Camp Morton, a Prisoner of War camp near Indianapolis.
A fellow prisoner described the widespread illness, that they "suffered twenty days of unparalleled exposure and hardships before and after their capture..."
Here William died as a POW before he could be transferred to a Federal prison camp. His brother John suffered about seven months' imprisonment here; by December 1863, however, he was back in Lincoln Co., TN.
William's death is listed as 2 March 1862; the National Archives roster mistakenly lists his burial place as Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis. After over a century, a monument honoring these POWs was dedicated (17 October 1998) in Greenbush Cemetery, Lafayette, IN.
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Among John's siblings on Find-a-Grave are:
• The aforementioned John W. Warden
• Elizabeth Darinda (Warden) McAfee
• Malinda Jane (Warden) Isom
• Daniel Warden
• Mary Emeline "Emily" (Warden) Steelman
• William R. Warden
Gravesite Details
Confederate soldier captured at the surrender of Fort Donelson, Tennessee, on February 16, 1862. He died as a Prisoner of War at Lafayette en route to a Federal Prisoner of War camp.
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