The research on the book has turned up a lot of good information. Also busy locating and marking the graves of some of the members of the 50th in the area of Stewart and surrounding counties with VA markers. It seems that a lot of the members of the 50th decided that when their initial year of enlistment was up, which is all they volunteered for, that they would either return home or join the cavalry. Small groups of men would form up and then start north for home. As many of us that are veterans ourselves can somewhat understand, after being surrendered at Donelson, when they were beating Grant, they would never serve again in the infantry where irresponsible leaders could surrender them without being able to get away on horseback. The seven months in prison really turned many of them against bad leadership, just as most modern veterans detest much of the leadership in today's military. Some of the men of the 50th went home and joined the home guard, partisan rangers, Woodward, Helm, Morgan & others. We do know that Capt John "Jack" Hinson had over a hundred man Confederate home guard in the Stewart, Humphreys, and Dickson counties area during the war. Also, a former captain in the 14th Tennessee Infantry had become a captain of some sort of partisan rangers in the Fort Donelson area with at least one member of the 50th in it.
Greg