I have some additional information from the Finley Papers, as requested. He was born 1 December 1838 in Caswell County, North Carolina. He died on 23 April 1909 in Staunton, Virginia and was buried in the Tinkling Spring churchyard near Staunton. Upon his capture at Gettysburg, Finley was taken first to Fort McHenry and then to Fort Delaware. After a few weeks "we were herded like cattle in box cars and were sent to Johnson's Island in Lake Erie, where I remained about nine months ... most of the time we were guarded by the Ohio Home Guards, who had seen no service in the field and were consequently pretty rough in their treatment of us." He was sent to Point Lookout and held some months there. "Under pretext of exchange" he was taken back to Fort Delaware. From there he was sent to Charleston Harbor. The prisoners were kept for days upon the ship then landed on Morris Island and "placed in a stockage between Batteries Wagner and Gregg. ... As we entered it, every man was deprived of his blanket, if, as as the case with every one, it was a U.S. blanket captured on the battlefield, and nothing was given in exchange for it. Our guard, for the most part, was from the 54th Massachusetts ... This command had suffered severely in the assault on Battery Wagner, and was very bitter and insolent, and seemed, especially on the part of the free Negroes, bent on provoking an outbreak on the part of the prisoners, and an opportunity to shoot them down. A Negro Sergeant had charge of each company of prisoners, to call the roll and issue rations. These rations consisted of small crackers and a cup of bean soup with a bit of meat, only a few ounces ... issued each day ... from a camp kettle carried along the company street. ... The water given us came from pits dug in the low sandy soil, and our shelter was a small tent. ... Once a supply of food and tobacco, gathered and sent by the ladies of Charleston, was allowed to be distributed among us. But owing to some 'red tape' or other the food was almost all spoiled before we got it. The tobacco was of great service, not only to those who used it, but as a means of barter with the guards. At rare intervals a sutler's small cart with bread, molasses, paper and a few other articles was allowed to enter. ... A small loaf of bread was sold for 50 cents in U.S. currency." The group was sent on to Fort Pulaski, where they were guarded by a New York regiment that treated them kindly. About half the group were sent to Hilton Head Island, where they were "guarded by quite a large body of troops, principally Negroes. From the camp they were transferred "to wooden barracks near the point of the Island. These were large frame buildings divided into berths similar to those in a ship, and a long table ran the length of the room. About one hundred of us were allotted to the lower floor of one of these buildings, while the upper story was used as a hospital for Federal and Confederate sick or wounded." The 54th Massachusetts was again put over them. Soon after they entered these barracks, "an order, said to issue from General Foster, limited our rations to 10 ounces of cornmeal, four ounces of flour for each day, and for every five days a half pint of pickles and two ounces of salt." At this place Captain George W. Lewis of Company L, 1st Georgia, joined Finley in holding prayer meetings every Sunday and Wednesday nights. Upon departing from Hilton Head, Finley returned to Fort Delaware by way of Norfolk. "I was very feeble and almost blind. Bad as it had been and was the condition of those we had left at Fort Delaware, it was not as bad as ours, and our comrades, seeing our condition, kindly did all they could to relieve and help us. ... When the news of Lee's and Johnston's surrender came, the efforts to induce us to take the oath to the U.S. government were renewed and pressed, but the Virginia officers steadfastly refused, until about the middle of May. A meeting was held by them and it was determined that the time had come to yield." A "good lady in Baltimore, who had interested herself for me and my comrades, and whose name, long borne by one of my daughters, I would give now had I her permission to do so, went to work, and secured from General Grant an order for me to be released on taking the oath, and sent it by another lady to Fort Delaware. So under the goodness of God through these dear friends, I was released May 4, 1865, and taken to the home of my friend in Baltimore, treated most royally, and sent to Richmond. ... reached my home about the 21st of May, broken in health, but greeted by my mother, wife and children, and friends mercifully spared to me."