Name

Age

Rank

Where

Recruiter

May 1861

William A. Miller*

19

Sergeant

Monroe, LA

Harris

Before July 1862

J. F. Krindler

26

Private

J. W. Horton ^

28

Private

Columbus, KY

Bankhead?

Aug. 14, 1862

Edward W. Blease

24

Private

Rome, GA

Scott

Aug. 23, 1862

Lewis A. Davis

18

Guidon

Tupelo, MS

Scott

April 14, 1863

William E. McRae

18

Union County,  AR

Williamson

Sept. 1863

Nathaniel Holmes

20

Private

Mississippi

Missing Records

G.G. Pegram**

37

Private

Mississippi

John Reynolds#

* Miller claims to have been in Bankhead’s command at Columbus through the Battle of Shiloh, but there are no records to confirm his rank or his story. He told his story in Confederate Veteran Vol. VI, 371.

** Pegram is not found in any battery records except that he claimed to be from Scott’s Battery when he was captured near Knoxville, Tennessee, in May 1865. Actually, he belonged to Swett’s Mississippi Battery and later to Shannon’s Scouts where he fell in with former Scott’s Battery members. Source: Harvey Shannon, Confederate Veteran 1904, 112.

# Appears on a list of soldiers but he is not in the records.

^ Horton was from Marion, Kentucky. He was sick and was left behind after the Battle of Perryville in October 1862, and he died as a prisoner at a Federal hospital in Harrodsburg on November 5, 1862.

Sources: Compiled Service Records; National Archives, Record Group 109, M231, Rolls 4, 21, 34, 36; National Archives microfilm group 268 rolls 97–98; Historical Data Systems, comp., American Civil War Soldiers (ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid+1565) (accessed April 16, 2013).