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Re: Aaron R. Burke-Rock Island POW Camp

Aaron R. Burk [sic], age 22, Private, Captain Michael D. Kennedy's Company, 15th Regiment Texas Cavalry,* enlisted March 8, 1862 at Fort North, Fort Worth, Texas, by M. D. Kennedy for 12 months, value of horse $175, equipments $20, captured at Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, Arkansas, January 11, 1863, died at Camp Douglas, Ill. Prison Camp, March 15, 1863

* This company subsequently became Company E, 15th Regiment Texas Cavalry

M323: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas

For further information, see:

Confederate P. O. W.'s, Soldiers & Sailors Who Died in Federal Prisons & Military Hospitals In the North, 1984, National Archives, Francis Ingmire & Carolyn Ericson, Lib. Congress No. 84-081172, ISBN 911317-34-1

This was apparently taken from the Register of Confederate Soldiers & Sailors Who Died in Federal Prisons and Hospitals in the North, Compiled in the Office of the Commissioner for Marking Graves of Confederate Dead, War Department, 1912

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