You're quite welcome Mark. Actually, I am not from the Savannah area – I live about four hours away in Florida. I first became interested in Laurel Grove North Cemetery because while doing research on Cobb’s Legion Cavalry Battalion, I found out the remains of eight men from this Georgia unit, who had been killed at Hunterstown, PA during the Gettysburg Campaign, were relocated there in 1871. I contacted the cemetery and they told me about the booklet List of Confederate Soldiers Interred in Soldiers’ Lots, Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia and I’ve also been there a couple of times.

I don’t know of any local historian who may have more information on the Confederate prisoners exchanged there. As far as what may have happened to these men, I would say that since it was so late in the war, the healthy ones were probably ordered to join units in the area who were helping defend Savannah against Sherman and after its fall, they probably stayed with the units they had joined up with as the Confederates moved northward during the Carolinas Campaign. If this is true, then there are probably more Virginians, who were among the group received at Venus Point in November of 1864, buried at cemeteries in both of the Carolinas.