Civil War Records Help please [closed]

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I have a great grand uncle(Charles Francis Tallis-105) who served in the Confederate Army and was captured in the Vicksburg battle.  I have found 24 pages on his fold3 records. I can barely read some of the the copy is pretty bad. He is listed as a prisoner of war and signed an Oath of Allegiance. Can someone more familiar with Civil War records please tell me if he survived prison camp Camp Morton, Indiana. I have been unable to locate him after the war. One record on Ancestry is a list stating the date he was released. The problem with this record is it gives his age as 27 when he enlisted and he should have been much younger(https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1124/images/M598_102-0173?pId=1429471)

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I had provided a long detailed answer, but the post was closed before I could save it - so that information has been lost now.

Anyways, the short version is that these are clearly two different people. The Fold3 records are quite complete, and if you scroll both forwards and backwards in the slides, you can see a detailed history of Charles' service, including his enlistment in 1862 from Tishomingo County, Mississippi.

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If he was nine years old in 1860, as the census linked to the profile suggests, I doubt he fought in the Civil War.  I haven't viewed the rest of your documentation, but wonder if there is some confusion somewhere.

Edit:  I am not a Fold3 subscriber, so can't see the record(s) you've linked to.  I can see the Ancestry record, but can't reach any conclusions.

My best guess, based on the names and the same location, is that maybe your guy had an older cousin with the same name.  I've seen that in a lot of families.

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Thank you that makes more sense.  I have had trouble with this family because of the names. The fold3 records indicate the prisoner of war was son of a Thomas Tallis in Missouri because there is a letter with his name and address on it. The letter states he was 18 or 19 when he joined up. I also have missing children in this family. According to the 1900 Fed Census the mother Adrienne had 8 children of which only 3 were still living.