Have any of the field-school students been descendants of POWs or guards? Or have any such visited the place?

David Bush: One of our Heidelberg College students, Kelly Hockersmith, who graduated from the Anthropology Department and is now in graduate school, was a descendant of Captain L. D. Hockersmith, a member of Morgan's Raiders that was imprisoned at Johnson's Island. We have had many descendants come to the site and visit the cemetery as well as the archaeological investigations. Each year, Pat and Carol Cates work with us at the site, and they are the descendants of Captain John Reece of the 1st Confederate Infantry of Tennessee. I can't even imagine what goes through their minds as they actually dig into their family's past.