The Loyalty Oath during the Civil War

[LincolnMan]

Many CSA POWs took the oath in Union prison camps and then served in 6 regiments of "Yankee" infantry volunteers that were sent to fight Indians along the Oregon Trail and Red River of the North. See Dee Brown, The Galvanized Yankees (Nebraska, 1963)

Wild Bill:
Your reply is excellent-thanks for the reference. Also, my memory was stirred by what you said-my confederate POW ancestor took the oath- and was supposed to serve out West in Indian campaigns. To my knowledge he did not keep that obligation.