Pamela:

You and I corresponded back in March 2010. I wrote you the following:

>>>Private John W. REAVES/REEVES, Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry was captured on 1 JUL 1863 at Gettysburg. Both the company muster rolls and the Federal POW records agree on this date. He was confined at Fort McHenry on 5 JUL 1863 and promptly forwarded to Fort Delaware arriving the next day 6 JUL 1863. He was transferred to Point Lookout on 20 OCT 1863 and arrived there on 22 OCT 1863. He remained at Point Lookout until February 1865 when he was included in a "humanitarian" release of sick and debilitated prisoners. He was paroled on 13 FEB 1865 at Point Lookout and delivered to Confederate authorities at Cox's Wharf on the James River over the two day period of 14/15 FEB 1865 as part of a group of 2,051 paroled prisoners of war. There are no further records in his file. However, from examination of many other records of returned POWs during this period, I can speculate that he was examined in the Wayside & Receiving Hospital at Richmond, and furloughed home as a paroled prisoner of war to recover his health. >>

Please contact the Fort Delaware Society at society@fortdelaware.org to complete our unfinished discussion.

Hugh Simmons
Fort Delaware Society