James M. Burchett, Company K, 8th Virginia Regiment, was wounded in Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, captured, and taken to the Union Second Corps Hospital. According to Kathy Georg Harrison and John W. Busey's book, Nothing but Glory, Burchett's uncle was Andrew Johnson, who would become president after Lincoln's assassination. He was "disliked by some of his comrades for professing strong Union sentiments." He was exchanged from West Buildings Hospital on 17 November 1863. Burchett was also interviewed by Andrew B. Cross of the Christian Commission in his published work of 1865, although he was not identified by Cross: "At this same hospital was a nephew of Andrew Johnson, from Tennessee, who with ninety-four other young men, in 1862, started for Kentucky, to enter the Union cavalry. On September 10 they were captured near Luckey Cove Seminary, Powell Valley, Lee Co., Virginia. He was sent to Staunton, and put in the 8th Virginia infantry, and had been in service until wounded here. He and his friends were strong Union men. ... " An undated newspaper clipping in the Bucks County [Pennsylvania] Intelligencer states, "one young man who had his leg amputated, and was otherwise injured, represented himself as a nephew of Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee - he said he had raised a company of cavalry at home, to fight for the Union cause, but was arrested and forced into Confederate service. As he related the story to different persons, and was quite intelligent and seemingly honest in his motives, there was no reason to doubt his story." I had earlier posted a query on the Tennessee board trying to identify this individual, and Gay Mathis responded, citing a Sun (Maryland) article dated 30 July 1863 from the Battlefield of Gettysburg, PA, Second Corps Hospital, July 26, to the Baltimore Christians Commission: "In a barn nearby lies a nephew of Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, whose leg has been amputated. On his way to Kentucky, he was conscripted, "though" said he, "my mother would rather seen me dead than in the rebel army." His brothers were forced in also, and he had never heard from them; "but," said he, looking down on the stump, "there is one comfort to be derived from it. I can stay at my father's house without fear of being taken." So we have separate accounts of interviews with Burchett that contain some conflicting details, but the central theme of his claim to being a Union man compelled into the Confederate service is consistent. However, the truth of his story awaits verification.