After the surrender of the fort, many soldiers of the 110th United States Colored Troops were treated differently from white captives and, instead of being sent to prisoner of war camps, were sent by General Nathan Bedford Forrest to Mobile, Alabama. There Julius and Samuel Redus, George Allen, John Jackson, Doctor Peete, Moses Peete, and John Roberts were put to work by General Richard Taylor on the city’s fortifications and remained prisoners for eight months until Taylor surrendered to Union forces. Not all survived captivity: Samuel Redus became ill and died in a Nashville hospital on June 24, 1865; Julius Redus died two days later from complications of a blow to the head inflicted by a guard; and Moses Peete fell from the deck of the Natchez on the Alabama River and drowned, his body never recovered. John Jackson, Doctor Peete, John Roberts, and George Allen, despite an injury from a magazine explosion, returned to the regiment, served out their enlistments, and were discharged in February 1866. No longer enslaved, they then had to make their way in a new society.