Actually, he was only in custody at Nashville for a day or two before being forwarded (like most Dec. 16, 1864, Battle of Nashville captures) to the US POW camp at Louisville, KY, from whence he was forwarded to Camp Chase, Ohio, early in January 1865. He was released from Camp Chase in mid-June 1865 (not 1866) after taking the required the-war-is-over-so-if-you-want-to-go-back-home-you'd-better-take-this-oath oath. You can order his service record from the link at the top of this page. You can also look for the website that tells basically everything about "the Immortal Seventh" MS. And you can get the book ("Portals to Hell"?) that details just how miserable life was for CS POW's in those Northern hellholes. (And, yes, the Southern ones were hellholes, too.) -- Jim Huffman, GGG-grandson of Capt. H.J. Gully, 43rd MS Inf. Vols, twice a POW in the hands of the enemy