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From: Bill Allen <>
Subject: Re: [MSMARSHA-L] George Washington VAUGHAN
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 04:15:31 -0600
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Hi Delores,

You said the book mentioned Dr. John Wiltshire Vaughan. He was a son of George
Washington VAUGHAN. In Biographical Sketches of Mississippi, Dr. J. W. Vaughan said his
father was in the MS 9th Cavalry. I believe he meant infantry rather than cavalry.
Before Sam Benton was Colonel of the 34th Infantry, for 1 year he was a Captain in the
9th Infantry. I think George Washington VAUGHAN and Sam Bention enlisted together for 1
year in 1861. (I've found that record.) And he enlisted with Sam Benton again when the
34th Infantry was formed in Holly Springs in 1862. (I'm trying to document his
enlistment in the 34th Infantry.) George's farm was in Tippah County. But in the 1860
U. S. census, George had a store in Holly Springs.

George became the "organizer in chief" of the new county of Benton (named after his
former commanding officer). And he made sure his Tippah County farm became part of the
new Benton County. His farm was just outside of the county seat, Ashland, which was
named by his wife, Mary Marion (Pettipool) Vaughan.

The index I mentioned was for the Confederate military records held in the MS State
Archives. In the index I found 8 Confederate veterans named George, George W. and G. W.
Vaughan/Vaughn. None of them were in the 34th, 37th or 24th.

The informant named in the daughter's note, W. C. Porterfield, was related by marriage.
But he didn't serve in the same unit as Maj. VAUGHAN. And I've never found the Sam
Mayer named in her note.

Bill Allen <>


dlay wrote:

> 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.

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