Cpl.Hiram P.Deem was among the nearly six hundred troops(not wounded)of the 71st that were captured during the ambush of Col.John S.Scott's Confederate Cavalry Brigade on the retreating Federal column,approx 4 miles north of Richmond on the Lexington Pike(Present US 421). Like so many thousands of other farm boys crammed together for the first time with thousands of other men, Hiram got sick. The Confederates quickly paroled the thousands of prisoners they had captured so they could move on and take Lexington and Frankfort without being slowed down by a group of POW's nearly as large as Kirby Smith's army. I believe that Hiram died at home from typhoid fever that he had contracted during his brief time as a prisoner. That is the most plausible scenario that I have come up with, but let me know if you find anything else.

Mike