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Byron Woodruff Cadwell
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Byron Woodruff Cadwell

Birth
Phelps, Ontario County, New York, USA
Death
31 Oct 1864 (aged 26)
Millen, Jenkins County, Georgia, USA
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Barrington, Cook County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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He enlisted in Palatine with Company E, 113th Illinois Infantry Regiment on October 1, 1962. During his time of service, Cadwell saw action in central Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and participated in the Siege of Vicksburg; he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant. On June 11, 1864, he was captured by Confederate forces at Guntown, Mississippi, and taken to Andersonville prison.
By 1864, civilians in the Confederacy and soldiers of the Confederate Army were all struggling to obtain sufficient quantities of food, and the prisoners received less than the guards. The prisoners became severely emaciated and suffered from scurvy due to a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables in their diet, a major cause of the camp's high mortality rate, as well as dysentery and typhoid fever. During the war, 45,000 prisoners were received at Andersonville prison; of these nearly 13,000 died.
In the autumn of 1864, all the prisoners who were well enough to be moved were sent to Florence (SC) Stockade and Camp Lawton (GA). Although surely weakened, Cadwell was among those moved in September to Camp Lawton.
Sergeant Byron Cadwell died of disease while a prisoner of war in Camp Lawton, Millen, Georgia.
He enlisted in Palatine with Company E, 113th Illinois Infantry Regiment on October 1, 1962. During his time of service, Cadwell saw action in central Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and participated in the Siege of Vicksburg; he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant. On June 11, 1864, he was captured by Confederate forces at Guntown, Mississippi, and taken to Andersonville prison.
By 1864, civilians in the Confederacy and soldiers of the Confederate Army were all struggling to obtain sufficient quantities of food, and the prisoners received less than the guards. The prisoners became severely emaciated and suffered from scurvy due to a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables in their diet, a major cause of the camp's high mortality rate, as well as dysentery and typhoid fever. During the war, 45,000 prisoners were received at Andersonville prison; of these nearly 13,000 died.
In the autumn of 1864, all the prisoners who were well enough to be moved were sent to Florence (SC) Stockade and Camp Lawton (GA). Although surely weakened, Cadwell was among those moved in September to Camp Lawton.
Sergeant Byron Cadwell died of disease while a prisoner of war in Camp Lawton, Millen, Georgia.

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