My maternal 2 x great-grandfather, John Harvey Cox of Sullivan County, TN may have been one that came back home. There's no record of him actually taking the oath and agreeing to stay " north of the Ohio. " There's actually not a lot of record for him to speak of. He was close to 40 when he was conscripted. His name is on the muster roll for Co.B 19th TN. Infantry. He is shown being captured July 3, 1863 at Cowan, TN. toward the end of the Tullahoma Campaign. That's why I asked about the 19th being involved in any " rear-guard fighting " It says " due to be held at Louisville. " He was to be forwarded from Nashville to Louisville. The last card in his file is dated March 1911, five years after his death, someone having something to do with the pensions in Tennessee is trying to find info on him. Family lore handed down through the years says he had several run-ins with the local home guard unit. One of those instances supposedly ended with a halfhearted attempt to hang him. He survived but was never able to speak above a whisper. I've been trying to piece together his movements for years, from being a prisoner of the Yankees, maybe as far north as Louisville, KY back to Sullivan County, TN. I do believe Lexington and Louisville were processing points for Rebel P.O.W.s before being sent north to a prison camp.