These are my questions:
1. Can one get his service records with the above information? In other words, do medical staff have service records like those of fighting soldiers?
2. Were Confederate officers able to go through the lines and re-enter occupied New Orleans to visit family? Even if regular officers would not have been allowed to do so, would medical personnel be excepted? (This man had a first wife and children, and I am trying to figure out if they stayed in New Orleans or perhaps evacuated. A child was born in 1863, the timing of which would necessitate either a furlough to New Orleans, or the wife's residence closer to where he was serving, such as with family in Kentucky.)
3. How freely could women (and children) come and go from New Orleans during the occupation, if at all, particularly those whose husbands were serving in the Confederacy?
4. Did some or most families who had the means to do so evacuate when capture was eminent? Or did most civilians remain?
I would very much appreciate any information along these lines. Thank you very much.