[jay1949]

LOL - - well, I don’t have anything specific for Tishomingo County, but there were Unionists thereabouts. Mississippi, like every Confederate state except South Carolina, had a regiment in the Union army. Also, there were far more “leave-aloners” than volunteers — “leave-aloners” being of Unionist or anti-slavery sentiments who wanted no part of the fight. This is why the Confederacy depended so heavily on conscription to fill its military ranks.

[Verginius Rufus]

I happened to hear a talk recently about the fighting in that area in 1862 (siege of Corinth in May, battles of Iuka and Corinth, fighting at Davis Bridge and Young's Bridge) or I wouldn't have known much beyond the fact that the Union forces moved into northern Mississippi after the battle of Shiloh.

I had one ancestor living in Missouri who served in a Union outfit--his brother was a Confederate. Another direct ancestor was a Confederate.

I just learned that a second cousin, four times removed, is one of the Union soldiers buried at Arlington National Cemetery. (Most of my relatives with his surname were Confederates, but he was from Ohio.)