As a study and caution to what the records can clarify and what they can confuse for us looking at them 140 years later, no better example can be found than those records dealing with the death of Lt. Russell W. Legg at Fort Pulaski. Union POW records in his National Archives Compiled Service Record indicate that he died of chronic diarrhea on 7 Feb. 1865 and was buried in grave number 5, Prisoner Burying Ground, Ft. Pulaski. However, as cited in M.P. Joslyn's, Immortal Captives, Capt. Henry Dickinson, 2d Va. Cavalry, a fellow prisoner at Ft. Pulaski with Legg, noted in his diary that Legg died on 4 Feb. 1865 and was buried on 5 Feb. Joseph W. Mauck, 10th Va. Inf., a prisoner with Legg, also noted Legg's death in his diary. However, in the narrative portion of the diary he indicated that Legg died of chronic diarrhea in the prison hospital on 6 Feb. 1865; but in a list of deaths that Mauck compiled at the end of the diary he recorded that Legg died on 4 Feb. 1865 and was buried on 5 Feb. 1865. Given this range of dates, I chose to use in his service record in the 50th Virginia Infantry a date of death of 4 Feb. and burial date of 5 Feb. That may have been the source of the date that that Ancestry.com may have picked up. It was the best educated guess I could make.