Part 3: True Faith & Allegiance: Piney Woods enlistees in the Union 1st N.O. Infantry By Ed Payne The Mississippians who joined the Union 1st New Orleans Infantry Regiment in […]
Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties, part 3
Ed Payne, “Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties,” Part 2
Part 2: No better than runaway slaves: Piney Woods enlistees in the Union 1st N.O. Infantry By Ed Payne Between November of 1863 and November of 1864, over two hundred Mississippi […]
Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties: Piney Woods enlistees in the Union 1st and 2nd New Orleans Infantry
Crossing the Rubicon of Loyalties: Piney Woods enlistees in the Union 1st and 2nd New Orleans Infantry By Ed Payne Part I Two years ago I gave a presentation in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a […]
Searching your ancestors’ Civil War records? You never know what you might find!
Note from moderator: Some time ago, before my move to Missouri temporarily engulfed my life, I had an interesting set of exchanges with Shelby Harriel, who had posted a comment beneath Ed […]
Part 2: Ed Payne on Jones County Civil War Widows
Martha Rushing Walters Sumrall by Ed Payne The life of Civil War widow Martha Rushing Walters Sumrall was short. Born in 1844, she would be laid to rest in a now forgotten […]
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