Michael:

The Prince Street Military Prison figured in some August 1864 court-martial summaries that I recently read through. Deserters and bounty jumpers were held there until sentenced. At the time, it was being run by a unit of the Veteran Volunteers. The bounty jumpers were sentenced to three years hard labor at Fort Delaware with the ball and chain to be worn during the first year of their sentence.

You wrote: >>> I assumed that those were conditions of parole - not active combat service. His CMSR indicates that his name appears on the Union prisoner rolls at Libby, and that his name is crossed off. Those records may have been lost, then, but a note was made contemporaneously. <<<

Assuming he was captured and released under the Dix-Hill Cartel, his terms of parole would not have allowed him to perform any kind of military service until properly exchanged (declared exchanged by mutual agreement). That is the major reason discipline was such a problem in the parole camps. There was little for the men to do.

You wrote: >>> I will have to look at his CMSR, but it indicates that he worked in Alexandria for the first part of his service. <<<

Maybe he was detached for Provost Marshal duty. Crute's Unit History for the 94th New York says that it was stationed in the DC area from 18 MAR 1862 to May 1862 and then sent to the Rappahannock. Their first actual combat came at Cedar Mountain on 9 AUG 1862.

Hugh Simmons
Fort Delaware Society