Mr. Hodge - Thanks for the input. I have looked at some of the other resignations in this regiment and have noticed that the ones for medical reasons are usually pretty explicit. The one I saw for someone who was definitely doing a poor job as an officer was pretty explicit too. This one - for A. J. Lacy's captain, I. G. Woolsey - had scathing comments on it from Col. Dibrell. It was submitted at the end of August 1863 but Woolsey stayed on till he was wounded at Chickamauga, and then officially resigned. But I'm still puzzled why Lacy's commanding officers would let him return home, vs just knocking him down to sergeant, or corporal. When his pass was disapproved by someone on Bragg's staff, it was noted "This man is liable to conscription." I would take that to mean, don't let this man go home, and if he does in fact leave, we'll force him back into the army. Any thoughts?