Richard Elam has been missing since the 1860 census Ashley County, AR. I rcently found the following: Richard Elam - Private - enlisted in Company A, 3rd Arkansas Infantry at Hamburg, Arkansas, March 20, 1862; captured at Chickamauga,Georgia, September 20, 1863; sent to US Military Prison at Camp Douglas, located just outside Chicago, Illinois; enlisted in 6th United States Volunteer Infantry at Camp Douglas, Illinois, May 5, 1865. I understand that the US government offered the confederate POWs the opportunity to escape the conditions in the Federal prison camps by joining the US army for frontier service, understanding that the Confederates would not be fighting against their comrades but would serve exclusively on the frontier. Does anyone know how to find out about the 6th US Volunteer Infantry and it's soldiers? Richard's wife, Barbara A. Engler Elam, moved from Ashley County, Arkansas to Lamar County, Texas in the late 1860's and is on the 1870 census for Lamar County without Richard. Thanks, Patricia