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From: "Sue Stepp" <>
Subject: Re: [4TH-TENNESSEE-CAVALRY] Richard Thompson in 4th Calavary
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 20:33:41 -0500
References: <d5d.3471de9b.36e5b63c@aol.com>

I think you have me confused with someone else. I do not have a Thompson
relative and know nothing about a uniform.
(Wanda) Sue Stepp
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Subject: Re: [4TH-TENNESSEE-CAVALRY] Richard Thompson in 4th Calavary


>
> Hi Wanda
>
> I am the one who sent you that one website of the man who had the uniforms
> for all the wars and I am surprised he wasn't able to identify your
> Thompson's
> uniform, but as you said if the picture was old and worn out. With both
> sides having the same regiments or companies, it is hard to know. Let me
> do a
> little more researching also and see what I can find.
>
> I found this website with some Thompson's listed, but not a Richard. It
> looks like the 4th Calvary was Confederate if they were from Tennessee,
> the 4th
> Calvary from the Union side seems to be more recruiting from the east.
> This
> is the website I found on this information
>
> _http://www.tngenweb.org/marshall/war/4thCal2.html_
> (http://www.tngenweb.org/marshall/war/4thCal2.html)
>
> Here is another website about the 4th calvary and 8th and it shows a
> reunion
> picture in 1892 of those who served, what a wonderful picture.
>
> _http://www.tngenweb.org/marshall/war/4thCal.html_
> (http://www.tngenweb.org/marshall/war/4thCal.html)
>
>
> I also found this on Ancestry
>
> Name: R Thompson Side Served: Confederacy State Served: Tennessee
> Service Record: Enlisted as a Private.
> Enlisted in _Company C, 4th Cavalry Regiment Tennessee_
> (http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?&ti=0&db=hdsregiment&f0=1346&f11=Confederacy)
> .
> Sources:
> 425
>
>
>
>
> I will keep digging around to see if I can find more information. When I
> saw your Martha in the 1860 census it showed a Bristhand Thompson as head
> of
> household.
>
> After your question about the 1890 census showing your Thompson, I went
> back
> and checked my great-great uncle and it did show his name listed and not
> his
> widow. On the same page it did show another name and underneath it had
> his
> widow's name listed. I was given the information my great-great uncle
> died
> in 1883 in Hawkins County, Tennessee and he is buried in his wife's
> family
> area of the cemetery so that does have me confused. When looking at his
> injury,
> he was injured during the civil war by a wagon rolling over him. I tried
> looking for Richard Thompson, but with no luck so far, but will keep
> looking.
>
>
> Do you know anyone or do you have a photograph program that you can scan
> the
> picture and clean up some of the scratches, etc., if not, I have one and
> if
> you would like to send me the picture, I can put it in my photoshop and
> see if
> I can clean it up a bit for you. Let me know if I can be of any help as
> I
> know how it is when you are up against a brick wall.
>
> Kay
>
>
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