George Martin
James C. Sowder
Enlisted as a Private
He was listed as:
* POW 10/26/1861 Romney, WV
* Confined 11/5/1861 Camp Chase, OH (Estimated day)
* Confined 9/11/1862 Vicksburg, MS
* Exchanged 11/10/1862 Aiken's Landing, VA
"H" Co. VA 7th Cavalry
Did not survive the war
Jas. C. Sowder was arrested/captured at Romney, Va. October 26, 1861, POW at Camp Chase, Ohio, transferred to Vicksburg for exchange August 25, 1862, exchanged at Aiken's Landing November 10, 1862, claim for his effects were filed by his father Josiah Sowder August 1, 1863
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7th Regiment, Virginia Cavalry (Ashby's)
7th Cavalry Regiment was organized during the late spring of 1861. In October authority was given to increase its size, and by the summer of 1862 the regiment contained twenty-nine companies. In June it was reduced to ten companies. Ten companies formed the 12th Regiment Virginia Cavalry, seven became the 17th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, one transferred to the 14th Regiment Virginia Cavalry, and one became J.W. Carter's Battery. The unit served in W.E. Jones', Rosser's, and J. Dearing's Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. It took part in Jackson's Valley Campaign and the conflicts at Cedar Mountain, Second Manassas, Sharpsburg, Upperville, Fairfield, Bristoe, Mine Run, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. Later the regiment was involved in Early's Shenandoah Valley operations and disbanded in mid-April, 1865. None of its members were at Appomattox on April 9. The field officers were Colonels Turner Ashby, Richard H. Dulany, William E. Jones, and A.W. McDonald; Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Marshall; and Majors O.R. Funsten, Daniel C. Harcher, and Samuel B. Myers.
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The Richmond Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862.
Monday morning....Jan. 27, 1862
Confederate prisoners.
The following list of Confederate prisoners may not be uninteresting to our readers. It embraces the names of one hundred and sixty-one officers and men of the Confederate army now in confinement at "Camp Chase," Columbus, Ohio:
Capt. M. V. Daniel,--Kentucky regiment.
Capt. John W. Foster, Gen. Marshall's command, Kentucky.
First Lieut. A. O. Brummell, Richmond Artillery.
First Lieut J. D. Barnett, Second Lieut. Thos. F. Mitchell, Privates David Pennington, Wm. F. Sells, Elijah P. Johnson, Noah Blavins, 50th Va. regiment.
Wm. C. Bramlett, J. A. Poindexter, 8th Reg. Va. Cavalry.
T. J. Roffe, W. D. Roffe, A. L. Cce, B. F. Kelley, 22d Va. regiment.
Charles Magby, 3d Ark regiment.
Geo. W. Lampert, 51st Va. regiment.
Anderson Windsor, J. H. Duff, John E. Hester, 8th Va. Reg. Cavaly.
Wm. W. Snyder, John W. Thompson, Wm. W. Benson, David H. Campbell, Otho M. Bird, D. C. Gibson, 31st Va. regiment.
Leon Draifouse, Henrico Dragoons.
Hume Young, Newton Battalion.
George W. Russell, 8th Va. Cavalry.
N. S. Ward, F. M. Franks, 12th Ga. reg.
John B. Lusby, J. S. Harris, 3d Ark. reg.
Wm. H. Gibson, 25th Va. reg., Sergeant Major.
Charles B. Carter, A. R. Sillings, Pendleton Sheflet, Samuel Moses, Geo. A. Coyner, Matthew Able, 52d Va. reg.
Amos Thompson, L. Rexroad, D. C. Gibson, Jacob Arbogast, Francis M, Connelly, A. H. James, Thomas B. Johnson, Perre M. Talbot, James M. Golden, James W. Chew, 31st Va. reg.
Person Whitsel, JAMES SOWDER, Elijah Tuseing, John H. Guyger, Sol. Simmons, Wm. P. Miller, McDonald's Cavalry.
Jos. J. Dunn, --Va. reg.
Martin Stoner, --Va. reg.
James J. Blankinship, Jas. H. Hall, Wm. Paugh, Hansborough's Battalion.
Hugh McGuain, 25th Va. Reg.
Wm. Lanier, Wm. L. Forbort, 12th Ga. Regiment.
Albert Thompson, Thomas West, James H. Alford, 31st Va. Reg.
J. B. Bender, Hansborough's Bat.
Jno. T. Ganaway, 50th Reg. Va.
David H. Whitman, Jno. T. McClutchin, 25th Va. Reg.
Solomon Rose, McDonough's Va Cavalry.
D. C. Poor, Va. Artilery.
Simon F. Hicks, --Va. Reg.
John M. Irvin, Sterrett's Cav.
John W. Cummings, Kentucky Cav.
Joseph P. Dejarnette, Wm. C. Respess, Wm. Tighe, Wm. R. Karsner, Jas. S. Hicks, Wm. S. Childers, J. P. Jones. John Barner, Wm. M. Jones, P. S. Jones, B. A. Jones, Nelson Jones, Wm. H. Melton, Wm. C. Jacobs, David J. Linn, Wm. P. Chisham, Wm. H. Mason, James W. Osborne, Geo. B. Jackson, Geo. W. Blackburn, Samuel Bobiuson, Elijah Kightly, Franklin Little, Thomas Murphy, John T. Rose, John W. Fields, Dudley Robinson, Joseph Fields, Thomas D. Fields, Wm. H. McCabe, Newton Cartney, Zach. Clarke, David H Hickey, Jacvis Heyden, L. H. McClung, Captain Foster Ky. Cavalry.
A. J. Holston, 22d Va. reg.
Wisely Sansome, 36th Va. reg.
Geo. W. Nunnally, Va. Artillery.
Henry Woolford, Hobert Hudson, 45th Va. reg.
Thomas West, Evan Evans, Andrew Hoffman, O. S., Josiah Thompson, Sol. Gainer, Phillip Wolfe, Geo. E. Daft, Jefferson Arbogast, Wm. J. Bradshaw, J. S. Robertson, Esau Vint, Dennis Boner, Joseph Raduska, 31st Va. reg.
B. F. Brooks, J. G. Carter John Gerren, 3d Ark. reg.
Dr. D. Hooper, A aron Livingston, Samuel in Richardson, J. D. King, C. E. Welling, 1st Tenn. reg.
Samuel Hope, J. R. Hill, 7th Tenn. reg.
Geo. W. King, 21st Va. reg.
James G. Bowden, James S. Taylor, 50th Va. reg.
Geo. L. Levy, 3d Va. reg.
Moses Albright, J. V. Colencan, Aug. Cantley, 22d Va. reg.
W. B. Crittenden, 23d Va. reg.
Thomas J. Ferguson, 50th Va. reg.
J. J. Shepherd, 1st, Ga. reg.
W. A. Bales, 51st Va. reg.
Wm. P. Bruce, 45th Va. reg.
Lewis Nassauer, 1st Tenn. reg.
F. M. Williams, Pittsylvania Dragoons.
In addition to these, there are also some fifty or sixty civilians. A proposition had been made the latter, and, indeed, the volunteers also, to take the oath of allegiance and be set at liberty. This proposition, we need not say, was indignantly rejected.