Tom --

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Let me offer a couple of general observations. You mentioned only one man in Company "K" who was captured, not all three. What leads you to believe that all three were prisoners of war?

The regiment was nowhere near Iuka when roll was taken. For that reason I doubt that the remarks section really says that any of them was in a hospital at Iuka MS. The 1st Sergeant (or whoever took roll) may not have known for sure where any of them were; only that they had been sent off for medical treatment. Hospitals had little or no clerical staff, so no one wrote the regimental commander to notify him that Private Temple had been admitted as a patient, or how his health was.

Information on the roll was the best available at that time. To answer your question, that's all the 1st Sergeant knew for sure, and even that much may have been subject to question.

I'll try to take a look at these to see if anything else was going on here.