My Great Great Grandfather. Born 1827 Died 1867

Born 18 April 1834. A dentist in Natchez, MS.
Older brother of William Washington Riser in same company.

Born 27 Nov 1841.
Died in battle 16 May 1863 at Bakers Creek.

I live in South Texas. From Brookhaven, MS.

GREAT GRANDFATHER-

Enlisted 27March1862 in Choctaw, Ms. Died at the Vaiden Hospital on about 5 May 1863.

James has 23 cards in his archival file. He was 19 years old when he joined at Lexington, Mississippi. He was captured on 4 July 1863 at Vicksburg and paroled on the 7th. He rejoined his unit and was captured again at Blakely, Alabama and sent to Ship Island, Mississippi. His rank is listed as Sergt. Co D 1st Regt. Miss Art'y. He survived the war and died 1 May 1916 in California. He is the son in law of my 2nd Cousin 4x removed.

Another son of Burnell & Lucy Williams Land. Enlisted Floyd,La. 3-29-1862. ' on the rolls ' Jan-Apr 1863. ' on detached service ' Nov-Dec 1862. ' on sick furlough ' Sept.Oct 1862. No further record till ' paroled Vicksburg,Miss 7-7-1863. Family genealogy records say he died in the war. 1st Regiment, Mississippi Light Artillery 1st Artillery Regiment was organized during the late summer of 1862 with eleven companies. During the war the various companies served as both light and heavy artillery but not as one command. The regiment was assigned to the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and Companes A, C, D, F, G, I, K, and L were assigned to the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, Company E to the Trans-Mississippi Department, and Company G to the Army of Tennessee. All disbanded before the end of the war. Its commanders were Colonel William T. Withers, Lieutenant Colonel James P. Parker, and Majors Benjamin R. Holmes and Jefferson L. Wofford.

My GGG Grandpaw Richmond , born in Pike County, Mississippi Died in Pitkin,Louisiana buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Oakdale,Louisiana

Daniel, Fabius Vespucius, Private
Company G, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery

Born: 1835 in VA
Died: Houston, TX
Buried: unknown
Married: unknown
Children: unknown
Occupation: unknown

John Whitman was a rascal. He srved with a Mormon Wagon train in 1856 and met his future wife, Charlotte Hadlond, a Mormon pioneer and they left the church, started a family and they moved to Vicksberg before the war broke out. Then he joined the 1st. Was captured at the begining of the siege on May 18 and released June 9, 1863. He must have signed the Loyalty Oath but he was mad about it. They returned to St. Louis after the war ended and soon left with a group of former Conferderates to VENEZUELA to start a new 'South.' in 1867 - And to hunt for Gold.(CONFEDERATE EXILES IN VENEZUELA.) They returned to St. Louis dejected and settled in to the new UNION. His wife Charlotte put in for his pension after John Died in 1896 but the paperwork says he was in the PA infantry in 1861. This makes no sense but the names are correct. There is a lot about John G. Whitman at Ancestry.com. He was my great great grandfather.

Enlisted: 4/30/1862 at Natchez, MS. Rolls for 1/1863 through 2/1863 (last on file): Present. At close of war, detached with Dunlap''s Battalion Heavy Artillery at Grand Ecore, LA. Died: 4/22/1898. Buried: Greenwood Cemetery located at Shreveport, Caddo Parish, LA with his wife, Annie Tooley Scriber.

Granted a disability discharge in Aug 1864 at age 50. Had been captured and paroled at Vicksburg in July 1863, and re-enlisted after exchange. He held young slaves named Constantine and Violet who married and who are the ancestors of Oprah Winfrey. After the war, Absolom gave the couple a plot of land, where they lived out their lives in Montgomery County, MS.