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Alice,
The National Park Service's "Soldiers and Sailors" website, http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss, lists an Adam P. Corn who was a Confederate soldier in Company B, 62nd North Carolina Infantry. Other websites show that the 62nd was made up mostly of soldiers from extreme western North Carolina and East Tennessee. I believe Company B was formed mostly from Clay County, NC, which is just north of the north Georgia area where many of the descendants of Adam and Jesse Corn settled. Another website,http://search.ancestry.com/db-messageboards/P1284074.aspx, seems to indicate that this Adam P. Corn is listed among those who died at the Union prisoner of war camp, Camp Douglas, in or near Chicago, IL. Apparently, conditions at Camp Douglas were appalling, even by standards of that era, with death rates at times higher than those at the notorious Conderate prison at Andersonville.
The "Soldiers and Sailors" website has information on how to order the records for all of the soldiers in the National Park Service database. Unfortunately, it appears that recordkeeping at Camp Douglas was poor and it is believed that many deaths there were not recorded. The remains of many of the soldiers buried at Camp Douglas were later moved to a mass burial site in Oakwoods Cemetery in Chicago in what is said to be the largest mass burial site in the Western hemisphere (for more information search on "Camp Douglas Conferate Mound"). I believe there is a book published that indexes the names of soldiers who were known to have died at Camp Douglas. A Conferate website might have someone who could do a lookup for you.
I am a descendant of Adam Corn, whom I believe to have been Adam Posey Corn's grandfather, through Adam Corn's daughter Rebeckah (Rebecca. Rebecca married Levi Frady and settled in Union & Lumpkin Co., GA, and I would be most interested in hearing & sharing with other Adam Corn descendants.
Janice Nolin
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