are taking the oath of allegiance, or swallowing the yellow dog to be let out of the prison camps, elmira, point lookout, and so they are taking a look to an oath to the united states to go home. some of them stay in those prison camps for august, maybe longer. in any more questions. we have another gentleman here. >> i have got to confess, i never understood this whole parole process. the world of centralized databanks on the internet, if somebody surrendered in brookville, and they got a parole, and it was on a piece of paper, and they had to surrender their weapon, and they walked home, and they were challenged by a calvary patrol on their way home, and they said i have been paroled, i have got this piece of paper, how would the union not know it was a forgery, how do they know that this wasn't, i just don't understand how the whole thing functionally worked. >> you are right to point out, there is no overarching system. there are a couple different levels to that. the parole lists that are created at appomattox, and i'm going to defer some of these questions to ron and questions as we