Capt. Grace's Company Mississippi (State Troops)

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POW @ Falling Water 7/14/1863 Exchanged 11/01/1864 POW Point Lookout 4/2/1865 Release 6/9/1865

Martin was born in Richmond County North Carolina. His family moved to Mississippi when he was much younger. He enlisted 15 Sept. 1864 for six months. Enlisted by Col. Patton at Jackson. He was never paid. His name appears on a Roll of Prisoners of war dated May 15 1865 at Meridian, Miss. He was paroled the same day. He lists his home as Demopolis, Ala. He is buried at Confederate Soldiers cemetery at Meridian, Mississippi.

Enlisted on 5 Apr 1862. He served in CO A 39th MS INF. He died 7 Sept 1862, some people say Vicksburg, some say Oxford. He is buried in Shows cemetery, New Hebron community, Lawrence county, MS

William was my great great great grandfather. Company A 32nd Mississippi. Enlisted on March 4, 1862. Spent much of the war sick with dysentery, but was wounded in the battle of Chickamauga on September 20 of 1863. Listed as a deserter, he was given release from a POW camp in 1865.

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Adams Brigade Captured at Vicksburg, exchanged and returned to service May 1865

23rd Mississippi , Co B, 2nd reg. 1 Brigade POW 2/16/62 Camp Douglas, Ft Donaldson, Paroled Vicksburg, Captured near Nashville 12/15/64

POW Nashville 12/15/1864, sent to Louisville Military Prison, died measles Camp Douglas 12/20/64

Prior (Pryor)Anderson enlisted in April of 1861 at Raleigh, MS in Company "C" of the 8th Miss. Inft. He was captured at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee on November 30, 1864. Spent the rest of the war at the famous Northern prison in Chicago, Camp Douglas. He walked all the way back to Smith County, MS after being released from Camp Douglas in June of 1865. Prior's name was misspelled as Pryor. He founded the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Taylorsville, MS in 1870. Died in 1930 and is buried at Mt Zion Cemetery. He was my great-grandfather.

My Great-Great-Grandfather, (my Great-Grandmothers Father) Alfred Britt, Born 23 July 1832 Gwinnett County, Georgia.....Died 30 Aug 1864 Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana PVT in Co C 7th Miss. Infantry, members of the Unit were captured at Chattahoochee, Ga. on July 4, 1864. Members of the 7th Miss. Infantry, now "Prisoners of War", were sent to Camp Morton, Union States Prison Camp, Indiana where several died of Typhoid Fever on Aug 30, 1864. Members of the 7th Miss. Infantry were first buried at (Confederate Mound) Green Lawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. In 1933, Members of the 7th Miss. Infantry were transferred from the Green Lawn Cemetery to the Crown Hill Cemetery Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana. All of the 7th Miss. Infantry Unit members, their names are listed in the Crown Hill Cemetery, and all of the 7th Miss. Infantry Unit members, their names are listed and their names are on file at the U. S. National Archives in Washington, D. C.

Jonathan is my 3rd great grandfather. He enlisted as a Private for three years in the Mississippi Infantry on Feb. 22, 1862. On Jan. 10, 1863, he was admitted to the CSA Post Hospital at Dalton, GA for "Anasarca", a severe and generalized form of edema, with subcutaneous tissue swelling throughout the body. A St.Mary's Hospital record shows Jonathan is age 52 and received a follow-up Smallpox vaccine on January 23, 1863, with his prior vaccine having been 9 months earlier. Next, a Dalton, GA Post Hospital record shows he was sent to St. Mary's Hospital in Dalton, GA on Feb. 12, 1863. Records show Jonathan died on Feb. 26, 1863 of "Vulnus Sclopetarium", which is a gunshot wound. Since the record reporting death shows he was admitted on Jan. 10th, I am assuming that he was in the hospital from January 10th through February 26th due to the gunshot would and complications, including the anasarca. Records also show that Jonathan had $19.60 that was turned over to the Quartermaster and that his belongings left at the hospital consisted of money $1.05, knapsack, and 2 pairs of pants.

Reverend Lewis Ball, Company F and S.. Col, Capt., Major. Killed at Corinth, MS, wounded 6/23/64 Lovejoy Station, GA.. Descendent of Mary (Ball) Washington, mother of George Washington.

Wounded Manassas 8/29/62. Captured Colors at Lynchburg, decline promo. Killed Wilderness May 6, 1864. 400 of 492 were killed @ Railroad Cut. HEROIC HENRY McPHERSON. J. H. Strain, who was lieutenant of Company H, 2nd Mississippi Regiment, writes from Tupelo, Miss.: " I have just read with interest the articles of John Purifoy of Montgomery, Ala., on the battle of Gettysburg. In that installment in the April Veteran, although he quotes from Brig. Gen. Joe Davis's report, there is need of correction. From this article one-would get the impression that the 2nd and 42nd Mississippi, under command of General Davis, in that engagement had captured the Federal flag in question. Far from my purpose is it to detract in the least from the achievements of General Davis or the 42nd Mississippi, but, in truth, neither had any part in capturing that flag. The real facts are as follows: While the 2nd Mississippi had driven back the first line of Federals and had halted to reform their lines after the serious trouble of that railroad cut, there, some distance from their front, this stand of colors, apparently alone, stood planted in a pile of fence rails, and the Federals were trying to reform their lines along the line of this flag. Col. J. M. Stone sent out Lieutenant Roberts with four men to bring in that flag. When this squad approached that rail pile, they made a dash, each wishing to get the flag. In that race Lieutenant Roberts, a fine, athletic young man, and more lightly encumbered, neared the rail pile first, and, to the surprise of the squad, the Federal color guard rose up around the colors and killed the lieutenant. In the ensuing contest, the gun of one of Roberts's men failed to fire. Being a big, brave young man, he clubbed his gun and struck at his antagonist, and in doing so he stumbled and fell among the rails; when he recovered, two of the color guard were retreating double-quick with one of Roberts's men a prisoner, while the color bearer was retreating leisurely with the flag. Recapping his gun, he fired on the color bearer and broke his leg. He then rushed forward and wrenched the colors from this unyielding man, and, amid a hail of bullets from the Federal line, he brought in that flag. This man was Henry McPherson, whom we called 'Tobe.' He was my close friend; we ate and slept together, and he described to me fully every detail of this affair, emphasizing the awful apprehension of sudden death when the gun failed to fire. Colonel Stone offered McPherson the lieutenancy created by Roberts's death, which he declined, but accepted a furlough. No braver or better soldier ever shot a gun. He was killed on May 6, 1864, in the Wilderness, Peace to his ashes!"Private McPherson was killed at The Wilderness on 5/6/1864. He appears on a register of appointments, CSA to Ensign & 1st Lt. Date of appointment: 6/6/1864. To take rank: 5/4/1864 (However, Pvt. McPherson was obviously killed before his posthumous promotion to Ensign a month later). McPherson was also named to the Confederate Roll of Honor for Gettysburg, July 1st, Co. H.)

Cherry Creek Rifles, 19, Farmer, killed in action at Gettysburg, 7/1/1863, also sick hospital 1862, (served with my 3rd great grandfather (Samuel Addison Campbell). Grandson of Rev. War hero Capt. Lewis Ball, descendent of Mary (Ball) Washington , mother of George Washington.

Cherry Creek, MS, POW Falling Waters, MD 7/14/63 Old Capitol Prison, Wash DC to 6/65 Pnt Lookout Descendent of Mary (Ball) Washington, mother of George Washington.

John was an Alabamian, but was living in Mississippi in 1860 while his family remained in Lawrence County, Alabama. He worked as a carpenter. The CSA took heavy losses at Buzzard’s Roost Gap near Dalton, GA May 8-9, 1864. He died May 13th, presumably of his wounds. He was survived by his wife Margaret “Jane” Little Roberts, and four children, Jesse, John, William and Charlotte. John was 37 years old.