Gary and Karen:
Jim Martin called my attention to your exchange about the NUNN brothers who served in the 34th Georgia Infantry. As a general rule, the best primary source of information about any Confederate soldier is contained in his Compiled Military Service Records. If you all don't have these, you should get them. Other correspondents to this message board can recommend where the best place to ask for them would be.
I will have to wait until next week when the Fort Delaware Society offices are open to check what our index card system shows on both men. But I can give you the following information from my own research files:
Private Augustus L. NUNN, Company E, 34th Georgia Infantry appears in our listing "They Died at Fort Delaware" (Fort Delaware Society, June 1997) and in the "Register of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Who Died in Federal Military Prisons and Military Hospitals in the North" (United States War Department, 1912). Nothing is given about his place of capture, but his date of death is recorded in both sources as June 20, 1863.
The 34th Georgia Infantry was part of Cumming's Brigade, Stevenson's Division and fought at Champion Hill. Some 4,400 Confederate prisoners of war were captured at Champion Hill (May 16, 1863) and Big Black Bridge (May 17, 1863) were shipped north by steamboat and railroad to Camp Morton, Indiana. At Camp Morton, some 187 officers were forwarded to Johnson's Island and the enlisted men split into two groups. The first group was sent by rail to Philadelphia and then by steamboat down to Fort Delaware arriving June 9th. The second group, originally intended to remain at Camp Morton, was also forwarded by rail and arrived at Fort Delaware on June 15, 1863. Some apparently remained behind at Camp Morton since the headcount of those arriving at Fort Delaware is only about 3,700.
I am not sure which of these two groups that Augustus L. NUNN arrived with but you should be able to tell that from his Compiled Military Service Records.
Gary wrote: >>>It seems that Augustus had a brother with him, James E. Nunn. James was also at Fort Delaware and was paroled July 3rd 1863, James next showes up at Camp Lee near Richmond VA. on July 19, 1863.<<<
The exchange system was in disarray in June and early July 1863 and apparently numbers of Confederate prisoners were sent to the James River from Fort Delaware and exchanged or released on parole. By the end of July, similar exchanges were cancelled and the men held in prison. Your information about James' exchange is consistent with what I know.
Gary wrote: >>>Records also have him at Chimborazo or General Hospital Camp Winder, Richmond VA. (Died of Typhoid 8/5/1863) The strange thing about report number two is that it also states that he has a wife - Esther E. Nunn and several children!!!<<<
Family information does not usually appear in the Compiled Military Service Records. If you got this information from someone else's research, I would take another look at the CMSR to verify the information.
Gary wrote: >>>I think Augustus died at Fort Delaware and that record number two belongs to James.<<<
I would not jump to the conclusion that record #2 belongs to James even though it has Augustus' name on it. Many soldiers had the same name. It is not beyond the realm of reason that Augustus was actually sent south, released and died in Richmond and not at Fort Delaware. The June 20, 1863 date of death could be in error unless it is supported by other data. I would have to see what his actual CMSR records show before offering an opinion on this. Unfortunately, I don't have access to these CMSR.
Both "They Died at Fort Delaware" and the War Department 1912 Register also show two more men surnamed NUNN who died at Fort Delaware and are buried in Finns Point National Cemetery in Salem County, New Jersey:
Private James NUNN, Company B, 4th North Carolina Cavalry was captured at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 and delivered to Fort Delaware where he died of chronic diarrhea on April 8, 1864.
Private J. C. NUNN, Company D, 16th Georgia Infantry was captured at Gettysburg on July 5, 1863 and died at Fort Delaware from smallpox on October 21, 1863.
I will get back to you next week with whatever additional information I can find in the Society archives.
Hugh Simmons
Fort Delaware Society
http://www.del.net/org/fort