One of the men you are about to meet, Aubrey Leavitt, was probably left behind by the Confederates because he could not walk. Can you find the evidence to support this supposition?

If you could meet Luther and Aubrey, what questions would you like to ask them?

Surprisingly, many of the 159 prisoners were back in the ranks of the 16th Maine by the end of the summer of 1863. Some apparently escaped from their captors, while others were paroled and exchanged for Confederates the Union Army had captured. Unfortunately, still others wound up in Confederate prisons, including the notorious Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Here are letters written long after the War by Aubrey Leavitt about himself and a fellow veteran of the 16th Maine, Luther Bradford. Both of them were prisoners at one time or another.

Here is what happened to the prisoners who did not escape from their captors.