When the Civil War ended, former Union soldier Dorence Atwater sought this person`s help to publish a list of soldiers who had died while interned at the Confederate Andersonville prison camp in Georg
General Ulysses S. Grant
Secretary of War Edwin Stanton
President Abraham Lincoln
Clara Barton
Mark Twain
Clara Barton.
When the Civil War ended, former Union soldier Dorence Atwater sought Clara Barton`s help to publish a list of soldiers who had died while interned at the Confederate Andersonville prison camp in Georgia. Atwater was captured by the Confederates in 1863 and his penmanship won him the job of recording the name, company, regiment, disease, date of death, and grave number of each prisoner who had died at Andersonville. Atwater made a secret copy of the list and after the war wanted to publish it so that the families of the dead would know where their loved ones were buried. He approached Clara Barton, who had already opened an office to locate missing Union soldiers. When they tried to publish the death register, however, it resulted in Atwater`s court marital and imprisonment..
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