Lyle,
As I understand it Once you swore oath to the USA, you were sent home, you
made the best way you could. Your were allowed you Rifle to shoot game.
These people were use to living off the land. I am sure that you could have
gotten rides, or hopped freight trains.
I f you had a horse you were also allowed to keep it. Larger cities were
supplied with bread and soup kitchens.
The frist year after the war in the south must have been hell.
Lyn

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> As I was driving back through Appomattox yesterday, it occurred to me that
> while the big picture was the surrender and effective end of the Civil War
> took place there. What happened then? The Union Army had administrative
> control of its troops because they were in the army and it was responsible
> for their care and feeding. But what of the CSA folks who had no effective
> governmental unit to take care of them and to provide them transport home.
> If I remember correctly, the US Army fed the, but then what? How did these
> thousands upon thousands of people (not just Lee's Army folks, but the
> entire CSA contingent all over the South at the various surrender points)
> get home? One foot in front of the other? Train transport? Was there
> anything organized for them by the USA? Also, for the former POW's, once
> released, how were they able to return home?
>
> Any info for a thought provoked by driving by in comfort on a paved road
> seeing the open fields and signage would be gratefully received.
>
> Lyle Browning
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