Hey Hugh, I am finishing a manuscript on Culpeper's SC battery....the only SC troops captured at Fort Blakely and imprisoned on Ship island. Most of the men were shipped from Ship Island on May 1, 1865 and were paroled at Camp Townshend on May 6. A number of the men were actually paroled at Augusta, Georgia on May 20.....would these be men who simply left the boats at Vicksburg and headed home without getting an official parole back in Mississippi? Thanks for your help.
Rett Floyd