Hugh,
Thanks for the information. Even though you couldn’t answer my question directly, I think you may have given me a better understanding of the movements my ggg-grandfather probably endured during the summer of 1862. I do have his Compiled Service Record and his widow’s Pension file, but neither makes any mention of his capture or movements prior to his death at Camp Chase in Oct of ’62. I’ve also looked into some of his fellow soldier’s pension files and none of those make any mention of their capture either. The fact that Taylor died as a result of disease due to “extreme marching and exposure” indicates to me that he had only recently arrived from the east to await exchange under the new Dix-Hill Cartel and the ordeal of travel was not easy. Knowing that some soldiers in his regiment died at Lynchburg of disease during the months of July and August, and then another at Belle Isle/Richmond in the early part of September, which is near Aiken’s Landing, tells me that your information concurs neatly with the events surrounding the probable movements of the captured 29th PA prisoners during the summer of ’62. Overcrowding at Camp Parole may have forced some of the 29ths POWS to be sent further west. I can only hope that new information may yet be found that has not come to light before because of an error in recording Taylor’s last name in records for Camp Chase. Again, thanks for your response.

Scott R. Rezer
srdsrezer@gmail.com

P.S. The Sgt. Brown you mention may actually be Thomas F. Brown who was later promoted to 1st Lt, Commander of Co. F. He signed a certificate of death as such in 1863 when my ggg-grandfathers’s widow filed her pension application.