As an example, this soldier has two cards in his file, his mustering in roll and this parole record:

________ Appears on a

Roll of Prisoners of War,

of Co. C, 1 Miss. Regiment Cav. Reserves, Confederate States Army, commanded by Maj. Jas. Mister, surrendered at Citronelle, Ala., by Lieut. Gen. R. Taylor, C. S. A., to Maj. Gen. E. R. S. Canby, U. S. A., May 4, 1865, and paroled at Columbus, Miss., May 16, 1865.

Roll dated Columbus, Miss., May __, 1865