Patricia,
Capt. Cawood of Co. B, 43rd Tennessee was severely wounded at Vicksburg, he was shipped with the sick and wounded July 15, 1863 to Mobile, Alabama via New Orleans. His Compiled Service Record File stated that he died August 5, 1863 at Pt. CLORR.
I looked everywhere I could to locate a Pt. Clorr. It was about 10 years ago I heard on a message board that a local SCV unit had found three burial trenches at the Confederate Hospital located on the grounds of the Grand Hotel at Pt. Clear, Alabama. Eureka, Clorr was a transcriptional error, actually Pt. Clear.
I got in contact with these SCV fellows, provided them with Cawoods service record data, thereafter, his VA stone marker arrived and was placed in the cemetery grounds.
I do not believe actual digs will reveal anything you seek. Rather, you would be well advised to check hospital records in the Mobile, Alabama area. Try contacting the local SCV Camps in that area and also post your query on the Alabama message board.
Someone, perhaps it was you, previously advised me that family data indicates he died in 1865. This would seem to me that he did return home.
As a case in point, I got a message 8 years ago that this fellows ggrandfather never came home following Vicksburg. I found him however, a POW captured Sept. 22, 1864 in the Shenadoah Valley, who subsequently died at the POW camp at Pt. Lookoout, Md. This seems to show that some family records are faulty and that he would have had to return home subsequently rejoing the regiment following exchange in Oct. 1863.
Hope this helps,
George Martin
gmartin55@charter.net
PS We are holding a reunion of descendants of the 43rd Tennessee this coming June at Vicksburg. See:
Hope you can come.
McCamish, Samuel, Pvt., Co. I, born February 26, 1811, enlisted for 12 months January 1, 1862 at Charleston, Tenn., recorded "Sick 4th Nov." on Regimental Return of November 1862, captured in hospital and paroled at Vicksburg July 4-15, 1863, shipped with paroled sick and wounded prisoners from Vicksburg July 24, 1863 to Mobile, Ala. via New Orleans, La., married Mary Ann Hyden September 30, 1830, he did not return home from the war leaving behind 10 children, family records list his death in 1865, prewar a farmer living in the 9th District of Bradley Co. with his wife and two children (M268 Roll 292) [descendent, Patricia McCamish Donohoe]
I don't show his son James in the regiment. If I sent you previously his record, please send me a copy.