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Thanks, Jim - I think I will see if I can get that book through Interlibrary Loan from my local library - sounds very interesting.
I had written to the Northumberland Historical Society when I first began researching this incident but they had no knowledge of it. I'm sure that there were many Confederate soldiers and sympathizers that were caught up by the various Union military units sent to scour the area from time to time.
The "History of the First Maine Cavalry" describes a "foraging expedition through Northumberland and Westmoreland Counties" on March 3, 1863 in which they "arrived in camp (Falmouth) after five days absence, bring with it eight rebel prisoners, one of whom was a major, and eighty mules and thirty horses....". The dates meshed very nicely with the men's court-martial accounts and I thought that this unit was probably the one who captured them. But after reading the account of the capture of Scott, Dugan and Kemp, I'm no longer so sure. For one thing, Scott says that "a raiding party under command of a Michigan officer gobbled us up". For another, he didn't mention any other men being captured with them.
Thanks again, Teresa
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