The records give no reason for Dr. Girardeau’s transfer, but it most likely reflected his fitness for duty in the field rather than any concerns about his performance at the Wayside Hospital. For the remainder of the war, he apparently served quite ably as a regimental surgeon at various posts in and around Charleston and Georgia, and was captured at Clingham, SC, on 14 February 1865. He was sent to the Federal prison at Fort Delaware, DE, and was exchanged on 23 March 1865, whereupon he returned to South Carolina, but apparently saw no further service. Records indicate that he was paroled in 1865.

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