Hello. I do hope you can find the information you are searching for.
However, my opinion for what it is worth is that I seriously doubt he was given a release for "medical reasons."
You are working under a nowadays thought process that the Union soldiers cared for these prisoners.
The prison is what killed your relative-the treatment he received there-and that is what you need to understand. There was no mercy for anyone that wore the CSA uniform.
There is no way in my opinion that the Yankees were going to release some poor sick rebel out of the goodness of their hearts.
Now you can call that the voice of experience.
Linda T. Acrey
(A descendant of CSA Lt. Fielding Price, 1st Arkansas Cav.
who d. Feb. 1, 1865 in the Yankee Prison in Little Rock.
His death was brought about by the small pox that he contracted in that filthy nasty place.
After the fact, "a nice Yankee soldier" came and told Fielding's poor widow, who was 8 months with child, that Fielding Price could be bought out of that prison.
So that nice Yankee managed to beat her and her houseful of children of what little they had left because the wife had sold everything trying to get Fielding out and he was already dead.
Now that was the way it really was!)