It was On This Day that POW Private S.E. Barrell died while in US custody. Barrell served in Company F of the 12 Tennessee in the Confederate Army. He had been captured 27 December 1862 at Stone’s River during the Battle of Murfreesboro, TN. A quick Google search did not reveal any personal information about Barrell. From a Northern perspective, we so rarely discuss Confederate POWs and I have to be honest, while going through the database, I was surprised how many Confederate POWs there had been. Barrell is not family but merely someone who just caught my eye for whatever reason. Sources: Ancestry.com. Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo , UT , USA : Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. Captured Confederate Soldiers http://www.tennessee-scv.org/Camp33/captured_confeds.htm National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Carded Records Showing Military Service of Soldiers Who Fought in Co...
by Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman