"I will humbly disagree about this group of people being a cohesive command. He really did not begin to get some of these groups pried out of the mountains until March 1865." I can certainly agree with your assessment. By "cohesive command", I meant he apparently got them together in one place to surrender. Somewhere I have read that Wofford treated with the Federal officer in command in the area to gather and distribute food and forage to the residents, who were no doubt in bad shape. Come to think of it, would the officer/unit Wofford surrendered to have forwarded a copy to Washington? Just a thought. Wofford was my folks' original CO in the 18th Georgia, ANV, and remained under his overall command at least into the Wilderness. Hence my interest. My GGF died at Seven Pines, great uncle Francis wounded at Spotsylvania, and captured at Roswell, Georgia July 11, 1864, while recovering from his wound; great uncle Alex was captured at Cedar Creek October 19, 1864, under Early. Stan