Thomas Robert Duncan, as a captured Union soldier, was taken to Andersonville stockade prison.

100 men a day died there because of the deplorable conditions.  Mass graves were often used.

Thomas R. Duncan was captured with 700 of his comrades and was confined in the stockade style Andersonville Prison for over two and a half months before being taken to Savannah for a period of time.  While he was confined at Andersonville many men were dying of scurvy because the latrine (a public toilet trough) was next to the fresh water stream flowing through the prison's muddy yard.  Thomas led a group of men to a high point next to the newest stockade wall and there they held a three day prayer for fresh water.  On the third day, just outside the crude log walls, a spring of water broke through the ground and the men reached between the logs and channeled the water inside the wall to a quickly made hole for a reservoir.  That fresh water saved their lives.  Notice the remarkable words on Thomas R. Duncan's prison record (at the bottom of this page), "Held at Andersonville and survived."  The men long told the story of how God saved their lives on that third day of prayer. 

 You may visit Andersonville National Historic Site (map below) by clicking here.

Thomas Robert's Andersonville record.

Below, Thomas Robert Duncan in his senior years.