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36th Mississippi Infantry
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Company Unknown
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william hawkins anderson - Unknown
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paroled at vicksburg miss. 1863
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Company Unknown
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- .Wright Rufas Fore - Unknown
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Buried in the Old Ocklawaha Bridge Baptist Church Cemetery, Ocala, FL, USA / Headstone reads 36th Mississippi Infantry
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Contact Name:
Tootsie Fore
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Date Added: 6/10/2012
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Company Unknown
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Ambrose Fore - Private
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Recruted from Scott Co, Mississippi
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Contact Name:
Tootsie Fore
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Date Added: 6/10/2012
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Company Unknown
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Daniel Fore - Private
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Recruted from Scott Co, Mississippi, USA/ NPS M232 roll 13
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Contact Name:
Tootsie Fore
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Date Added: 6/10/2012
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Company Unknown
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Stephen Richmond Gilbert - Private
Contact Name:
James P Gilbert
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 1/25/2019
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Company Unknown
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Bailey Smith - Corporal
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Bailey Smith was my great-great grandfather. I have a great deal of information on his lineage I'd be glad to share.
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Company Unknown
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Wade H. Williamson - Unknown
Contact Name:
scott henderson
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 5/22/2012
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Company Unknown
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W W Witherspoon - Colonel
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He was my great, great uncle. His sister was my great, great, grandmother.
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Contact Name:
Sheilah Broughton
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 1/11/2010
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Company Unknown
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W. W. Witherspoon - Colonel
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W. W. Witherspoon was in command of the 36th Infantry and was killed in action on a charge
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Contact Name:
William M. Bunting
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/27/2005
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Company A
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John Whitfield Bailey - Private
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John Whitfield Bailey is my Great Grandfather. He fought at
vicksburg and after the surrender he rejoined the 36th and
was captured near Nashville, Tenn. He spent the last months
of the war at Camp Douglas Ill. After the war he returned to Copiah Co. Mississippi (Allen) and raised a large family. He
is buried at the Old Providence Cemetery (Midway) in Copiah Co. Mississippi.
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Contact Name:
Joel T. Bailey
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Date Added: 10/8/2010
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Company A
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Isaac Newton Furr - Private
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My g-g-grandfather, a farmer from Copiah County. Fought at Vicksburg. Returned to Copiah and raised a large family - three children by his second wife and six by his third. His cousin, Isham Furr, fought in the same outfit but was killed at Vicksburg at age 17.
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Contact Name:
James Stafford
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Date Added: 7/19/2020
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Company A
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Russell Wade Goodson - Private
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Russell was my gg grandfather who was born in 1820 in AL. He was married to Martha Jones in Newton Co in 1848. They lived in Covington and Copiah Co after that. They moved to TX following the war from Copiah Co., Ms to Wood Co., TX. In later years, the moved to Anderson Co., TX where both died and are buried at Old Pilgrim Cemetery in Elkhart, TX. He died in 1890 and she in 1900.
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Company A
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Wm. Randall Pierce - Private
Contact Name:
Leslie Pierce Royce
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 7/23/2004
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Company A
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joseph bonaparte reed - Private
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Company A
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David L.C. White - Private
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Wounded at Shiloh, transported to Confederate Hospital in Gainsville Alabama. Died there from wounds and buried in Gainsville.
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Contact Name:
Richard L White
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 9/19/2016
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Company A
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Jonathan Monroe White - Sergeant
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Company B
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William Garrison Clement - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/19/2004
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Company B
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George Washington Clower - Corporal
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Company B
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Enos Donahoe - Private
Contact Name:
Kristi Maynard
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 9/28/2013
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Company B
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John A. Hennington - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/19/2004
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Company B
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William Garrison Hennington - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/16/2004
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Company B
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Clark M Johnson - Private
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Company B
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Junious P Rutledge - Private
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Junious served in the Battle of Corinth, Battle of Vicksburg, Battle of Atlanta at Kennesaw Mountain where he was captured and sent to Camp Douglas prison camp for 11 months until after the war was over.
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Contact Name:
Geoff Rutledge
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 6/13/2012
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Company B
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David C. Slay - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/19/2004
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Company B
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Nathan W. Slay - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/19/2004
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Company B
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Sylvester Sojourner - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/19/2004
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Company B
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Wesley F. Sojourner - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/19/2004
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Company C
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William E Jones - 1st Sergeant
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Not a relative, but ran across his marker in Sehorn Cemetery, Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas, and wanted to add him to his group.
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Company C
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John Ellis Lindsey - Private
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Buried in Chapel Hill Cemetery, Jachin, Choctaw Cty., AL.
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Company C
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Norvell Slay - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/19/2004
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Company C
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George W. Warren - 1st Lieutenant
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Company D
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Green Berry Boler - Private
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Received the Southern Cross of Honor.
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Company D
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Jesse B Chipman - Private
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1834-1863 Killed during the Siege of Vicksburg.
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Company D
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William Harper Cooksey - Unknown
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had him in the 32nd should have been here in the 36th
this was my Great grandfather.
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Company D
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Benjamin Cobb Germany - Corporal
Contact Name:
Randy Arrick
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 4/18/2004
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Company D
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James R. Hennington - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/19/2004
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Company D
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Isaac Hollingsworth - Private
Contact Name:
J. Wren Harris, Jr.
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 11/1/2009
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Company D
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c w jenkins - Unknown
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My GreatGrandfather is buried at Golden Grove Cemetery in Neshoba County Ms. C W Jenkins 36th inf.Co. D.
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Contact Name:
Cathy Jenkins Campbell
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 11/23/2010
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Company D
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Alexander McCullough - Private
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Wounded and captured in the battle of Cornith, Miss on Oct 3-5, 1862.
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Contact Name:
Ralph McCullough
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 6/22/2008
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Company D
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Andrew Jackson McCullough - Private
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Died at Lauderdale Springs on June 21 1862
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Contact Name:
Ralph McCullough
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 6/22/2008
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Company D
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Jasper McCullough - 1st Sergeant
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Served from Feb. 22, 1862 until the end of the war in 1864.
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Contact Name:
Ralph McCullough
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 6/22/2008
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Company D
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Joel Patterson - Private
Contact Name:
Logan Patterson
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 12/24/2013
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Company D
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James C. Warren - 2nd Lieutenant
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James C. Warren was my GG Grandfather. He died September 5, 1864 and is buried at Lovejoy, GA.
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Company E
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Alexander Sanders Alford - 2nd Lieutenant
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I’m a direct descendant of Alexander Alford through my maternal line. I’d be very interested in learning more about the regiment and hopefully finding a photo of him that I could keep. -Samuel
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Contact Name:
Samuel Adams
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Date Added: 5/13/2021
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Company E
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Andrew Jackson Farmer - Private
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Andrew Jackson Farmer was my great-great-grandfather. He volunteered for duty March 8, 1862 in Meridian, MS, at the age of 18 years old. His company was known as the Hazlehurst Fencibles. He served until the close of the war and then married Mary Caroline Beasley. Together they raised nine children. He lived in Copiah County all his life and died Sept. 9, 1909. Andrew is buried at the Strong Hope Cemetery in Strong Hope, MS.
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Contact Name:
Laurie Milano
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/25/2007
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Company E
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William Henry Izard - 3rd Corporal
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Enlisted as a Private on 11 March 1862 at the age of 17.
Promoted to 3rd Corporal in September 1862.
Surrendered at Vicksburg, MS on 4 July 1863.
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Company E
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Benjamin F. Young - Private
Contact Name:
Gayle Hennington
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/19/2004
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Company F
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Reuben M Beasley - Unknown
Contact Name:
Len Vernamonti
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/7/2008
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Company F
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William Denson Burnham - Sergeant
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Sgt.William D.Burnham's ancestors were from Pasquotank County, North Carolina.
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Company F
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Anguish K. Fairley - Private
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born 1840, died 1912, enlisted May 1861, discharged 05-04-1865, buried in Salem Cem., Avent, Ms.
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Contact Name:
James Trussell
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 8/5/2010
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Company F
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Richard Ross Gandy - Private
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Richard was born Oct. 1822 in Eutaw, Greene Co, Alabama. He enlisted 5 March 1862 at Meridian, Miss. for one year and mustered 1 April. He was enlisted by G.D. Tolson into Capt. T. J. Denson's Co. [Hillsboro Rebels] He has 3 cards in his archival file. Richard suffered poor health as he had lung issues. He was discharged for disability on 20 April 1862. He died 20 July 1878 at Manchaca, Travis County Texas.
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Contact Name:
Phillip Thomas
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 11/11/2023
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Company F
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Harmon Pullin - Private
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My gg grandfather, Harmon Pullin, died 9 Jul 1862 from wounds sustained in battle. I would like to know where and circumstances.
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Company F
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Raleigh Seaberry - Sergeant
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R. Seaberry (Rol Seaberry) was captured @ Vicksburg in virtue of the capitulation of the City of Vicksburg and its garrison by Lt. Gen. John C Pemberton CSA, 4th July 1863. Paroled July 7th, 1863, signed July 7,1863, Vicksburg MS
Raleigh was born Dec 6,1827, Bibb Co AL. Married Rebecca Altman Nov 21,1849. Died Dec 26,1908, Poolville, Parker Co. TX. Buried in the Poolville Cemetary.
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Company F
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John H. Shepperd - Private
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born 09-23-1820, died 09-05-1895, enlisted May 1861, discharged 05-04-1865, buried Pipkins Cem. Avent, Ms.
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Contact Name:
James Trussell
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 8/5/2010
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Company F
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Emmanuel G. Skinner - Private
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Company F
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Philip M. Steed - Private
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Company F
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William W. Stewart - Corporal
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Died at Camp Chase POW 4-14-1865, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio, USA
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Contact Name:
Karen Hufham
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 1/22/2016
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Company G
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Moses Hartline - Private
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4th cousin of mine. Captured at Vicksburg, MS, 4 July 1863.
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Company H
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David A. Land - 3rd Sergeant
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Son of Burwell Land & Lucy Williams. Enlisted at Meridian,Miss,age 26,1,Apr.1862.' traveled 54 miles to place of rendezvous ' 'on the rolls ' but hospitalizied thru June 30,1862. On the rolls till captured at Marietta,Ga. July 3,1864. Sent to Louisville,Ky then to Camp Douglass,Ill.where he died Dec.20,1864. ' buried in grave #287 block 2 Chicago,City Cemetery.
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Company H
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Christopher Columbus Neal - Corporal
Contact Name:
William Neal
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 8/30/2010
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Company H
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Christopher Columbus Neal - Corporal
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He was surrendered at Vicksburg on 7-4-63 and paroled 2 months later. He rejoined his unit and was captured at Altoona, Ga in Oct 64. Spent the remainder of the war at Camp Chase (Columbus), Ohio as a POW.
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Company H
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John W. Stidham - Private
Contact Name:
Curtis Stidham
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 2/5/2010
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Company H
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Christopher Columbus Whitman - Private
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Christopher joined the 36th Mississippi Infantry in Oct. 1862 as Pvt. Looks like he re-upped for another year and was captured in 1863 or 1864 and later paroled. His civil war photo is on ancestry.com at the Barnes/Whitman family tree - holding a Bowie knife and a 1849 police colt and looking rather menacing with full beard and scowl. He was my great great grand uncle. His brother John G. Whitman, my great great grandfather, served in the 1st Mississippi Light Artillery and was captured at Vicksburg and later paroled - he signed the loyalty oath. Christopher died at 50 in 1875 and is buried in a family plot in Arkansas. Of note, Christopher and his father Samuel had owned slaves in Perry, Alabama noted in 1850 Federal census. Most CSA soldiers had no such history.
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Contact Name:
Thomas Barnes, M.D.
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Contact Homepage: www.drthomasbarnes.com
Date Added: 1/20/2014
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Company I
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Thomas David Biggs - Private
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David was born Feb. 27, 1826 in Covington Co. Ms. to James and Rebecca Biggs. Married Melissa Ferguson in Newton Co. Ms.
David was captured June 19,1864 near Marietta, Ga. He was imprisoned at Camp Morton in Indianapolis, Indiana. He died Jan. 28, 1865 at Camp Morton and buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in lot 32. His brother in law John Dixon Monroe would also die at Camp Morton ll days later. They enlisted at Hickory, Ms. in April 1862 with the 36th Mississippi.
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Contact Name:
Maxey Baucum
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Date Added: 11/12/2012
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Company I
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William Andrew Clark - Unknown
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W.A.Clark was in Company I, 36th Mississippi Regiment, Sears Brigade, French's Division of Pope's Corps. He was in the Battles of Shiloh, Iuka, Corinth, Synder's Bluff and was taken prisoner at Vicksburg in 1863 and spent two years in prison camp on Ship Island, off Gulfport.
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Contact Name:
Margaret Ellen Henry
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Date Added: 12/14/2011
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Company I
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John Fairley - Private
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born 05-08-1832, died 03-21-1913, enlisted 02-21-1862, discharged 05-04-1865, buried in the Fairley Fam. Cemetery, George Cty. Ms.
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Contact Name:
James Trussell
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Date Added: 8/5/2010
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Company I
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James Madison Godwin - Private
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Newton Co. MS resident. Born 1846 to William Kinchen Godwin and Bathsheba (Cook) Godwin. Served as a replacement for Jesse M. Pace and was 16 years old when he entered. Was released, April 15th, 1863, just before the battle of Vicksburg at Snyder's Bluff reason : under age.
Later joined the the 4th MS Cavalry, with his brother, Drury, and was wounded at Harrisburg MS. Captured in Summit MS in 1864 and was a prisoner at Ship Island, MS in the Gulf until the end of the war.
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Contact Name:
Thomas Godwin
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Date Added: 10/26/2015
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Company I
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WILLIAM RICHMOND JOHNSON - Private
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He was my Great Grandfather. He was from Beat 2, Newton County.
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Contact Name:
BRUCE R. JOHNSON
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 8/6/2011
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Company I
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John Dixon Monroe - Private
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Pvt. John Monroe was born 1829 in Jasper Co. Ms. Son of Neil and Mary Dixon Monroe and married Mary Biggs 1853 in Newton Co.Ms. He was captured at Marietta Gerogia and was imprisoned at Camp Morton, Indiana. He died there on Feb.10. 1865 from inflammation of the lungs and was buried at the Confederate Mound at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana with 1615 other Confederate prisoners.
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Contact Name:
Maxey Baucum
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Date Added: 4/21/2011
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Company I
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Francis Marion Wall - Private
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Francis Marion Wall was a Confederate soldier, served in Company I, 36th Mississippi Infantry, and killed near Chattanooga, TN. He was originally from Monrovia, just outside of Huntsville in north Alabama.
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Contact Name:
Tom McCulloch
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Date Added: 6/14/2008
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Company K
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James Acey Anderson - Private
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Brother of my Gr-Gr-Grandfather Jonathon Anderson. One of five brothers that served the Confederacy, and one of three brothers that died during their service.
Born 1817 in Georgia.
Enlisted on May 5, 1862 at Vicksburg, Mississippi. Company Muster Roll for August 1862 show him as 'Detailed to the Armory at Columbus, Mississippi on August 7, 1862'.
Died of fever while at home on leave in early 1864.
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Contact Name:
Bobby G. Herring
Contact Email:
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Date Added: 4/26/2006
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Company K
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William Spurgeon Compere - Sergeant
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He served as Sergeant in Company K, 36th Mississippi Infantry Regiment and is listed on the National Park Service records as paroled after his capture at the Battle of Vicksburg. It was common practice for a unit to reform following a prisoner exchange, and continue until the end of the Civil War.
Thanks to Col. Campbell for the following: 'The 36th Mississippi Infantry Regiment was mustered into Confederate service in March 1862. It was in camp at Meridian, Miss. during the battle of Shiloh (Apr 6-7, 1862). From the above report, it evidently was moved to Rienzi prior to April 21. It was part of the what became the Army of Tennessee at the battles in northeast Mississippi (Famington, Iuka, Jacinto, and Corinth) during the spring, summer, and fall of 1862. In early 1863 it was posted (along with its brigade) to the Vicksburg area and became part of the garrison through the end of the siege, July 4, 1863. It was reconstituted in January 1864 at the camp of paroled and exchanged prisoners in Enterprise, Alabama. It rejoined the Army of Tennessee near Resaca in mid May, 1864 and stayed with the Army through the Battle of Franklin and the “Siege” of Nashville before being transferred to help at the siege of Murfreesboro, returning to Nashville just in time for the Union counteroffensive. After the retreat they were transferred to Mobile and ended the war defending the Spanish Fort and Fort Blakeley where most of them were captured in the Union attacks in early April, 1865.'
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Company K
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Zachariah James Scott - Doctor
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Zachariah was my gggrandfather (B) 30 Mar 1829, Near Rodney, Jefferson, MS. (D) 15 Dec 1903, Copiah Co., MS. Education: Tulane Medical School. The 11th of 12 children. Dr. Zachariah was a medical doctor and Civil War surgeon serving in the ''Gallant Mississippi 36th'' whose service included the siege of Vicksburg. Following the Civil War he was a typical country doctor making his calls on his patients at their homes. He had a farm 12 miles west of Crystal Springs, Miss., which included a small office in the front room. It had a door that opened onto the porch and patients would come and sit on the porch waiting to be seen. The farm was operated by an overseer as he practiced medicine. He is buried along with his wife and several of their children in the New Zion Baptist Church Cemetery, just west of Crystal Springs, MS.
When Zahariah was only four years of age, some type of scourge, whether it was an infection or food poisoning is not known, killed everyone in the family except this young son, who was left without any surviving Virginia relatives. Because there was no kin in the area, neighbors took the young son into their homes and cared for him until they located a party of imigrants organizing themselves into a wagon train which was to move westward into new territory as the Spanish and the French were negotiating to dispose of their lands to the American government. This was to be a vast covered wagon convoy and dates had been set for departure. It was known to the neighbors that a much older half-brother by the name of William Scott, had moved from Virginia to South Carolina, and later had joined the flotilla of Richard Curtis, Sr. to explore and settle the area just north of Natchez, MS. The neighbors talked this convoy of imigrants into taking the four-year-old boy with them in hope they would cross the Big Black River going westward at Vernon, MS, across Scotts Ferry, and leave this boy with his older half-brother, where they would normally pass as they preceded to Vicksburg on the MS and points west. The leaders of the travel party agreed to the proposal, and word was sent to William Scott that his half-brother, whom he had never seen, would be arriving during a certain month, with the objective that he could be intercepted at the ferry as the travel party moved toward the west. William assigned a slave to stay at the ferry during the entire month the imigrants were scheduled to pass that way. The slave persevered and the last time the travel party saw the young boy, it was reported that he was in a flatboat being paddled upstream by the slave to William''s plantation. Zacharias therefore was reared in a very fortunate situation of privilege and wealth. Having no children of his own, William adopted Zacharias as his own son so he could inherit the plantation and wealth. Because the young boy had a very compassionate heart and a scientific mind, William thought he would make a fine doctor. At the appropriate time, therefore, he sent him by riverboats up the MS River and the Ohio to the University of Louisville Medical School, where he apparently met Martha Evelyn Scott of Trigg County, Kentucky, for the first time. She was a distant cousin of his. Zacharias had intended to return home to practice medicine but the Civil War intervened. He found himself serving as a surgeon in Lee''s army instead. He was there until the wars end.
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Lisa Fuselier
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Date Added: 5/8/2004
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