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Re: Confederate Service Records

Tom --

I believe the information on the cards you mentioned is different. Evidently William Temples was wounded and left in a field hospital near Iuka, Miss., Sept. 19, 1862. Confederate field hospitals were occupied by Federal troops the following day, so the last available news about him was dated Sept. 20, 1862. If you have his Federal prisoner-of-war exchange card, that tells us that Temples was released to Confederate authorities at a certain date and place. His status would still not be known to his regiment for some time yet.

The other records were probably made when the regiment was in camp near Holly Springs MS. At that time the other two Temples had been sent to a hospital. If they had been captured, you should expect to see similar if not identical language to that used for William Temples. As it is, I would assume they had been sent to a hospital somewhere south and/or east of Holly Springs MS.

Buckley is the name of a War Department clerk, not a Confederate records keeper. War Department clerks read the rolls and created cards like these.

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