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From: "dlay" <>
Subject: Re: [MSMARSHA-L] Marshall Co. CSA
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 22:52:55 -0600
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Bill -

In the new Marshall County book, _A Southern Tapestry_, the following
appears:

"...Units raised elsewhere also included local men, like Alfred Jefferson
Vaughan (later a Brigadier General) of Early Grove, who signed up in Moscow,
Tennessee, and the Fanta, Leas, Calvin Myers, and Hunter Cochran, who
enlisted with their Oxford classmates in the University Grays."

Your George Washington Vaughan is not mentioned specifically, but since
Marshall County borders Tennessee, and you have an example of a Vaughan who
did enlist there, it might be worth checking Tennessee's CSA records for
your George Washington Vaughan.

I checked another source for bio on Col. Sam Benton, who was his commander,
and found the following:

"...When the Thirty-Fourth Mississippi Regiment was organized at Holly
Springs April 19, 1862, Samuel Benton became Colonel. Soon after the Battle
of Shiloh, he took command of the Twenty-Fourth and Thirty-Seventh
Mississippi. On May 11, 1864, he took charge of his own Thirty-Fourth,
serving in the Battle of Reseca on Walthal's right, and at Kilb's farm on
June 22 and in the Atlanta Campaign. He was commissioned Brigadier General,
Army of the Confederate States of America, on July 26th of this year, and
fell, mortally wounded, two days later, in the fighting around Atlanta."

This bio goes on to say that Benton was editor of the Mississippi Times
newspaper, served in the Mississippi Legislature. Also, he was a nephew of
the famous Thomas Hart Benton, Senator from Missouri.

Perhaps the Mississippi State Archives has a regimental history of one or
all of the ones mentioned (24th, 37th, and 34th). Usually these histories
are written by a survivor of the regiment, and the history is published in a
limited number some years later. In the regimental histories I've found
(Union and Confederate), many if not all the troops are listed.

If no luck with these avenues, you might check for military information on
Mayer and Porterfield to see in what regiments they served.

The index of MS military records you mentioned--is it an index of
Confederate pensions or of military service? If it is for pensions, perhaps
George Washington didn't apply for one.

Lots of ways to go. Let me know what you find.

Delores



BTW, the book I quoted from also mentioned that the Vaughan family (among
others) was some of Potts Camp's first settlers. Also mentioned is Dr. John
Wiltshire Vaughan from Memphis who became the first doctor in the village.



----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Allen <>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 3:17 AM
Subject: [MSMARSHA-L] Marshall Co. CSA


> Would the library or newspaper in Holly Springs have any information on
> Confederate soldiers that enlisted there?
>
> My GG-grandfather was Maj. George Washington VAUGHAN. His daughter,
> Mildred (Vaughan) Bouton, left this note about her father: "He enlisted
> in Confederate cause at Holly Springs, Mississippi, Col. Sam Benton's
> Miss. Regiment, Sam Mayer Drill Master and W. C. Porterfield Comrade,
> discharged on account aggravated sore eyes. (information given me by W.
> C. Porterfield of Potts Camp, Miss)."
>
> My library has an index to the military records held by the Mississippi
> State Archives in Jackson. And it doesn't show a George, George W. or
> G. W. Vaughan/Vaughn in the MS 34th Infantry. I wondered if Marshall
> County may have some record of Major VAUGHAN enlisting there.
>
> Bill Allen <>
>
> ______________________________


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