alan polk
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Jun 11, 2012
Reading a bit about Grierson’s raid deep into Mississippi, I noticed that the Yankee troopers captured and then paroled a good number of Confederate soldiers.
This all happened deep in Confederate held territory.
Does anyone know how this worked in reality? I’m assuming there were no commissioners involved in such paroles. If there were not (and I can’t see how there could have been - Grierson did not say), were they conducted on some sort of honor system? Did Grierson take their names or something and later submit them to some data base?
I don’t know, but if I were a Johnny, and my mom was not around to hear me tell a horrible lie, I’d have just given a fake name to the blue coats and gone on with the business of fighting!
Anyhow, how did such things work to make it binding under the rules?
This all happened deep in Confederate held territory.
Does anyone know how this worked in reality? I’m assuming there were no commissioners involved in such paroles. If there were not (and I can’t see how there could have been - Grierson did not say), were they conducted on some sort of honor system? Did Grierson take their names or something and later submit them to some data base?
I don’t know, but if I were a Johnny, and my mom was not around to hear me tell a horrible lie, I’d have just given a fake name to the blue coats and gone on with the business of fighting!
Anyhow, how did such things work to make it binding under the rules?