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Charles A. Nash and brothers John J.N.Nash and Ira M. Nash enlisted in Co. B., 5th Mississippi Infantry at Enterprise, Ms in August 1861. However, Charles subsequently transferred to the 11th Mississippi. Charles A. Nash served with the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment for the duration of the war.

BG William F Tucker CSA who is a decendent of Thomas L Tucker.Tucker, William Feimster, 1827-1881.Biographical summary and historical and eulogistic sketches of William Feimster Tucker, native of Iredell County, N.C.; graduate of Emory and Henry College, 1848; school teacher, judge, and lawyer of Okolona, Chickasaw County, Miss. Tucker was married to Martha Josephine Shackelford in 1851; rose to the rank of brigadier-general in the Confederate army; and served in the Mississippi state legislature, 1876-1878. Tucker was born 9 May 1827 in Iredell county, North Carolina. He graduated from Virginia's Emory and Henry College in 1848 then moved to Houston, Mississippi. He taught school in Chicksaw county, Mississippi then in 1852 founded the Okolona Male Academy. In 1855 Tucker, although he had no legal training, was elected a county probate judge. Once a judge he studied the law and established a law practice. He was a practicing attorney in Okolona, Mississippi when the war began.

Tucker entered the Confederate service as a captain in the Chicksaw Guards which was mustered into service on 9 March 1861 as Company K, some sources say H, in the11th Mississippi infantry. The 11th became part of the 3rd brigade in Joseph E. Johnston's Army of the Shenandoah. Tucker and the 11trh fought at First Manassas then was sent back to Mississippi where the 11th was combined with other units and became the 41st Mississippi. Tucker was commissioned the 41st's colonel on 8 May 1862. He commanded the 41st, attached to the 2nd brigade/ 2nd division of Leonidas Polk's corps, during the fall 1862 Kentucky campaign and at Murfreesboro. Tucker commanded the 41st, then became part of the 1st brigade of Thomas Hindman's division, at Chickamauga and Chattanooga. Tucker was promoted to brigadier general on 11 May 1864, to date from 1 March, and was given command of a brigade which included his 41st and the 7th, 9th, 10th, and 44th Mississippi regiments. He was wounded at Resaca, Georgia three days after his commission as a brigadier was confirmed. Although never able to return to combat duty Tucker assumed command of the District of Southern Mississippi and East Louisiana in 1865. He negotiated the end of hostilities with Union Major General Napoleon Dana in April and May 1865.

Following the war Tucker returned to Okolona and his law practice. He served in the Mississippi state legislature from 1876 until 1878. His most significant contribution in the legislature was on the committee that recalled the hated Reconstruction governor, Adelbert Ames. Tucker again returned to the practice of law. To end his prosecution in a trust-fund theft case, hired gunmen shot and killed Tucker on 14 September 1881 in Okolona.

Fought from 1861 to 1862. Discharged to join 9th Cp I. To be with his Brother Wilbur William.

born 1841, died 02-20-1917, enlisted 06-01-1861, discharged 05-09-1865 buried in Beauvior Cemetery, Biloxi, Ms.

Captured Ford's Depot - April 1865
Prison Camp - Point Lookout, Maryland released June 1865
Returned to Lynchburg, Va. and married Jane Ann Pettis
Occupation - Carpenter - Served as a pioneer at times during the war.
Family originally from Lunenburg, Va. - father moved to Lafayette County Mississippi prior to war. Died in Washington DC in 1913.

Thomas Bashaw Collins, joined Co. B 'Neshoba Rifles' on 24 April 1861. He participated in most of the actions of the 11th Ms. Inf. until his death from small pox 28 February 1863. His father, my 3rd great grandfather, Thomas Duren Collins had willed all his property to Thomas B. Collins in 1860. Thomas D. Collins went to court to recover the final pay due his son after his death in 1863.

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1840-1861 Died of measles in Winchester, Virginia.

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Born 1840 in Cannon Co., Tennessee. Enlisted 24 April 1861 in Philadelphia, Neshoba Co., Mississippi. Captured on 2 July 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg. Died of smallpox 21 Jan 1864 at Ft. Delaware.

Born June 1845 in Neshoba Co., Mississippi. Enlisted 5 Sept 1863 at Philadelphia, Neshoba Co., Mississippi. Paroled by the 16th U.S. Army Corps on 9 May 1865 at Montgomery, Alabama. Moved to Yell Co., Arkansas after the war, last known to be living there in 1910. Date of death unknown at this time.

joined in 1861. was present in Picket's charge, wounded twice in left leg and left foot. Captured and exchanged. Sent to CS military at Charlottesville, VA. In hospital there until Aug. 1864 when he was retired to the Invalid Corp. Survived the war and moved later in life to Coryell, County Tx. He died there 24 April 1928 at the age of 91.

Died in Richmond on 13 June 1862 from wounds inflicted at the Battle of Seven Pines

This is my great grandfather. He enlisted in the Neshoba Rifles in '61 and the regiment went to Virginia. He fought throughout the war and was captured at Petersburg when it fell shortly before Lee's surrender. He was imprisoned at Pt. Lookout, MD and paroled to retun home in June 1865.

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Van was born in Winston Co. Miss 1840 he was 20 years old when he enlisted on 15 Sept 1861 at Camp Jones in the [Noxubee Rifles]. He contracted Measles soon after enlistment and his health never recovered. His unit moved to Virginia where he was declared medically unfit to serve and was discharged on 8 Nov 1861 by the Medical Director. Another record suggests that in five months he recovered and enlisted in [New Co.K] 41st Regiment Miss. Inf. on 19 April 1862 at Macon Miss. 22 July 1862 captured near Atlanta, Ga. sent to Louisville and on the Camp Case in Chicago, Ill. Released 6 April 1865.

Esom Dooley, age 19 died at home in 1862 as a result of wounds received at the battle of second Manassas. Esom is buried at College Hill Presbyterian Church Cemetery near Oxford, Mississippi.

Esom was the brother of George and James Dooley whom also served in the same unit.

On April 12th, 1861 the Civil War began at Fort Sumter. On May 4th, 1861 George left his job as clerk in Oxford, Mississippi and joined the 11th Mississippi Co. G. at age 22. George also had two younger brothers, James Franklin age 20 and Esom Burney age 18 who also joined Co. G. that year.

Family records indicate George was present at 21 battles. He was wounded in the summer of 1862 during the battle of Seven Pines and on May 10th, 1864 a bullet mortally wounded George in his left shoulder at Talley’s Mill, near Spotsylvania Courthouse, Va. He died on May 26th, 1864 at age 26 as a result of that wound. Due to bravery displayed at the battle of Talley’s Mill, George was awarded the Roll of Honor. He is buried in the Cumberland State Forest, Cumberland, Virgina alongside 6 unknown soldiers.

James Franklin Dooley attended the University of Mississippi from 1858 to 1861. The University of Mississippi shut down due to a majority of students joining the war. On August 6th, 1861 James joined his brothers George and Esom in the 11th Mississippi Co G.

James fought in 17 battles until he was taken prisoner after the battle of Gettysburg. Eight months later he was released for a prisoner exchange and joined the 3rd Mississippi Calvary under where he continued to serve until the end of the war.

After the war, James Franklin Dooley married and had seven children. In 1914 the University of Mississippi made good on a promise by paying the class of 1862 a belated honor by presenting James his diploma. James accepted the honor while proudly wearing his confederate uniform.

James Franklin Dooley also attended every confederate veterans reunion. He is featured in Life Magazine June 28th, 1937 issue dressed in his confederate uniform looking up at the statue of Jefferson Davis in the rotunda of the old capitol at Jackson, MS. At age 96, James was attending the 47th confederate veterans reunion. At age 98 James died peacefully in his sleep and is buried at Saint Peters Cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi.

James Gillespie enlisted on May 13TH 1861 and was captured in Petersburg, VA in 1865. He was also in Co. I.

When George was old enough, he walked down the road, when he heard the troops approaching their home, to join. He told his mother if he did not return than they took him in. It was then that he saw his father, William Elkins in the group. They didn't know what, if anything, had happened to him.

John Elkins
Regiment Name - 11 and 17 Consol'd. Arkansas Inf.

Son of William Elkins in the 11th Regiment, Missouri Infantry

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Lost his leg in battle..

Am researching W.P. Snowden, who was wounded and captured at Gettysburg while serving in Co. I of the 11th Mississippi Infantry. He was incarcerated at Johnson's Island and parolled at the end of the war. He was from Aberdeen, Mississippi and returned there.

My great-grandfather, Robert H. Hicks, joined Co K, 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (Carroll County Rifles) at Winona in April, 1861 and fought with that unit all through the war until parolled after Appomattox in April, 1865. He was never wounded. After the war he married and moved to Greenwood, MS where he held a number of positions. including being the town's mayor. He died February 13, 1923, at age 84, and is buried in the Old Greenwood Cemetery.

Born in Lexington, KY in 1835, Basil was wounded at the battle of Antietam. He died at Carrolton, MS in 1871.

Zedikiah Newton McMath
My 2nd great grand uncle, i.e., my great great grandfather's brother. --
Birth 16 Apr 1843 in Yalobusha, Mississippi, USA --
Death 6 Jul 1862 probably in Hospital in Richmon, VA from wounds received at Battle of Gaines Mill June 27, 1862.
Enlisted on 1 Apr 1861, from Carrolton, MS.
Occupation: Student.
Company K. Carroll Rifle
My other CSA ancestors: Americus Mitchell (Mack) Gill, 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment; William Warren Gill, 35th Mississippi Infantry (KIA Corinth); Charles W. Vasser, 5th Mississippi Cavalry (WIA Memphis, Captured. Died Smallpox, Alton, IL POW Camp.)

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Born 16 Apr 1835 in Philadelphia, died May 1909 in Carrollton, Miss.
Enlisted 11th Regiment, Co. K, Carroll County, Miss.
Transfered to 31st Miss Inf, Co. I, Carroll County, Miss as a Sgt. in 1862 where his brother in law, Capt. James Drane served.
1860 census lists his profession as 'lawyer.' In 1880, 'clerk in store.'

The following is an extract from the 'Confederate Veteran,' official organ of the United Confederate Veterans and published at Nashville, Tenn. The issue from which this extract was copied was dated December 1910.


H. D. Shaw, whose death occurred at his home, in Carrollton, Miss., in May 1909, was born in Philadelphia, Pa.,
seventy-five years ago, his father being from Massachusetts and his mother a Virginian. He came South when a mere boy.

Thoroughly imbued with the principles of pure patriotism and wedded to the State of his adoption, he enlisted as a private in one of the first regiments to be mustered in from Mississippi. As a non-commissioned officer he was in active service in different branches of the Army, both in Virginia and the Western Army, to the close and to the end of his life remained true to the principles for which he had suffered. The last work of his active life, at the age of seventy, was to devote his entire time to the raising of the fund with which to erect a monument to the twenty-seven hundred Confederate soldiers who enlisted from Carroll County, Miss. This he accomplished, and had the satisfaction of taking part in the unveiling of that monument now standing in Court Square, and one of the handsomest of its kind in the State.'

In the photograph of the event, he appears to be the individual sitting in the second row, left side, directly behind the front row lady in a large white hat. He is sitting with his 11th Mississippi, Co. K regiment, which was known as the Carroll County Rifles.

Wounded in Pickett''s Charge at Gettysburg 3 July 1863. Was captured on 5 July 1863 and exchanged after recovering from his wounds. He was among the troops who surrendered with Gen Robert E Lee on 9 April 1865 at Appomatox Court House.

Samuel was one of only 40 out of 350 members of the 11th Mississippi to survive Pickett''s Charge uninjured or captured. He was killed 6 May 1864 at the Wilderness.