Disposition of prisoners after Hanover Court House

[tomaldridge]

Anyone know what happened to the Confederate pisoners taken at Hanover Court House?

[Shorty]

What makes them special?
  Hanover Court House is still there, and they even have a little museum.  Maybe you could search to see if they have a web site.

[tomaldridge]

One of them was my great-great-grandfather.  He and his brothers joined the 49th VA Infantry in Prince William County, VA at the beginning of the War.  He is listed in the regimental history as captured at Hanover Court House.  I know he returned to Prince William County, my great-granfather was born in 1866.  I don't have any idea when my great-great-grandfather returned, or where he was between his capture and return.  Hanover Court has a web-site, but I haven't found anything helpful yet.  Just trolling, hoping to find a prisoner exchange/POW expert.

[Shorty]

Tom,
A while back, there was a big to-do about flying the Confederate flag over a Confederate cemetary on US government land where a POW camp was.  It was on the Northern Neck or maybe across the Potomac in Maryland.  I know this is no help because I can't remember where that was, but it seems that POWs would not have been moved any farther than the nearest camp, and maybe that would be the object of your search.

[tomaldridge]

That was Point Lookout, MD.  It's located where the Potomac and Patapsco Rivers meet at the Chesapeake Bay.  He's not listed as being interred there, and Point Lookout didn't start up until 1863.  I suspect he was paroled and exchanged, but haven't been able to find proof.

[Jim N Mo.]

Tom ,
   Do you know when he was captured ? Besides the battle of 1862 I have seen where prisoners were captured in 1864 at Hanover Court House and then moved to Point Lookout before going on to Elmira Prison .