Vaiden and the Civil War

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At the end of the Civil War (War Between the North and the South, War of Northern Aggression, War Between the States, or whatever people chose to call it back then), when the Confederates surrendered, things didn't just go back to normal, as if nothing had happened. If they wanted to be "forgiven for your transgressions against the United States," former Confederate soldiers had to apply for a pardon. Being a businessman, Dr. Cowles Mead Vaiden was one of them that applied, in order to get back into good graces with the government. CLICK HERE for his letter to President Andrew Johnson, asking for (and ultimately receiving) a Pardon.

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Waul’s Texas Legion: A Personal Episode in Mississippi

 

From: http://sixthmsinf.tripod.com/aftercof.htm

In mid January of 1863, Rust's Brigade was ordered to Coffeeville for a few days, then went back to Grenada then down to Vaiden. At Vaiden, the army was, once again, reorganized. Major General William Wing Loring was given command of the First Division which consisted of the brigades of Albert Rust (including the Sixth), Lloyd Tilghman, and T. N. Waul's Texas Legion.

Rust's Brigade left Vaiden the first of February and rode the cars to Jackson. Nine days later, they departed Jackson and marched to the Big Black River, between Jackson and Vicksburg. By the end of February, they were on their way to Port Hudson, Louisiana.

 

From: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mslownde/companyi.html

 

COMPILED SERVICE RECORD: OFFICERS AND MEN COMPANY I 43RD REGIMENT: MISSISSIPPI VOLUNTEERS, 1862

 

Company I -- 43rd MS Infantry Volunteers, CSA
formerly Co. A, 5th Battalion Mississippi Infantry Volunteers
Columbus, Lowndes County
10 September 1861

 

Private Lidwell A. Garner -- detached service 11-12/62 guarding baggage at Vaiden, MS; captured Vicksburg; detached service 7-8/64 as litter bearer; surrendered NC at war’s end (as a private in Co. H, 14th Consolidated MS Infantry)

 

 

From: http://www.mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/10th_MS_Inf.htm

10th Mississippi Infantry

(from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell’s "For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand’)

Orders for transfer to the interior arrived February 23, when the regiment was in the confusion of re-enlistment and furlough. The command moved to Montgomery on the 27th, to Chattanooga by way of Atlanta early in March, thence to Eastport, Ala., to meet an anticipated advance of gunboats, and reached Corinth March 10, where the regiment was reorganized. It was assigned, March 9, to the brigade of Gen. J. R. Chalmers, the "High Pressure Brigade," composed of the Seventh and Ninth and Tenth Regiments, Baskerville's cavalry and the Vaiden battery, the Fifth Regiment being added before the battle of Shiloh. The brigade was in Withers' Division of Bragg's Corps.

 

From: http://homepages.msn.com/LaGrangeLn/davidg33/BiosC.html#CSAvets1905

Winston "Wince" Mason was born in New Fatha, Pike Co., Alabama, February 27, 1839. He moved to the Brookhaven, Mississippi, area with his family about 1859.

Wince enlisted April 1, 1862 in the Confederate Army at Fair River, Mississippi, east of Brookhaven. He served in Company C, of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, along with his brothers John and Hucled Mason, and with his brother-in-law, Andrew J. Lovell. Wince is listed as being hospitalized at Clinton, Louisiana, in 1862; in Vaiden, Mississippi, in November 1862; and in Georgia in 1864. He worked as an overseer on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad line in November and December 1864, and was paroled at the end of the war at Baton Rouge, Louisiana

 

From: http://www.coax.net/people/lwf/rpt_edo5.htm

Report of Col. Embury D. Osband, Third U. S. Colored Cavalry, commanding Third Cavalry Brigade

HEADQUARTERS THIRD BRIGADE, CAVALRY DIVISON,
DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI
Memphis, Tenn, January 13, 1865

CAPTAIN: I have the honor to make the following report of the part taken by the Third Brigade in the recent raid from Memphis, Tenn, to Vicksburg, Miss:

. . . .

On the morning of January 1, 1865, I moved, by order of the general commanding, from Winona Station down to the line of the Mississippi Central Railroad, flanking the line of march of the main column. I sent strong dismounted details from the fourth Illinois Cavalry and Third U.S. Colored Cavalry from Winona Station, through Vaiden and West Station, to a point five miles below the latter place, a distance of twenty miles. They totally destroyed 2 ½ miles of track, 19 bridges, 12 culverts, together with station houses, water tanks, &c. Ten of these bridges were important structures, and must require thirty days to repair. On the morning of the 2d, learning that the Confederates were concentrating a strong force at Goodman Station, I left the line of railroad and moved on the Franklin pike in the direction of Ebenezer and Benton. When half a mile from Franklin my advance of the Third U. S. Colored Cavalry was charged by a strong force of the enemy. The charge was repulsed, and the rebels driven from their advanced position. The forces proved to be those of Brig. Gen. Wirt Adams, 1,500 strong, who, coming from Goodman, had pushed one regiment to a junction of the roads, covering them in some close timber skirting the road and about a church surrounded by shrubbery. A flank movement of two squadrons of the Third E. S. Colored Cavalry, commanded by Capt Henry Fretz, Company L, dislodged them from the church, while seven squadrons of the Third U. S. Colored Cavalry dismounted, under Maj. E. M. Main dislodged them from the close timber by falling upon their flank and rear, thus compelling them to fall back to a bridge over a small stream where General Adams had concentrated the main body of his men. Major Main immediately charged and carried the bridge, but in turn was driven over it in some confusion by the enemy, who being heavily re-enforced, outnumbered from three to one. We should here have lost number of our men except for the most determined gallantry of our officers particularly prominent among who was Lieut. Frank W. Calais, Company A. Third U. S. Colored Cavalry. In the meantime, the Eleventh Illinois Cavalry moved to our extreme right, where they arrived in time to check a flank movement of the enemy. After sharp fighting, the movement was checked, their left turned, and their forces driven to the main body at the bridge. The Fourth Illinois Cavalry, moved promptly to the support of the Third U.S. colored Cavalry, met and repulsed a flank movement of the enemy directed to our left, when quickly dismounting and jumped from tree to tree, soon drove the rebels to the cover of the houses across the creek. At this time, the Third U. S. Colored Cavalry again charged and carried the bridge from which they were not again driven during the fight. The desperate nature of the fighting, the superiority of numbers displayed by General Adams, and a summons from the general commanding to immediately join the column, now fifteen miles to our front and right, induced me to attempt to withdraw my men and we mutually separated without further fighting. One enlisted man from the Fourth Illinois Cavalry and one from the Third U. S. Colored Cavalry, too severely wounded to be moved, were left at Franklin.

More on the Battle of Franklin, MS

(Franklin, MS is located on Highway 17, between Lexington, MS and Pickens, MS)

 

From: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~providence/cw_chap8k.htm

 

Sumner County, Tennessee In the Civil War

By Edwin L. Ferguson, Chapter Eight

King, H. C. - Captured at Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862. Sent to Camp Butler, Illinois. Exchanged. Died at Vaiden, Mississippi, November 16, 1862.

 

 

From: http://www.civilwarhome.com/CMHvicksburg.htm

 

The Vicksburg Campaign

 

OPERATIONS IN MISSISSIPPI--JANUARY TO JULY, 1863 --FEDERAL FORCES AT YOUNG'S POINT--EXPEDITIONS NORTH OF VICKSBURG--ORGANIZATION OF CONFEDERATE FORCES--GRIERSON'S RAID--GRANT AT BRUINSBURG--BATTLES OF PORT GIBSON AND RAYMOND--PLANS OF JOHNSTON AND PEMBERTON --BATTLE OF BAKER'S CREEK--BIG BLACK BRIDGE --SIEGE OF VICKSBURG--PEMBERTON'S CAPITULATION.

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SMITH'S DIVISION.

Maj.-Gen. Martin L. Smith commanding.


First brigade, Brig.-Gen. W. E. Baldwin--Seventeenth and Thirty-first Louisiana; Fourth Mississippi, Col. P. S. Layton; Forty-sixth Mississippi, Col. C. W. Sears; First Mississippi light
artillery, battery E, Capt. N.J. Drew; Mississippi Partisan Rangers, Capt. J. S. Smyth.


Second brigade, Brig.-Gen. J. C. Vaughn--Sixtieth, Sixty-first, Sixty-second Tennessee; First Mississippi light artillery, battery I, Capt. Robert Bowman; Fourteenth Mississippi light artillery battalion,
Maj. M. S. Ward, batteries of C. B. Vance and J. H. Gates.


Third brigade, Brig.-Gen. Stephen D. Lee, Brig.-Gen. F. A. Shoup--Three Louisiana regiments: Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh, Twenty-eighth; First, Eighth and Twenty-third Louisiana heavy artillery; First Tennessee heavy artillery, two Tennessee batteries; Vaiden artillery,
Company L, First Mississippi light artillery; sappers and miners.

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After the affair at Big Black bridge Pemberton immediately withdrew his remaining forces to the Vicksburg lines, and before night work was begun preparing the fortifications on the !and side for a siege. Moore's brigade was brought back from Warrenton; the defenses at Snyder's Mill and the line of Chickasaw Bayou were abandoned, and all stores that could be quickly transported were sent to Vicksburg. The rest, including the heavy guns, were destroyed. On the morning of the 18th the troops were disposed as follows: Stevenson's division occupied the line south of the railroad, Barton on the river front and in the forts adjacent, Reynolds next to the Hall's Ferry road, Cumming on the left center, and Lee, with Waul's legion, on the left up to the railroad. The next two miles of intrenchments, running north, were held by Forney's division, Moore next the railroad and Hébert on the left. The north line to the river, a stretch of a mile and a quarter, was held by Martin L. Smith's division, Shoup on the right, Baldwin next, and Vaughn and Harris and the detachment from Loring next the river. The river defenses were under the command of Col. Edward Higgins. The upper batteries from Fort Hill to the upper bayou were manned by the First Tennessee artillery, Col. Andrew Jackson; the center batteries by the Eighth Louisiana battalion, Maj. F. N. Ogden, and the Vaiden light artillery, Capt. S. C. Bains; and the lower batteries by the First Louisiana artillery, Lieut.-Col. D. Beltzhoover. Bowen's division, about 2,400 strong, was held as a reserve, reducing the force. in the trenches to a little over 16,000 men, according to General Pemberton's report.

 

From: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/attala/jasonniles.htm

 

DIARY OF JASON NILES
June 22, 1861--December 31, 1864:

Electronic Edition.

Jason Niles, 1814-1894

. . . .

January, 1st, 1862, Wednesday

lightning and pitchy darkness as accompaniments. They lost their way and found themselves at John Holland's, for whom they hollowed a long time, when he came out with fear and trembling, bringing a pine torch. He was prevailed on to go with them a short distance to show them a nearer way back into the main road, when his torch was blown out, and the party left in utter darkness. Holland immediately broke for the house, and the travellers succeeded in gaining the high road which they travelled over in a hurry till they reached Vaiden, where they were just in time for the cars, which they took, and were set down at Duck Hill about 1 o'clock A. M. of Dec. 27th. Dan undertook to follow a trail to Comfort's, of Carroll County, two miles distant from the depot, but they got lost and wandered about till 4 o'clock, when they gave it up, kindled a fire, and concluded to stay till daylight.

. . . .

February 14, 1863, Saturday

 A. wrote to Aunt "Marty," by Stan--Sent for Mobile Weekly Register by Stan. Old man Presley & Dickerson eat dinner here. D. on his way to Vaiden with petition for C. W. P.

. . . .

February 16, 1863, Monday

Probate Court--rainy--old man Presley and Norman Weatherby eat dinner here today. Wrote out Acct. for D. Ayers. Dickerson just from Vaiden stayed here at night, it rained all night long.

. . . .

March 19, 1863, Thursday

Children under influence of vaccination. Bill Buzbee came home from Militia camp at Vaiden & there seems to be a general scatterlophistication of "milish"--Old man Allen, Frank Jennings & myself at Riley's, upstairs, looking at the last remnants of the clothing—

. . . .

October 29, 1863, Thursday

Rose at 5 o'clock--walked down to mill--negroes feeding hogs -- early breakfast and off for Vaiden. Crossed at Denman's ferry--in Zilpha swamp. Harris had a bout kicking his horse in the side--went through George's plantation--reach V. about 10 A. M. Robinson there before us. Ferguson & Maxwell & Beaty there--introduced to Maj. Simmons--Cothran came in--went to Hirsh's store to try Robinson's Habeas Curpus case. Maj. Simmons took the judge & me into the back room, & treated us to a drink of good whiskey, assuring us it was good for brightening a man's ideas--Robinson discharged on the ground that he was over 45 when president's call was made.

Came back with Dud Harvey & Ferguson as far as ferry--rocks piled upon rocks--Corn bread cold & hard for dinner, with ripe persimmons for dessert--rained a little--Rods D. B. C's "U. S." horse--got home 1/4 past 6--Walked our horses from Vaiden, 4 miles an hour.

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November 16, 1863, Monday

Probate Court--a clear, cool day, body of Nathan Sweatt was found in Yockanookany about a mile below bridge, floating on water, with a large rock tied to his breast. Went down with cavalry--helped to pull the body ashore. Mosby acting as coroner, held inquest. Went (P. M.) to Sam Mitchell's on way to Vaiden--rode Lucas's fiery "Boomerang"--Started at about 2 o'clock & got to M's about dark--a most glorious day. Mrs. Woolley here.

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November 17, 1863, Tuesday

"Sam" s'd last night yt. once upon a time, many years ago, Judge Huntington, representing some party who was opposed to Henry Tyler, commenced a speech by saying: "May it please your Honor, by the law of England"--Tyler here spoke up and said--"May it please your Honor, I was born in Ameriky: I was raised in Ameriky: and I want to be tried by the law of Ameriky, & not by the law of England." This raised a big laugh and bothered Huntington.

Rose early this morning, saw the first streak of daylight coming up the Eastennsky, from the hill-top on which Mitchell's residence stands. Went down to Mill and stables where Negroes were gearing up the mules. Breakfast of coffee, broiled chicken, fried sweet potatoes, biscuit, ham, fresh butter & c., & c. Left early for Vaiden, a glorious ride--reached V. about 10.

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October 20, 1864, Thursday

Clear, cool and pleasant--started for Carroll. Went by Rochester, and Tom Rosamond's--Tom harrowing in wheat--Lewis Nash came along-- rode with him a short distance--Went on by Dudley Harvey's & Randall's to Denman's Ferry--corn bread and a few slices of fried sweet potatoes--

Passed through Vaiden, up to Shongal's road, thence on through Middleton to Mrs. McLean's--reached there about dark. Mrs. Sheperd, Miss Betty, her brother and Freeland there, besides overseer (Spivey.)

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October 22, 1864, Saturday

Started for home at 8 o'clock A. M.--a killing frost this morning, the first this autumn. At Mrs. Kennedy's--young ladies only at home. Learned names of heirs--at Vaiden bought of Dr. Tait, at Young's drug store, De Tocqueville on Democracy in America, $5. Confed.--

Came as far as Ferguson's near ferry with Jack Arnold--came home by Wm. Moore's.

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From: http://www.chicago-scots.org/clubs/History/Names-S.htm

Stewart, William - 1828-1863 - Child of Agnes McGaughey/Elijah. Born in Coitsville, Ohio. Though he never lived at Somonauk, IL where his father's family was so long identified, his short career is full of interest. He graduated from Washington College, PA in 1849 and began the study of theology, but a severe illness made it evident that he could not endure the norther climate. He went south in 1852 and was private tutor in a family at Sidon, Mississippi, for a time. He studied medicine and practiced at Vaiden, Mississippi, where he married Mary Frances Pleasants. Children: Ernest William Stewart and Frances Stewart. He was a Union man and cast the only vote in his county against secession. When the war began he made an effort to escape with his family by way of Mexico, but did not succeed. He then entered the rebel army as captain, but resigned in a short time, ostensibly on account of ill health. Thinking to be safe from raids, he concluded to leave town and live on his plantation in the timber. He found a man whom he had often befriended (a Mr. Stokes) living in the house. Stokes agreed to leave but kept delaying. Finally, William ordered him out. The man went into the house and through the opening of the nearly closed door shot William in the back with buckshot. After lingering 19 days in great suffering he died. There being no communication between the North and South, his father's family did not hear of his death for two years. His murderer escaped justice

 

From: http://www.mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/43rd_MS_INF.htm

43rd MS Infantry, Co. K...

"Kemper Fencibles"

DeKalb, Kemper County

Private John W. Pitts -- missing after Corinth, MS; 12/28/62 in hospital Vaiden, MS; captured Vicksburg; 10/63 AWOL; 11-12/63 absent with leave; AWOL since 1/12/64 on 4/64 muster roll; AWOL since 8/1/64 on last official muster roll 8/64; further service unclear

 

From: http://www.mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/1st_mississippi_light_artillery.htm

1ST MISSISSIPPI LIGHT ARTILLERY

(AKA WITHERS’ LIGHT ARTILLERY)

(from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898";

company listing courtesy H. Grady Howell’s "For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand")

Company L -- Vaiden Artillery (raised in Carroll County, MS) [Designation changed to E, March 6, 1865.]

In February, 1862, the Vaiden Battery, described as a new company of artillery, with six guns, was sent from the command of General Lovell, headquarters New Orleans, to reinforce the army in Tennessee. Assigned to Chalmers' Brigade in organization of March 9, 1862. April 3, General Ruggles reported Bains' Battery not ready for field service. "Bains' Battery is not to go," is the Adjutant-General's endorsement. Lieutenant Sanderson, however, with a detachment, manned two guns of the Stanford Battery, in place of men who were sick, and was in the hottest of the fight at Shiloh, temporarily losing the guns, which were soon recaptured. Several men were killed and wounded. Report of May 6, Lieut. R. H. Smith Thompson, commanding heavy artillery at Corinth, a 24-pounder siege gun, rifled, which commands the Farmington road for nearly three-quarters of a mile, manned by Captain Bains' company of light artillery. After the evacuation, at Columbus several months, drilled as heavy artillery. Bains' Artillery company, in Beltzhoover's command at Vicksburg, January, 1863. Became Company L, First Artillery, as per report of March, 1863.

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Company I, Captain Bowman, during the siege of Vicksburg was stationed at or near the road leading out from Cherry Street, about one and one-half miles below Vicksburg (Hall's Ferry road). The company was not in the Baker's Creek campaign. At the beginning of the siege there were about 115 men on duty. Captain Bowman was disabled by sickness and the officers on duty were Lieutenants Bower, Tye, D. W. Lamkin and John Patton. Colonel Reynolds, commanding Fourth Brigade, Stevenson's Division, reported that his artillery consisted of five light pieces under Capt. F. O. Claiborne, one piece under Captain Corput on the left, one section under Lieutenant Bower on the right, one piece under Sergeant Hairston (Vaiden Artillery) on the right, one siege piece under Lieut. George P. Crane on the left center. The positions of four of Bowman's guns are marked on the line, Markers 163, 187, 190, 194.

. . . .

Vaiden Artillery, Captain Bains, added to the regiment as Company L, was on duty throughout the siege, part of the company in the center batteries on the river under Major Ogden and Col. Ed. Higgins, and one section under Lieut. Elbert M. Collins with General Lee on the land line. General Lee gave special mention in his report to Lieutenants Duncan (E) and Collins (L). Lieut. A. J. Sanderson commanded a 10-pounder rifled gun, Lieut. E. L. Wood 12-pounder, and Lieut. J. S. Young was killed in command of a 12-pounder howitzer, with Cumming's Brigade. Tablets 212, 214, 215.

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Regimental headquarters at Tensas Landing, August 10, Colonel Withers commanding; at Sibley's Mills, east shore Mobile Bay, August 23, Major Wofford commanding; at Mobile thereafter, November, 1864, First Mississippi Artillery, Capt. Marquis L. Cooke, in Maury's command; Bradford's and Ratliff’s Battery in Southwest Mississippi. Two guns of Bradford's Battery were captured at Brookhaven, November 18, 1864, by an expedition from Baton Rouge under Colonel Fonda, who "surprised the town by daylight, scattering a small infantry force and capturing a section of artillery with caissons. The gunners were, many of them, shot down at their pieces." (Gen. A. L. Lee's report). Private Winn was killed in this fight. January, 1865, Abbay's Battery, 80 present, four field guns, in Semple's Battalion Artillery, Mobile; March, 1865, Company L, at Battery Mclntosh, Mobile Bay; Company G, Captain Cowan, in Grayson's Battalion, right wing defenses of Mobile, Col. Melancthon Smith commanding. The Vaiden company manned a battery of heavy artillery.

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Battle Report of Brig. Gen. Wirt Adams, C.S. Army, commanding Central District of Mississippi, on Battle of Franklin, Mississippi, January 2, 1865.

 

From the O.R., Series I, Volume 45, Part 1, pages 873-875.

 

HEADQUARTERS CENTRAL DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI,

Canton, Miss., January 12, 1865.

 

CAPTAIN: In compliance with the order of the major-general commanding, requiring a report of the engagement with the enemy at Franklin, Holmes County, on the 2d instant, I have the honor to submit the following:

 

Colonel Griffith’s command, returning from Morton, reached Canton on the 30th ultimo, and was ordered to take position near Goodman, thirty-two miles north of this, for the purpose of intercepting, in obedience to the orders of the major-general commanding, the raid under Grierson, then reported to be moving west from Egypt Station, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, in case it turned in a southern or southwesterly direction. Moorman’s battalion, which had just reached Livingston from North Mississippi, was also ordered to Canton and directed to encamp in the vicinity of Colonel Griffith and await further orders. I had the bridge at Goodman carefully examined and repaired, with the view of the prompt crossing of the command at that point, and sent scouts, under Capt. Sam Henderson, up by railroad as far as Vaiden, to give me early information of the enemy’s movements. The telegraphic operators along the railroad were also requested to furnish me the earliest information regarding the enemy’s movements. On the 30th the operator at Vaiden reported the enemy at Winona and the main column as having gone to Grenada. At 3 o’clock on the afternoon of the 31st the operator at Vaiden left his office, without explanation, further than to say he had gone to look for the enemy, and the result was that no reliable information was received of the enemy’s advance in this direction until 7.30 p.m. on the 1st instant, when dispatches from Durant reported the arrival of the enemy at West Station, ten miles above, and the burning of the station house at 7 p.m. I at once dispatched couriers to Colonel Griffith, with orders to cross Big Black at Goodman, and to regulate his movement [so as] to occupy the bridge before daylight with his advance, and to have his whole command west of the river by sunrise on the morning of the 2d. Lieutenant-Colonel Moorman was ordered to move at such an hour during the night as to reach the bridge by 8 o’clock the same morning and report to Colonel Griffith.

 

Stewart, William - 1828-1863 - Child of Agnes McGaughey/Elijah. Born in Coitsville, Ohio. Though he never lived at Somonauk, IL where his father's family was so long identified, his short career is full of interest. He graduated from Washington College, PA in 1849 and began the study of theology, but a severe illness made it evident that he could not endure the norther climate. He went south in 1852 and was private tutor in a family at Sidon, Mississippi, for a time. He studied medicine and practiced at Vaiden, Mississippi, where he married Mary Frances Pleasants. Children: Ernest William Stewart and Frances Stewart. He was a Union man and cast the only vote in his county against secession. When the war began he made an effort to escape with his family by way of Mexico, but did not succeed. He then entered the rebel army as captain, but resigned in a short time, ostensibly on account of ill health. Thinking to be safe from raids, he concluded to leave town and live on his plantation in the timber. He found a man whom he had often befriended (a Mr. Stokes) living in the house. Stokes agreed to leave but kept delaying. Finally, William ordered him out. The man went into the house and through the opening of the nearly closed door shot William in the back with buckshot. After lingering 19 days in great suffering he died. There being no communication between the North and South, his father's family did not hear of his death for two years. His murderer escaped justice.

From: http://www.chicago-scots.org/clubs/History/Names-S.htm

 

From Wm. & Mary Quar. 8, p. 275:

Col. William Mead of Bedford County, Va., served in the French and Indian war; lived ten miles from Lynchburg, deputy surveyor to Richard STITH, served in the Revolutionary War. He married (1) Ann Hail by whom four sons: John Mead, Samuel Mead, Nicholas Mead and William Mead. He married (2) Martha daughter of Col. William Cowles of Charles City County, Va., (and widow of William STITH of Charles City) by whom Cowles Mead, third son, born in Bedford County, October 18, 1776, elected to Congress from Georgia in 1805, and the same year appointed by Jefferson secretary to the first governor of Mississippi Territory. (End of Note.)

 

Militia units formed after the six months enlistment of 1812

 

 

1st Regiment Mississippi Infantry United States Volunteers (Carson's), organized at Baton Rouge beginning in January, 1813 with the reenlisting members of the 1st Detachment of Mississippi Militia in service to the United StatesUnder the command of Colonel Cowles Mead and later Colonel Joseph Carson.

 

Captain Gerard C. Brandon's Company

Captain Samuel Dale's Company

Captain Benjamin Dent's Company

Captain Philip A. Engle's Company

Captain L. V. Foelckel's Company

Captain William Henry's Company

Captain William Jack's Company (at Fort Mims)

Captain Chas. G. Johnson's Company

Captain Randal Jones' Company

Captain Jos. P. Kennedy's Company

Captain William C. Mead's Company

Captain Hatton Middleton's Company  (at Fort Mims)

Captain Hans Morrison's Company

Captain Lewis Paimboiuf's Company

Captain Thos. Posey's Company

Captain John Neilson's Company

Captain James Foster's Company

Captain Abraham M. Scott's Company

Captain Benj. S. Smoot's Company

Captain Archelaus Well's Company "Well's Dragoons"