You asked for a place to find family data in the Confederate military records. The best that you get from these records is the date and place of enrollment and his age and county of birth. Occasionally, there will a snippet of information in a company muster roll remarks section telling us that a man was absent having been furloughed to his home with an address given. But these pieces of information were not always preserved and presented in the Compiled Military Service Records. An Oath of Allegiance record for men released from northern prisons after the war was over will give his place of residence for transportation purposes.

(1) Adding to what George Martin as already posted, Benjamin A. Randolph Company C, 4th Battalion, Louisiana Infantry enrolled at Winnsboro, Franklin Parish, Louisiana. Benjamin was surrendered under the Citronelle surrender agreement (4 MAY 1865) and paroled at Meridian, Mississippi on 10 MAY 1865. He did not go to any northern POW camp.

(2) The closest name I could find in the 2nd Louisiana Infanry records was Private W. L. RANDOL, Company C, 2nd Louisiana Infantry. His CMSR contains a single Oath of Allegiance record at Fort Delaware dated 10 AUG 1862. There were no company muster rolls in this file to provide any place of enlistment data. As a result of the signing of the Dix-Hill Cartel on 22 JUL 1862, some 3,000 POWs were paroled at Fort Delaware and delivered to Confederate authorities at Aiken's Landing on the James River on 5 AUG 1862. But about 300 men refused to be paroled and returned. After consultation with the Federal War Department on what to do with them, a decision was made to have them take the Oath of Allegiance and release them into northern society. This was done on 10 AUG 1862.

(3) There was a Private B. L. RANDOLPH enrolled by a Conscript Officer at Vicksburg on 5 SEP 1862 in Company E, 1st Regiment, Louisiana Heavy Artillery. I recently did a lookup on another man who was from Claiborne Parish and enrolled by a Conscript Officer in this company. However, B. L. RANDOLPH's CMSR does not say where he was from. He was sick in the hospital at Vicksburg at the end of the siege, delivered to Confederate authorities at Mobile Bay on 4 AUG 1863 and died in the Moone General Hospital at Mobile on 28 AUG 1863.

I hope this all helps!

Hugh