92nd Illinois Prisoners-of-War (see “Find Your Ancestor” page for biographies and further details)
| Company A | |
| Giddings, Howland | survived |
| Miller, Morris | died, Andersonville |
| Reeder, John | survived |
| Tyler, Nathan | survived Andersonville |
| Company B | |
| Cattanach, William | murdered, Georgia |
| Elliott, Edwin | died, Andersonville |
| Norton, Julius | died, Alabama |
| O’Conner, Reginald | murdered, Georgia |
| White, William | survived |
| Company C | |
| Chapin, George | survived |
| Chase, Francis | survived Andersonville |
| Cooke, David | died, Tennessee |
| Frank, George | survived |
| Lawrence, Leander | survived |
| Oakley, Thomas | survived Andersonville |
| Company D | |
| Heistand, Benjamin | died, Andersonville |
| McMillen, Henry | survived |
| Shoemaker, David | survived Andersonville |
| Snyder, William | survived |
| Woodruff, Constantine | survived |
| Company E | |
| Best, Coston | died, South Carolina |
| Elliott, William | survived |
| Groff, Frederick | survived Andersonville |
| Guyer, William | died Andersonville |
| Slosser, Henry | died Andersonville |
| Smith, John | fate unknown |
| Stohl, Jeremiah | survived |
| Company F | |
| Allen, Hiram | survived |
| Baker, Perril | died, South Carolina |
| Bishop, William | survived Andersonville |
| Buckman, Zacharias | survived |
| Clark, Sample | fate unknown |
| Harpster, Henry | survived Andersonville |
| Mader, John | survived Andersonville |
| Miller, Henry | died Andersonville |
| Renner, Eli | survived |
| Rogers, Edward | survived Andersonville |
| Spence, John | survived Andersonville |
| Ventioner, George | fate unknown |
| Company G | |
| Baysinger, Alexander | fate unknown |
| Houser, Abraham | survived Andersonville |
| Houser, Christopher | survived |
| Smith, Thomas | fate unknown |
| Company H | |
| Cooper, Stephen | survived |
| Gay, Floyd | survived |
| Gifford, Richard | survived |
| Irvine, William | survived |
| Kooker, Mahler | survived Andersonville |
| Noe, Benjamin | survived Andersonville |
| O’Rorke, James | survived Andersonville, drowned, Union Steamer Lyon |
| Reaves, Robert | survived Andersonville |
| Starkey, James | died Alabama after surviving Andersonville |
| Company I | |
| Apple, Balsar | fate unknown |
| Bashaw, Henry | survived |
| Forbes, James | fate unknown |
| Fraser, Don | escaped three times, each time recaptured, survived |
| McWorthy, William | died Andersonville |
| Reynolds, Charles | survived Andersonville |
| Reynolds, William | murdered, Georgia |
| Company K | |
| Bly, William | survived |
| Davis, Nathaniel | survived Andersonville |
| Harrington, Erastus | died, South Carolina, after surviving Andersonville |
| Hill, Jonathan | survived |
| Hills, William | murdered, Georgia |
| Kelley, Patrick | survived |
| Kenney, Elisha | survived |
| Lewis, Baton | died, location unknown |
| Merritt, James | survived Andersonville |
| Revell, Wallace | survived Andersonville |
| Scoville, Horace | survived Andersonville |
| Sheets, William | survived |
| Stolhut, Augustus | died Andersonville |
| Helm, Clinton (Surgeon) | in charge of field hospital, Chickamauga Battlefield, 9/63; allowed self to be captured while tending injured troops on field; permitted by Confederates to remain on battlefield and care for men for two weeks; imprisoned, Libby, 10/10/63; released 11/24/63; allowed to rejoin 92nd. |
Two eye-witness accounts of Andersonville Prison as told by members of the 92nd Illinois:
Charles W. Reynolds was one of the unfortunate soldiers on picket at Nickojack Gap, Georgia, when he was captured by General Wheeler’s forces and sent to Andersonville Prison. He shared his experience at that prison:
“As we entered, a sight of horror met our eyes that almost froze our blood and made our hearts stop beating. Before us were skeleton forms that once had been stalwart men – covered with rags and filth and vermin – with hollow cheeks and glaring eyes. We laid down in the sand without a thing under or over us, and already nearly stripped of clothing by our captors. For many days we remained so exposed to the cold dew at night and the scorching sun by day. I have counted one hundred and thirty lifeless skeletons of our boys that had died in one day. You might walk around the prison any hour in the day and see men closing their eyes in death. Diarrhea and scurvy appeared to be the most fatal diseases. I cannot describe the hopeless misery and suffering. Imagination cannot conceive of it.”
Nathan C. Tyler was also captured at Nickojack and sent to Andersonville. Here is his account:
“The first thing that met my eyes was the rebels carrying out the dead from the prison. They were carried on stretchers to the gate of the stockade and then thrown into wagons, entirely nude, from twenty to thirty in a wagon and hauled away and thrown into trenches. When we reached the inside of the prison we found the most wretched-looking human beings that it is possible for the imagination to conceive of – mere skeletons, filthy, and eaten up with vermin. Our rations consisted of a half pint of corn meal to each man, ground with the cob.”