>From Missing Links: AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. GALVANIZED TARS: Confederate Prisoners of War Who Enlisted in the Union Navy. Includes a list of a small number of these people. As the war progressed, and the Union prisoner of war camps continued to expand in numbers, conditions steadily deteriorated in these facilities. Many Confederate prisoners could no longer tolerate the conditions, and decided to take the Oath of Allegiance. Some of these men were recruited into the service of the Union. "Galvanized Yankees" was the term used to denote former Confederate prisoners of war who enlisted in the Union Army. "Galvanized Tars" is the term Terry Foenander uses for Confederate prisoners who took the Oath and joined the Union Navy and Marine Corps. Unlike most of the Galvanized Yankees who were sent west to serve against the Indians, thus avoiding contact with their former comrades on the eastern battlefields, it seems that the majority, if not all, of the Galvanized Tars served on Union Navy vessels or on-shore facilities in the eastern theater. Some used the opportunity to desert and return south, perhaps to fight again, but most served their full period of enlistment in the Navy. http://home.ozconnect.net/tfoen/galvanizedtars.htm --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.473 / Virus Database: 271 - Release Date: 4/17/03