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/xFh.2ACEB/1743.2365.2366.2421.2423.1 Message Board Post: I know Elias James son of Blassengame fought in the battle of Mobile. I've read where all surviving confed. soldiers were sent to prison camp off coast of Mississippi. After war some were transported to New Orleans? Elias was the first Hamilton of my line to SW LA where I live.