Lt. Burney was the first of the prisoners to die at Fort Pulaski and the only one of these
thirteen to be buried on native soil. He enlisted in the 49th on March 4, 1862, in
Wilkinson County, Georgia, and was captured at Gettysburg on July 2, 1863.
He became sick on Morris Island and was admitted to the post hospital there on September
29, 1864. He never recovered but was moved to Fort Pulaski where he died November 12,
1864. He was 26 years old.
Capt. Fitzgerald had been in the regular U.S. Army, serving in the Mexican War at age 18. He was captured on August
20, 1863. Prison life led to an addiction to opium which was given to the men without restriction.
When he applied to take the oath of allegiance to the United States in order to get out of prison, it was denied because
the Union officials believed he had been in the Union Army when he enlisted in the Confederate Army.
Capt. Fitzgerald became mentally unstable and very little was known about him by his fellow prisoners when he died on November
13, 1864.
He left a wife, who was notified by fellow prisoners, through sympathizers in Maryland.
Lt. Lane was a planter's son, living at home, working on his father's farm with his brothers and sisters in Greene County,
North Carolina, when the war began.
A sturdy youth of 22, he was 6 feet tall with blonde hair and grey eyes.
When his country called, he joined the 3rd N.C. on April 23, 1861.
Wounded in the thigh at Gettysburg, he received a 60 day furlough home.
He returned to the army and was captured at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864.
Lt. Lane was admitted to the post hospital at Fort Pulaski on October 30, 1864, and died there on Dec. 8.
Lt. Burgin was the youngest of the thirteen men buried here.
Still in his teens, he left his father's farm and enlisted in the 22nd on June 5, 1861.
He was wounded and captured at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.
Lt. Burgin died at Fort Pulaski on January 28, 1865 at age 21.
Lt. Legg was married with five children when he enlisted in the 50th at Wytheville, Virginia, on June 27, 1861.
He left the mountains of Southwest Virginia, and his family farm, to die and be buried 800 miles away in the salt marshes
of Cockspur Island on February 7, 1865.
Lt. Legg was among the oldest of the prisoners at age 37.
Capt. Bradford left a wife and small children to enlist as a Private on August 6, 1862.
He was captured at Helena, Arkansas, on July 4, 1863.
In a letter dated Sept. 27, from Morris Island to his wife, he wrote: "Thank God for my protection thus far and hope he
will save me from harm and give me fortitude to bear all that I may have to endure in prison, and finally permit me to
return to my lovely family, to enjoy the pleasure of them and their presence which I most desire.
May God Bless you is my constant prayer.
Your loving husband, til death. M.J. Bradford."
His last letter home was dated January 15, 1865.
Capt. Bradford died on February 13, 1865, from the conditions caused by starvation; he was 31 years old.
Alex King was a student when he joined the 50th Va. on May 27, 1861.
He was living with a younger brother and sister in a boarding house in Smythe County, Virginia.
Enlisting as a lieutenant, he was quickly promoted to Captain by May 1862, and captured at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864.
When he died of scurvy on St. Valentine's Day in 1865, he was mourned by fellow Virginians who realized the loss of
such a gifted young man of some literary success.
His family had a headstone erected in his memory at Sinking Spring Cemetery in Abingdon, Virginia.
It simply reads "Our Brother".
He was 23 years old.
Lt. Rosenbalm was also from the mountains of Southwest Virginia.
He enlisted in the 37th Virginia and was captured on May 12, 1864 at Spotsylvania.
While imprisoned at Point Lookout Maryland, before being selected as one of the Six Hundred,
he was sent an autograph album belonging to a young woman in Baltimore.
He signed it "Am single, but I still live in hopes."
He died at Fort Pulaski on February 18, 1865, at age 28.
Lt. Goodloe was from Franklin Co. Tennessee, where he enlisted with friends on December 9, 1861.
He was married with a wife and two children, a farmer of modest property holdings.
Captured at Petersburg on June 17, 1864, he arrived at Fort Delaware just in time to join the Six Hundred.
He had been in the post hospital at Fort Pulaski since October 30, 1864, where he suffered for four months,
dying on February 27, 1865.
He was 36 years old.
Capt. Brumley was the oldest son and overseer on his father's farm in Concord North Carolina.
He enlisted at age 22 in the 20th, receiving a severe wound in the back and the thigh at Gettysburg which resulted in his
capture.
Toward the end of the retaliation, his health became too delicate to send him back to Fort Delaware when the
Six Hundred were returned on March 3, 1865, so he was left behind at Fort Pulaski, where he died of pneumonia the next day,
March 4, 1865.
Lt. Eastham was the son of a well to do farmer in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where he enlisted at Harrisonburg
as a private on April 18, 1861.
He was promoted to 1st Lieut. in May 1863 for his gallant conduct at Chancellorsville.
Lt. Eastham was captured at the Bloody Angle at Spotsylvania on May 12, 1864.
Throughout his military career, he had often been sick.
He was not married. He died March 6, 1865 at age 27.
Lt. Ganoway was age 32, unmarried, and living at home on his father's farm in Wythe County, Virginia, when he enlisted in
the 50th Infantry.
He spent nearly a year in prison at Camp Chase from September 1861 through Augusgt 1862, when he was exchanged and returned
to the army.
He was captured at Spotsylvania May 12, 1864.
Of the nine men from the 50th Infantry among the 600, Lt. Ganoway was one of four who died.
He died March 10, 1865, from dysentery.
Capt. Tolbert left South Carolina and moved to Florida before the war, where he owned a small farm.
When he went to war with the 5th Florida Infantry in March 1862, he left a young wife with three children in Lake City.
He was captured at the Wilderness on May 6, 1864.
Left behind at Fort Pulaski when his comrades were sent back to Fort Delaware in March 1865, he died on March 14th.
He was 32 years of age.