Thanks; that would be interesting information and would fill in another piece of the puzzle.

As I work on the history of the Alabama 19th infantry, I am drawn more often than not to the question: what happened to these fellows -- how could a regiment of over 2700 men surrender in 1865 with so few (fewer than 80 enlisted + a few officers). Treading through the possibilities, prison, death, desertion, and now, serving in the federal army at the end, is a strangely healing experience as answers appear. This is especially true since my direct ancestor was taken prisoner in Chattanooga and became a galvanized yankee after a year at Rock Island.

Maybe that question is "where did they all go" -- not just aggregate numbers of killed, death from disease, etc. but individual answers, individual fates, could take us southerners to the next level and get us off that eternally frustrating (and often pointless) argument -- what was it about?

Glenda