[capitan_refugio]

"If you had a bullet wound to the shoulder and an amputated leg would you like to cross 500 miles of desert in the blazing hot sun?"

According to the records, the pow's asked to be returned to their own lines.

[GOPcapitalist]

According to the records, the pow's asked to be returned to their own lines.

If the alternative is sitting in a yankee prison camp in Illinois, then yes - I would desire to be returned to my own lines even if injured. It was a question of 500 miles across the desert to freedom versus over a thousand miles across the desert and plains to imprisonment.