STINSON, L.,
(Private, Company “A” 1st Battalion Alabama Artillery)
Pvt Stinson was captured at Fort Morgan, Alabama on August 23, 1864. He was initially transferred to Fort Columbus, N.Y.H. (New York Harbor) and later sent to Elmira Military Prison in Elmira, New York on Dec 4, 1864. He died two months later, on February 11, 1865, just 5 months before the war's end resulted in the release of prisoners at Elmira Prison. He is buried in Plot Number 2058 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
According to The Alabama Civil War Service Database, Pvt Lee Stinson died of dysentery. Oral family history suggests he died from measles. It is entirely possible he was suffering from both at the time of his death, as these diseases were rampant among the prisoners there.
Many family stories exists that tell of his wife, Nancy, making the trip from Butler County Alabama down to Fort Morgan on horseback to visit him before he was "sent off" to the POW camp. It is not clear if this was before the troops were captured or after. A son, Pvt John Andrew Cooper Stinson also served and was captured at Ft. Morgan and sent to the same prison in New York. John C. was released in July of 1865 and returned home to Alabama where he lived until his death in August 1910.
The prison camp existed from Summer 1864 until the end of the war. During this time, approximately 12,000 Confederate prisoners were housed there and about 3,000 men died there. Deceased soldiers were placed in coffins and loaded onto a buckboard wagon. They were taken approximately 1.5 miles to the cemetary where a long trench was dug and the coffins placed side by side in it.
At the time of the Confederate burials, John Jones, an escaped slave who'd found freedom in Elmira was the sexton of Woodlawn Cemetary. He kept a meticulous record of each Confederate burial so that when, in 1907, the federal government was authorized to erect a small marble headstone at each grave, it was possible to inscribe each with the soldier's name, company regiment and grave number. Many of our families owe a huge debt to this man. Without his efforts and careful record keeping, the the final resting place of many of our ancestors could have been lost to the ages.
NOTE: For a better quality pic of this headstone, please refer to memorial #18577317. That is a duplicate memorial but the picture quality is much better and more legible. -LS
(Private, Company “A” 1st Battalion Alabama Artillery)
Pvt Stinson was captured at Fort Morgan, Alabama on August 23, 1864. He was initially transferred to Fort Columbus, N.Y.H. (New York Harbor) and later sent to Elmira Military Prison in Elmira, New York on Dec 4, 1864. He died two months later, on February 11, 1865, just 5 months before the war's end resulted in the release of prisoners at Elmira Prison. He is buried in Plot Number 2058 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
According to The Alabama Civil War Service Database, Pvt Lee Stinson died of dysentery. Oral family history suggests he died from measles. It is entirely possible he was suffering from both at the time of his death, as these diseases were rampant among the prisoners there.
Many family stories exists that tell of his wife, Nancy, making the trip from Butler County Alabama down to Fort Morgan on horseback to visit him before he was "sent off" to the POW camp. It is not clear if this was before the troops were captured or after. A son, Pvt John Andrew Cooper Stinson also served and was captured at Ft. Morgan and sent to the same prison in New York. John C. was released in July of 1865 and returned home to Alabama where he lived until his death in August 1910.
The prison camp existed from Summer 1864 until the end of the war. During this time, approximately 12,000 Confederate prisoners were housed there and about 3,000 men died there. Deceased soldiers were placed in coffins and loaded onto a buckboard wagon. They were taken approximately 1.5 miles to the cemetary where a long trench was dug and the coffins placed side by side in it.
At the time of the Confederate burials, John Jones, an escaped slave who'd found freedom in Elmira was the sexton of Woodlawn Cemetary. He kept a meticulous record of each Confederate burial so that when, in 1907, the federal government was authorized to erect a small marble headstone at each grave, it was possible to inscribe each with the soldier's name, company regiment and grave number. Many of our families owe a huge debt to this man. Without his efforts and careful record keeping, the the final resting place of many of our ancestors could have been lost to the ages.
NOTE: For a better quality pic of this headstone, please refer to memorial #18577317. That is a duplicate memorial but the picture quality is much better and more legible. -LS
STINSON, L.,
(Private, Company “A” 1st Battalion Alabama Artillery)
Pvt Stinson was captured at Fort Morgan, Alabama on August 23, 1864. He was initially transferred to Fort Columbus, N.Y.H. (New York Harbor) and later sent to Elmira Military Prison in Elmira, New York on Dec 4, 1864. He died two months later, on February 11, 1865, just 5 months before the war's end resulted in the release of prisoners at Elmira Prison. He is buried in Plot Number 2058 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
According to The Alabama Civil War Service Database, Pvt Lee Stinson died of dysentery. Oral family history suggests he died from measles. It is entirely possible he was suffering from both at the time of his death, as these diseases were rampant among the prisoners there.
Many family stories exists that tell of his wife, Nancy, making the trip from Butler County Alabama down to Fort Morgan on horseback to visit him before he was "sent off" to the POW camp. It is not clear if this was before the troops were captured or after. A son, Pvt John Andrew Cooper Stinson also served and was captured at Ft. Morgan and sent to the same prison in New York. John C. was released in July of 1865 and returned home to Alabama where he lived until his death in August 1910.
The prison camp existed from Summer 1864 until the end of the war. During this time, approximately 12,000 Confederate prisoners were housed there and about 3,000 men died there. Deceased soldiers were placed in coffins and loaded onto a buckboard wagon. They were taken approximately 1.5 miles to the cemetary where a long trench was dug and the coffins placed side by side in it.
At the time of the Confederate burials, John Jones, an escaped slave who'd found freedom in Elmira was the sexton of Woodlawn Cemetary. He kept a meticulous record of each Confederate burial so that when, in 1907, the federal government was authorized to erect a small marble headstone at each grave, it was possible to inscribe each with the soldier's name, company regiment and grave number. Many of our families owe a huge debt to this man. Without his efforts and careful record keeping, the the final resting place of many of our ancestors could have been lost to the ages.
NOTE: For a better quality pic of this headstone, please refer to memorial #18577317. That is a duplicate memorial but the picture quality is much better and more legible. -LS
(Private, Company “A” 1st Battalion Alabama Artillery)
Pvt Stinson was captured at Fort Morgan, Alabama on August 23, 1864. He was initially transferred to Fort Columbus, N.Y.H. (New York Harbor) and later sent to Elmira Military Prison in Elmira, New York on Dec 4, 1864. He died two months later, on February 11, 1865, just 5 months before the war's end resulted in the release of prisoners at Elmira Prison. He is buried in Plot Number 2058 at Woodlawn National Cemetery.
According to The Alabama Civil War Service Database, Pvt Lee Stinson died of dysentery. Oral family history suggests he died from measles. It is entirely possible he was suffering from both at the time of his death, as these diseases were rampant among the prisoners there.
Many family stories exists that tell of his wife, Nancy, making the trip from Butler County Alabama down to Fort Morgan on horseback to visit him before he was "sent off" to the POW camp. It is not clear if this was before the troops were captured or after. A son, Pvt John Andrew Cooper Stinson also served and was captured at Ft. Morgan and sent to the same prison in New York. John C. was released in July of 1865 and returned home to Alabama where he lived until his death in August 1910.
The prison camp existed from Summer 1864 until the end of the war. During this time, approximately 12,000 Confederate prisoners were housed there and about 3,000 men died there. Deceased soldiers were placed in coffins and loaded onto a buckboard wagon. They were taken approximately 1.5 miles to the cemetary where a long trench was dug and the coffins placed side by side in it.
At the time of the Confederate burials, John Jones, an escaped slave who'd found freedom in Elmira was the sexton of Woodlawn Cemetary. He kept a meticulous record of each Confederate burial so that when, in 1907, the federal government was authorized to erect a small marble headstone at each grave, it was possible to inscribe each with the soldier's name, company regiment and grave number. Many of our families owe a huge debt to this man. Without his efforts and careful record keeping, the the final resting place of many of our ancestors could have been lost to the ages.
NOTE: For a better quality pic of this headstone, please refer to memorial #18577317. That is a duplicate memorial but the picture quality is much better and more legible. -LS
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