Found this entry today, I find it a bit confusing and would like other opinions on it. Why would he be a prisoner and confined to a Confederate hospital? Weren't Union POWs confinedto their own hospitals? Some violation of military law perhaps?
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Lewis Banks -- Negro Prisoner. Appears on a roll at C.S.A. Hospital, Farmville, Va. Compliant, Haemorrhoids. Feb. 27, 1865. Confederate Archive file 41, page 199.
