This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xhC.2ACE/815.1 Message Board Post: I'd suggest reading the service record again because this information doesn't make sense. Huntsville Ala. was briefly in Confederate hands in December 1864, Southerners having to leave hastily the day after Christmas. Except for that time, the town was in Northern control from July 1863 until the end of the war. Also, to my knowledge no prison camp was established by either side in north Alabama. Confederates operated small prisons at Tuscaloosa and Montgomery for short times, a larger one being at Cahaba Ala. Confederates captured in the Tennessee Valley were forwarded to prison camps north of the Ohio River by way of Nashville Tenn. and Louisville Ky. Here's a map showing all the major prison camps for both sides: http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/11andersonville/11locate1.htm If you would go over the exact language on the service cards, that should help explain things.