The Long Road Home When the war ended in 1865, many prisoners of the Confederacy, were released from Northern prisons and were a great distance from home. The Federal government did not offer money nor transportation for their return home. In many instances, these young, homeless, Southern men had to resort to “bumming” in the countryside to survive. Several were arrested for being a vagrant. A few made it to Washington D.C. where they appealed directly to Gen. U.S. Grant, who then offered transportation, subsistence or knew whom they could contact for help. Photo: Bernard Bluecher Graves, Corp., C.S.A.  Typed on negative sleeve: Bernard B. Graves joined the Hanover Artillery May 22, 1861. In Oct., 1862, he was transferred to the Amherst Artillery and fought with it the remainder of the war, a part of the time as a corporal. He was captured near Waynesboro, Va., Mar. 2, 1865 and imprisoned in Fort Delaware. He died at the age of forty-three. 

The Long Road Home

When the war ended in 1865, many prisoners of the Confederacy, were released from Northern prisons and were a great distance from home. The Federal government did not offer money nor transportation for their return home. In many instances, these young, homeless, Southern men had to resort to “bumming” in the countryside to survive. Several were arrested for being a vagrant. A few made it to Washington D.C. where they appealed directly to Gen. U.S. Grant, who then offered transportation, subsistence or knew whom they could contact for help.

Photo: Bernard Bluecher Graves, Corp., C.S.A. 

Typed on negative sleeve: Bernard B. Graves joined the Hanover Artillery May 22, 1861. In Oct., 1862, he was transferred to the Amherst Artillery and fought with it the remainder of the war, a part of the time as a corporal. He was captured near Waynesboro, Va., Mar. 2, 1865 and imprisoned in Fort Delaware. He died at the age of forty-three. 

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