This was my great great grandfather. He is buried in Enon Cemetery, Alba, TX, with a 22nd Miss. Regi C.S.A. headstone. See headstone at this link http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=55422507

This is from the National Park Service website:
Gwin , Sylvester

Battle Unit Name:
22nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
Side:
Confederacy
Company:
A
Soldier's Rank In:
Second Lieutenant
Soldier's Rank Out:
Captain
Alternate name:
Film Number:
M232 ROLL 16
Plaque Number:
Notes:
none

Looking for information on service records of my great-great grandfather.

My great grandfather, John H. Blackmon (Blackman), son of Henry J Blackmon (1814-1876 ?) and Winniford Ann Hedgepeth, was born in 1841 in Marion county, Mississippi- however, by 1860, he and his family had removed to Lawrence county. On 5 April 1861, he enrolled as a private in Capt Prestige's Company Mississippi Volunteers at Monticello, Lawrence county, Mississippi. This unit later became Company A 22nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment (also known as Bonham's Regiment Mississippi Volunteers for a short time). He was mustered in on 27 July 1861 at Iuka, Mississippi, and remained with this same Regiment for the duration of the war- fighting at Shiloh, Corinth, Baton Rouge, Coffeeville, Vicksburg, Champion Hill, Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Franklin, Kinston- and all of the other battles involving the 22nd Mississippi. Near War's end, about 9 April 1865, this Regiment was combined with the 1st Regiment, 33rd Regiment and 1st Battalion Mississippi Infanry- to form a new Regiment, which was then designated as the Combined 22nd Regiment Mississippi Infantry. Other engagements included Bentonville and the final surrender in North Carolina on 26 April 1865. He was wounded on several occasions- with serious wounds taken near Peachtree Creek. At war's end, he was paroled from Company H Combined 22nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment 28 April 1865 at Greensboro, North Carolina. He married Louisa King (nee Thornhill)(1842-1904), and they had 7 children together. I am descended through their son, Thomas Marion Blackmon (1875-1943). John H Blackmon's date of death is unknown, but thought to have been in 1896 from pneumonia -- his grave site also remains unknown.

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Captain Thomas Hooker, 22nd Mississippi Infantry company A,is son of Hymbrick Hooker, 22nd Mississippi Infantry Company G. Both served in 22nd Mississippi and both buried at Old Bethany Cemetery close to Godley TX. He died in 1927.

Born: Nov. 13, 1838 and died Oct. 7, 1924. According to his pension applications obtained from the Mississippi Department of Archives, he enlisted July 27, 1861, in Lawrence County, Mississippi. He was seriously shot in the left arm and hip December 25, 1864 near Pulaski, Tennessee, as the regiment was retreating after the Battle of Sugar Creek. He was transferred to Lauderdale Springs Hospital. He refused to have the arm amputated and had little if no use of it for the rest of his life.

Thomas was killed while acting as colorbearer.

my great,great, grandfather

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Francis Marion Sanders was 18 years old when he joined the 22nd Mississippi in 1861. Except for times when we was detailed as a teamster, he served through the war with the regiment. He was wounded at the Battle of Nashville in December 1864.

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My GGG Grandfather. Fought at Bentonville, NC before Lee's surrender. Was paroled at Greenboro, NC and went home to Prentiss, MS. Died 2 Jul 1898.

This is my gg uncle. His sister married my great grandfather Lycurgus Ashley Stevens

Augustus later fought in the Spanish American War.

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There were 4 Stevens brothers in this unit. Lycurgus Ashley, Augustus Henry, Calvin Jones and Thomas V.

Thomas's service records show that he was wounded and captured at the Battle of Franklin on November 30, 1864. I can find no record of him after the war or a gravesite.

Johnson enlisted Apr 30, 1861. He was in Grenada Co, MS where he died of probably disease/illness on Apr 8, 1862.
Johnson has 2 headstone where he is buried at Black Hawk Cem in Carroll Co, MS:
'Johnson B. Gailey, Co C, 22nd Miss Inf, CSA'
'J. B. Galey, died Apr 8, 1862, age 42 years'

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Wagoneer. Teamster. Joined April 1861. Liberty Guards. Died 1915 Gloster, MS. Buried in Roseland Cemetery

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Samuel J.W. Nix was my great,great,great grandfather. He organized the ' Liberty Guards' in April 1861. He was wounded at Shilo on April 6, 1862. I would like to hear from anyone that may have info on him and his regiment.

Will Underwood was My Great Grandfather. He enlisted in the Liberty Guards on April 29th 1861. He was promoted to 2nd Lt. in January of 1862 and then to 1st Lt. in March of 1863. He was severely wounded on July 20th 1864 at the battle of Peachtree Creek and fell very close to federal entrenchments. His comrades were unable to retrieve him and he was taken prisoner.Will was sent north to Johnson Island on Lake Erie where he spent the rest of the war in a prison for Confederate officers.Will had two brothers and three future brothers-in-law in Co.E with him.

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D. W. C. Bonham was born in Pennsylvania about 1818, and married Mary F. Gwin, May 15, 1845 in Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi. He owned a large plantation in Issaquena County, Mississippi. He and Company G were at Camp Beauregard Kentucky in the fall of 1861 were he died of pneumonia between November 1861 and January 1862. Maybe...
This regiment was formed at Iuka in the summer of 1861 of companes that were early organized but had not been able to get into regiments for active service. .... Company G, after its organization, waiting vainly for orders, lost many members who joined other commands in the field; after the battle of manassas reorganized and enlisted for the war, arrived at Iuka July 30, expecting to join the Twentieth Regiment. It being full, Captain Reid and Captain Nix went to Richmond and secured the enrollment of their commands as independent companies. September 10 they were ordered to Memphis, Tenn., where Colonel Bonham had gone with his incomplete regiment, the Twenty-Second. These reminiscenses illustrate the formation of the regiment.
Bonham's Regiment was completed at Memphis, and on September 23{1861} reported to General Polk at Columbus, Ky., where they remained until after the battle of Belmont, Novermber 7, of which they were spectators, without being called into action. After this they were ordered back to Union City, Tenn., and thence marched to Fulton, Ky., the night of October 1. October 6 they went into winter quarters at Camp Beauregard, in Graves County, Ky., and remained there until Christmas, making several expeditions meanwhile to Mayfield and Columbus, and once marching in the night to within six or eight miles of Paducah. There were many sick and a considerable number died, among them Colonel Bonham, of pneumonia, in November. The regiment was reported November 30, 795 present, and a part of the brigade of Gen. John S. Bowen at Camp Beauregard. After Christmas they were moved to Clarksville, and thence to Bowling Green, December 29, where they were in winter quarters until February 12, when, on account of Grant's advance to Fort Donelson, General Johnston was compelled to retire to Murfreesboro, Tenn. They were at Nashville the day of battle at Fort Donelson and could hear the artillery. The regiment was about 580 strong in January and was brigaded with the Twenty-fifth Mississippi under Bowen. (Written by Dunbar Rowland)

D. W. C. Bonham may have been alive well into 1863 according to family letters. His obituary has not been found by many family researchers and his last resting place has not been found either. Although it is stated to be in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

In 1892, in Chicago, listed on the Voter Registration Rolls is D. W. C. Bonham born in Pennsylvania, a 20 year resident of that state and 6 year resident of Chicago. Not proof positive he was still living, but he did have a very singular name.

DeWitt Clinton Bonham I, bn. 1819, had a brother, Jacob Dritt Bonham. Jacob married Matilda Zook in PA, and they had a son named DeWitt Clinton Bonham II in 1846 in PA. DWC Bonham II was listed in several Chicago lists...voter's list and Blue Book social list with his wife known as 'Mrs. Bonham'. De Witt Clinton Bonham I, died at Camp Beauregard, KY of disease in Dec. 1861. His burial place is not known, and I have researched it extensively. He is listed in Fisher Funeral Home records in Vicksburg as having died, but is listed as being buried in LA. He is not found in any Vicksburg, MS Cemetery. I've been there and read all the cemetery lists as well as toured the cemeteries.

After his father's death (JB Galey) in 1862 with the 22nd MS Inf Co A, William Galey, 18, followed his father's footsteps and enlisted with the 22nd MS Inf, Co G in 1864. After serving less than 7 months, William was killed at the Battle of Franklin, TN.

Hymbrick Hooker was my 2nd great grandfather. He was in 22nd Mississippi infantry, Company G. He is buried in Old Bethany Cemetery near Godley, TX. Death 7/28/1885.

My 2nd Great Uncle whose brother, Zedekian Newton McMath, Pvt. 35th MS Inf Regt was killed at Battle of Corinth.

John survived the war and died in 1874

Name listed on roll of 22nd Mississippi Infantry Company G, Black Hawk Rifles (raised in Carroll County, MS). Roll dated 06 Sep 1861 with A G Smith listed as a private. Also, listed on roll of Company G in Greensboro NC, at the end of war, dated 26 Apr 1865 as A G Smith. After war returned to Black Hawk, Carroll, Mississippi and to his 1st wife Laura M. Marshall, and child had 4 more children. 2nd wife Martha J. Stoops, had 6 children. Listed on the 1880 census,died between 1887-1900. Buried at Emory Methodist Church Cemetery, Emory, Holmes County, Mississippi, USA. This is my great grand father.

James Joseph Street was born in Lincoln County TN March 18m 1924 and died September 7, 1916 in Tippah County, MS. He enlisted April 30, 1861 as Pvt in CO G. 22nd MS Regt Infantry during the war between the States. He was a prisoner of War in Alton, Illinois from July 26, 1864 until June 15, 1865 and was discharged April 26, 1865 on his oath of Allegiance.

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Wounded at the Battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. Transferred to Captain J. K. Barry's Company B first Mississippi regiment of calvary because wounds left him unable to perform duty in the infantry service.

Robert M. Kelly (also spelled Kelley) enlisted 17 April 1862 in Corinth, MS by Capt. Prestidge; discharged 26 April 1865; wounded 22 July 1863 in left hand; appears on register of 1st MS C.S.A. Hospital in Jackson, MS on 5 April 1864 for one day. Wounded on 13 August 1864 and sent to hospital. Under Captain Formby; Commander Featherston. Died 20 February 1903 of pneumonia and buried at Indian Springs cemetery.

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It was believed that he was a shoemaker during the war. But, according to widow's pension applications of his 2nd wife, Mrs S. J. Carter of Lafayette Co. MS, her husband R. B. Carter (whom she married in 1884) served in Co. K, 22d Mississippi

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W M Jacks joined the company in May 1861 at Greensboro Ms (county seat) with his brothers: James Richard and Riply C. He, along with his brothers enlisted in Confederate service at Madison Station MS in July 1864, when the copany was made a part of the 24th MS. They were with the regiment in Florida, and when it moved to Corith via Chattanooga in March-April 1862. He died of diease in May of '62.

Albert Monroe Johnston born 1840.
Enlisted in Co K 22nd Mississippi Infantry in 1861 ,Lafayette County, Mississippi.
Fought with the 22nd Miss Inf at Shiloh,Tn. Baton Rouge, La.
wounded at Corinth Oct 3, 1862.
Transferred to Co F 1st Partisan Rangers ( 7th Miss Cavalry )
in Feb 1864 due to leg wound received at Corinth.
Served until the surrender at Columbus in 1865.
Buried at Dunn, Scurry County, Texas

Henry P. Zinn, of Pontotoc Co., MS, enlisted on August 12, 1861 in Iuka, MS, by Captain Perry. He entered service as a corporal, but ended his service as a private. He was captured after being sent home sick around August of 1862, then paroled near Oxford, MS (captured '5 Miles from Surrepto) on 21 December of 1862 (at the age of 20) until exchanged. He was present with his unit in July of 1863 until February of 1865. He was held as a POW until released when he signed the Oath of Allegiance to the United States in Memphis on April 18, 1865 at the age of 22.