Good! We have something in common....My ggrandfather Vernons' nephew Elijah Lockley was from Tallapoosa,Ala. and enlisted in Co.C. 55th Ala.Inf.Regt. and promptly captured at Champion Hill,Ms. in 1863.......He was then sent to Ft.Delaware,paroled,went back and rejoined his old unit and was re-captured at Gaylesville,Ala.in 1864..This time he was sent to Camp Douglas,Ill. and on April 6,1865 took the oath and joined the 5th US Volunteers to get out of prison....He was sent to Ft.Kearney,Nebraska where he deserted at the Cottonwood River Crossing,Kansas on June 18,1865...He then hightailed back to Alabama,took up with an older widow with 3 kids in Talladega; sent for his mother Nancy and they all lived together in the widows house from then on...He also found employment as a farm laborer and never assumed an alias. Elijah passed in 1898 still wanted by the Federal Government for desertion.