Vaiden and the War
Links and definitions are in BLUE
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.
. . . .
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.
. . .
.
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.
. . . .
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.
. . . .
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.
. . . .
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.)
. . . .
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.
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.
. . . .
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.
.
. . .
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.
. . . .
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 States.
Under 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"