Pontotoc County, Mississippi
Genealogy and History

BIOGRAPHIES COMPANY G, 2ND MISSISSIPPI INFANTRY, PONTOTOC COUNTY

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•    Manahan, William E. William Manahan gave his occupation as clerk and his age as 30 at the time of his enlistment in April 1861.  He participated in the Battle of First Manassas. He was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 31, 1862 and his leg was amputated below the knee.  He was furloughed and eventually retired to the Invalid Corps on December 1, 1864 and discharged.
  


•     Maroney, John  John Maroney was listed as 14 when he joined Company G in March 1862. He participated in the Battle of Seven Pines, but was ill during the  battles at Gaines Farm, Malvern Hill and Second Manassas. He was wounded at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862 and, after hospitalization in Richmond, was discharged in November 1862 for being underage.
  


•     Marshall, Calvin T.  Calvin Marshall was a 35-year old blacksmith in Pontotoc who was one of the early enlistees with the Minute Men in December 1860.  In the 1860 census, he was married with three children. He was present at the Battle of First Manassas and Seven Pines and was listed as on detached duty with the regimental band at the time of the Gaines Farm and Malvern Hill battles.  He was discharged as being overage on August 18, 1862.
  


•     Matthis, Benjamin F. was a 34-year old unmarried farmer (last name shown as Matthews) at the time of his enlistment, according to the Archives. Captain Miller's muster book notes that "in case of necessity, address his brother, E. W. Mathis, Adairsville, Georgia." He participated in the Battle of First Manassas, but was listed as AWOL after March 28, 1862 and as a deserter as of the July/August 1862 muster.
  


•     May, Francis M.   Francis May joined Company G in September 1861 and was listed as an unmarried 20 year old farmer from Pontotoc County. He was listed as sick during the Seven Days battles, and according to the Confederate Archives he was wounded at the Battle of Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862. He was furloughed and returned to duty on November 20, 1862.  He was listed as sick at the battles of Gettysburg and Falling Water, but was present for the engagement at Bristoe Station and the Battles of the Wilderness, Talley's Mill, Spotsylvania Courthouse and Bethesda Church. He was wounded in February 1865 and admitted to the hospital in Richmond on February 24, 1865. He was on furlough at the time the war ended.
  


•     McCurley, John   John McCurley was one of the early recruits to the Pontotoc Minute Men in December 1860, and his age at the time of the mustering into state service on March 2, 1861 was listed as 24. .  In the 1860 census, he was shown as a 26 year old unmarried carriage maker born in New York who was boarding with C. T. Trott, who owned a carriage-making business in Pontotoc. He was elected First Corporal at the organization of the company. He participated in the Battle of First Manassas and was promoted to 2nd Sergeant on July 26, 1861.  He was promoted to 3rd Lieutenant on April 21, 1862. He was listed as sick during the Seven Days Battles, but participated in the Battles of Second Manassas, South Mountain and Sharpsburg.  He was appointed Brevet 2nd Lieutenant on December 3, 1863.  He participated in the first day's action at Gettysburg, but was listed as sick on the third and as captured with the wounded at Cashtown, Maryland on July 5, 1865.  He was sent to Johnson's Island, Ohio, then paroled and transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland on March 14, 1865 for exchange.
  


•     McDole, Robert J.   Robert McDole was listed in the 1860 census as the 18 year old son of William and Melissa McDole. William McDole was listed in the census as owning real estate valued at $6,000 and personal property valued at $2,000.  Robert enlisted in April 1861 and was present at the Battle of First Manassas.  He was listed in the Confederate Archives as wounded at the Battle of Second Manassas on August 29, 1862, and as returning to duty on October 11, 1862.  He suffered a gunshot wound in the left thigh at the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, and was sent to a hospital in Richmond.  He was furloughed for 35 days in August and September 1863 and returned to duty. He participated in the Battles of the Wilderness, Talley's Mill, Spotsylvania Courthouse and Bethesda Church in May and June, 1864. He was named to the Roll of Honor for bravery at Bethesda Church. He died (the cause was not given in the Confederate Archives) at a hospital in Richmond on August 10, 1864.
  


•     McGregor, James E. James McGregor was enrolled as a private in Company G  on May 1, 1861. . His age was listed as 26, his occupation as "shoemaker," and he was listed as married. He was  present at the Battle of First Manassas, absent sick at Seven Pines and absent under arrest at Gaines Farm and Malvern Hill. While under arrest and awaiting sentence of a court martial, he "deserted to the enemy from camp" on the Blackwater on March 17, 1863. He was taken by Federal forces and sent to Fort McHenry, MD He was charged with being a spy in January 1864 and sent to the Penitentiary at Albany, New York  on July 29, 1864.
  


•     McMicken, James  James McMicken [or McMickin] was a 23-year old unmarried farmer from the Redland community in Pontotoc County when he enlisted in April 1862. He was severely wounded in the arm at the Battle of First Manassas.  He was hospitalized at Charlottesville, Virginia and discharged because of his wounds on October 31, 1861.
  


•     McNally, Patrick   A 45-year old laborer from Ireland when he enlisted in April 1861, Paddy McNally was shot in the foot at the Battle of Seven Pines and hospitalized in Lynchburg, Virginia. He returned to duty and participated at the
  Battle of Second Manassas. In December 1862, he was discharged under the Conscription Act because he was overage.  However, in January 1863, he became a substitute for Tom Rye.  He was wounded at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 and listed on the Roll of Honor for that date. After hospitalization in Lynchburg, Virginia, he returned to duty on November 10, 1863. He was wounded a third time at The Wilderness on May 5, 1864, but was able to return to duty on May 16, 1864. He participated in the Battles of Spotsylvania Courthouse, Bethesda Church, Weldon Railroad, Fort Archer and the three engagements at Hatcher's Run. He was one of the few to escape April 2, 1865. He was paroled at Appomattox Court House, Virginia on April 9, 1865 under name of P. McConnally.
  


•     Meadows, James W.   gave his age as 16 when he enlisted in March 1862. He was the son of Jonathan J. Meadow, a Pontotoc County farmer listed in the 1860 census as owning $1,200 in real property and $650 in personal property. J. W. Meadows died of disease at Richmond on August 5, 1862.
  


•     Mears, Goldsboro B. Goldsboro Mears was a 26-year old lawyer in Pontotoc who enlisted in the Pontotoc Minute Men in December 1860 as a private. In the 1860 census he was listed as 20 years old and a student boarding with William Bates, a Pontotoc attorney. Goldsboro Mears was the name of a brother of George W. Mears of Pontotoc, so Goldsboro Mears may have been George's son or nephew. He participated in the Battle of First Manassas and was appointed Corporal on August 1, 1861. He was detailed on recruiting duty in April 1862.  When Hugh R. Miller returned to Mississippi to raise a regiment, Mears raised a company (Company K), primarily from Itawamba County. Goldsboro was elected Captain and joined Miller's 42nd Mississippi Regiment. He was killed July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg.
  


•     Mears, Thomas L. was the son of George W. Mears of Pontotoc County, who is listed in the 1860 census as owing $1,800 of personal property. Thomas was shown as 18 when he enlisted in March 1862, according to the Archives.  He was sick during the Seven Days battles. He was wounded in the left thigh and captured at the Battle of Second Manassas on August 29, 1862. He was paroled on September 29, 1862, and  died of his wounds at Warrenton, Virginia in October 1862.  He is buried in the Manassas Cemetery in Warrenton, Virginia.
  


•     Miears, Andrew J.   An unmarried 23�year old farmer at the time of enlistment in April 1861, Andrew Miears was absent from illness from the Battles of First Manassas, Seven Pines, Gaines Farm and Malvern Hill. He was present at the Battles of Second Manassas, South Mountain and Sharpsburg. He was discharged by providing a substitute in March 1863.
  


•     Miller, Edwin    Edwin Miller, the son of Capt. Hugh R. Miller, was born in 1842 in Pontotoc. He was attending the University of Mississippi as a freshman at the time of his enlistment in the Minute Men as a private in April 1861. He participated in the Battle of First Manassas. He was sick during the Seven Pines battles and was probably too sick to fight at Gaines Farm or Malvern Hill.  In a letter to his mother dated July 21, 1862, his brother George stated:
  


• You have heard long ere this can reach you how we went to Staunton and turned right around and  came back again to Richmond. On our march back we stopped two or three days at the little place Fredericksburg where I had a slight spell of chills and fever which in my reduced and exhausted condition weakened me so much that I was unable to make the march in line and they had rigid orders not to allow any man to drop out or rest, who started, and were sending all the sick back to Charlottesville. I got permission then, as Eddy had to go on, to follow as best I could in rear, and endeavored to keep up as near as possible, but was at last compelled to lay over a couple of days on the road and got behind the army making a forced march meantime to attack McClellan. In this way I failed to catch up in time to participate in the glorious fight of Friday evening, but succeeded the next day in getting to them on a wagon. Finding Eddy very sick when I got there we got permission to go to a hospital in the rear somewhere; and after every variety of suffering succeeded in getting to Richmond.
  He was transferred to Company A of the 42nd Mississippi Regiment commanded by his father on July 12, 1862, where he became Commissary Sergeant. He participated in both the first and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg, and remained on the field and allowed himself to be captured in order to find his father. After his father's death, he was permitted to accompany his father's body back to Richmond. After a furlough to Mississippi was extended several times in 1864, he was eventually elected a Captain of Calvary Reserves under Brigadier General William L. Brandon. He was paroled at Columbus, Mississippi on May 18, 1865.
  


•     Miller, George George Miller was born July 26, 1840, the eldest son of Hugh R. and Susan Miller. He was in his second year as a student at the University of Mississippi when he enlisted in the Pontotoc Minute Men commanded by his father. He participated in the Battle of First Manassas and at Seven Pines. As noted in his letter above, he did not participate in the Battle at Gaines Farm or at Malvern Hill.  On July 12, 1862, he was transferred with his brother Edwin to Company A of the 42nd Mississippi Regiment commanded by his father.  His father appointed him Sergeant Major of the 42nd Mississippi. He was wounded at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.  In a letter to his mother, George stated he "was wounded slightly in the hand and severely through the thigh." George was furloughed and recuperated from his wounds at the home of his Mother's uncle, Eppa Hobson, in Cumberland County, Virginia. By April 1864 he had rejoined the 42nd. Mississippi.  He was captured at Hatcher's Run on April 2, 1865 and taken to Point Lookout, Maryland, where he was released in June 1865. On May 24,, 1866 he married Kate Wiley and moved to near Oxford. He and Kate had ten children before he died on February 1, 1897.
  


•     Miller, Houston A.   Houston Miller, a 19-year old unmarried tinner when he enlisted in April 1861, lived with his brother John Miller and his family in Pontotoc.  He was detailed as regimental musician from June 1861 until about April 1862.  He participated at the Seven Pines, Gaines Farms, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, South Mountain and Sharpsburg battles in 1862.  He was killed in battle at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863.
  


•      Miller, Hugh Reid   Hugh R. Miller was born in Abbeville District, S. C. on May 14, 1812, the fifth child of Ebenezer Miller and Margery Reid. Ebenezer Miller was a farmer in Abbeville District . Miller graduated from South Carolina College, and moved to Pontotoc County, Mississippi in 1835  when the North Mississippi area was acquired from the Chickasaw Indians. His father and brothers also emigrated to Pontotoc. In 1839 he married Susan Grey Walton, whose sisters were married to Robert Gordon and Stephen Daggett, Pontotoc County planters. In late 1841, Miller was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives as a Whig, serving in the 1842 and 1843 sessions.  In November 1845, Miller was elected District Judge of the seventh judicial district composed of Desoto, Marshall, Tippah, Tishomingo, Itawamba, Pontotoc, Lafayette and Panola Counties. He served as circuit judge of the seventh district for the next eight years, until 1853.   In 1851 Miller, while a sitting judge, ran as a "Southern Rights" candidate to a state convention called to elect delegates to a convention of Southern States, but was defeated. In 1853, he returned to the fulltime practice of law  In 1854 he was one of the organizers of the Pontotoc Male Academy. Miller apparently served as local counsel to the Mississippi Central Railroad and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad (which was under construction). In late 1860, after Miller organized the "Pontotoc Minute Men," who pledged "to march at a minutes warning to the defence of any Southern State that may secede from the Union at the event of the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency of the United States."  He ran and was elected on December 20, 1860 as a delegate to the State Convention from Pontotoc County, along with his brother Andrew Miller who was a delegate from Tunica County..  Miller was one of the "Committee of Fifteen" that drafted the Ordinance of Secession. Following the Convention, Miller rejoined the Pontotoc Minute Men, which were mustered into the Confederate Army as Company G of the Second Mississippi Regiment.  This regiment was ordered to Virginia, where they joined General Bernard Bee's Brigade. They played a key role in the First Battle of Manassas, and Miller was near General Bee when the latter was killed.  Following the victory at Manassas, however, there were no significant engagements for the Company for the balance of 1861.  They remained at winter quarters at Camp Fisher, near Dumfries, Virginia. In the spring of 1862, the enlistment of many of the Confederate troops who had volunteered in the spring of 1861 was up, and the regiments in the Army of Northern Virginia were "reorganized:" that is, elections were held for the officer positions.  Col. Falkner, Captain John Stone (later governor) and Captain Miller ran for the colonelcy of the 2nd Mississippi.  According to Joel Williamson's recent book, William Faulkner and Southern History, in the initial balloting Miller came in third, with  129 votes to Stones 250 and Falkner's 240.  Miller had already communicated  with Joseph Davis, Jefferson Davis' nephew, concerning the organization of a brigade comprised wholly of Mississippi soldiers, and after his election loss, he was authorized to raise a regiment of volunteers.  He returned to Mississippi and on May 14, the 42nd Mississippi Regiment was organized at Oxford, with the election of Hugh R. Miller as Colonel, Dr. Hillary Moseley of Panola as Lt. Colonel and W. A Feeney of DeSoto County as Major. The 42nd Mississippi Regiment arrived at Richmond on July 3, 1862 and until December was stationed near there in a camp of instruction guarding  prisoners and drilling.  In December, the regiment, by then a part of Joseph Davis' Brigade (including Miller's former regiment, the 2nd Mississippi and another north Mississippi regiment, the 11th Mississippi, together with the 55th North Carolina), deployed during the winter to Goldsboro, NC, then Greenville, NC, then Franklin, VA. During February and most of March, 1863, they were camped near Ivor Station, Virginia. Their only action during this time (December 1862 to March 1863) was an engagement with Union Cavalry at Beaver Dam Church on March 30, 1863.  The 42nd, along with the rest of Davis' Brigade, participated in the siege of Suffolk, Virginia, under General Longstreet, from mid-April until the end of early May, whereupon it returned to Ivor and remained there until mid-June, when it, along with the rest of Davis' Brigade, rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia and became part of Henry Heth's Division.  Shortly after joining Heth, the 42nd , with the rest of the Division and the Army of Northern Virginia, embarked on the Gettysburg Campaign. Heth's Division was the initial assault force of the Confederate Army on the Union forces at Gettysburg. On July 1, Heth directed the 42nd, 2nd and 55th NC regiments up McPherson's Ridge on the left side of the Cashtown Pike. These regiments routed the 147th New York, the 56th Pennsylvania and the 76th New York regiments of Cutler's Brigade as they advanced up McPherson's Ridge. However, other Union troops on the right later charged the advancing Confederate forces, who took shelter in an unfinished railroad cut. When the Union forces charged the cut,  its sides were too deep and steep for the troops to fire, and the Union troops captured a significant portion of the 2nd and 42nd Regiments.  Miller and most of the 42nd Miss. Regiment escaped out of the southern end of the cut.  However, the action there and earlier had decimated the regiment. On July 2, Heth's Division, which had suffered heavy casualties on the preceding day, took no part in the Gettysburg battle. However, on July 3, the remains of  Davis' Brigade, formed part of the left wing of the Confederate assault on the Union forces. Miller apparently was shot in the chest near a fence close enough to the Union forces as to be intermingled with them. His son Edwin Miller allowed himself to be captured by Union forces so that he could search for his father among the wounded. Hugh Miller was ultimately hospitalized in a Gettysburg house, where, after appearing to improve, he ultimately died of his wounds on July 19, sixteen days after he was shot.  His son Edwin, with some difficulty, was able to persuade the Union authorities to allow him to transport his father's body back to Richmond, where he was interred initially. After the Civil War, his sons had his (and his wife's) body buried in Aberdeen, Mississippi.
  


•     Miller, James D.   James Miller was the son of Henderson and Mary Miller and was unmarried and about 26 years old when he enlisted in April 1861. He fought at the Battle of First Manassas, Seven Pines Gaines Farm, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, South Mountain and Sharpsburg. He was admitted to hospital with a gunshot wound on September 26, 1862, about ten days after the Sharpsburg battle. He returned to duty on October 23, 1862.  He was wounded at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 and captured on July 5, 1863.  He was taken to DeCamp General Hospital on David's Island in New York Harbor and paroled on August 24, 1863 and exchanged.  He was wounded again at The Wilderness on May 5, 1864 and taken to a hospital in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was listed as AWOL and then later as a deserter for prolonged absence without leave during the November/December 1864 muster roll. He surrendered and was paroled at Columbus, Mississippi on May 17, 1865.
  


•     Miller, Thomas J. Thomas Miller may have been the younger brother of James Miller above. He enlisted in August 1861, and was then 20 and unmarried. He was sick for much of 1862. He fought at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 and was wounded on July 3, 1863.  He was furloughed for the rest of 1864 and for most of 1864 because of his wounds. He was discharged due to disability by order of the medical examining board in December 1864. He surrendered and was paroled at Columbus, Mississippi on May 17, 1865.
  


•     Moffett, Silas L .  Silas Moffett, who was listed as a 30-year old unmarried farmer at the time of his enlistment in April 1861,  was slightly wounded at the Battle of First Manassas.  He fought at Seven Pines, Gaines Farm, Malvern Hill and Second Manassas.  He was listed as on detail at South Mountain and was sick at Sharpsburg, and during the Gettysburg campaign. He fought at Bristoe Station and at the Wilderness, where he was wounded on May 5, 1864 by a shell fragment in the left thigh. He was furloughed for 60 days from May 20, 1864 and did not return from furlough. He was listed as AWOL from December 1, 1864. He surrendered and was paroled at Columbus, Mississippi on May 17, 1865.
  


•     Montgomery, William M.   According to Pontotoc County Mississippi History and Families, p. 324, William M. Montgomery was the son of James Montgomery and his wife Priscilla Elliot. William was born in South Carolina in 1831, married Julia C. Cruse in Pontotoc on December 21, 1854. Although not listed in the 1860 census, he is shown in the 1850 census as a 19-year old brickmason. At the time of his enlistment in 1861 he had two children and, according to the Archives (incorrectly), was 36 years old. William was wounded at First Manassas and sent to the hospital at Lynchburg, Virginia. Although the Archives listed him as AWOL from July 22, 1861, and as deserted as of August 1, 1861, a letter dated October 18, 1861 from Robert W. Edmondson of Pontotoc to Capt. Hugh R. Miller of Company G indicates Montgomery was not capable of further fighting because of his wound:
  


• I have not seen Wm. M. Montgomery to deliver your message but I know he is not fit for service & could not return & I do not much believe he ever will be again. His hip seems to be paralized and he is going on crutches. I have not seen him for two weeks but from his then condition have no thought he will be able for duty again although he says he is going to return to the Company. Ought he not to procure & send to you the certificate of a physician as to his condition?  It would be hard to proceed against him & he is probably ignorant of being in danger of it.
  


• William had two other children after the war.
  


•     Moore, Allen   Allen Moore was listed as a 39-year old farmer, married with seven children in the 1860 census. He was shown as owning $1,000 of real estate and $800 in personal property.  He fought in the Battle of First Manassas.  He was detailed as musician during the March/April muster.  He was discharged as being overage under the Conscription Act on August 2, 1862.
  


•     Mooser, Isaac A.   Isaac Mooser was a 25 year old unmarried bookkeeper from Bavaria, Germany listed as boarding  in Pontotoc with Salina Huntington in the 1860 census. He probably worked for one of the Pontotoc merchants (possibly Henry Bissinger or Ike Steppacher, both of  whom were also from Germany) before the Civil War and became friends with the Miller family. After providing a substitute and leaving Company G, he became attached to Maj. G. W. Jones in the Quartermaster's Corps. According to Miller family correspondence, he was located at Huntsville, Alabama in March 1863.
  


•     Newsum, William  William Newsum was listed as a 22 year old clerk in the 1860 Pontotoc County census.  His mother, Selina Newsum, an English piano teacher,  married Benjamin Earle, a wealthy planter and former land agent in Pontotoc. His step-brother, Charles Earle, was also in Company G. He was wounded in the finger at the Battle of First Manassas on July 21, 1861 and was discharged for disability due to his wounds on September 5, 1861.
  


•     Nowlin, Mark H.  Mark Nowlin was listed as a 16-year old unmarried farmer when he joined Company G in March 1862. He was sick for the Seven Pines, Gaines Farm, Malvern Hill and Second Manassas battles. He was present at the Battle of South Mountain and was killed at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862.
  


•     Nowlin, William C. William Nowlin was listed in the 1860 Pontotoc County census as a 20-year old apprentice to the carriage-maker, Rasmus J. Reed. Rasmus' son, James A. Reed, was also a member of Company G. William Nowlin enlisted as a private in April 1861 and fought at First Manassas.  In January 1862 he was promoted to 5th Sergeant, and he fought at Seven Pines, Gaines Farm and Malvern Hill. He was wounded at Second Manassas on August 29, 1862, but returned to duty on September 28, 1862.  He was wounded on the first day's battle at Gettysburg,  was sent to hospital and received a 30 day furlough on July 30, 1963.  He did not return at the expiration of this furlough and was listed as a deserter in the January/February 1864 muster.
  


•     Palmer, Richard A. Richard Palmer was a 29-year old unmarried teacher who boarded with Hugh R. Miller's brother, Erskine Miller.  He  was the fianc� of Martha Miller, the daughter of Hugh Miller's first cousin, Rev. John Henry Miller, Jr.  He was elected First Lieutenant of the Pontotoc Minute Men upon their organization. He was killed at the Battle of First Manassas.
  


•     Pegues, Miles T. Miles Pegues was the son of Charles C. Pegues, a Pontotoc County planter who was listed as owning $4,000 in real property and $8,000 in personal property (including six slaves) in the 1860 census. Miles was 22 at the time of his enlistment as a private in April 1861. He fought at the Battle of First Manassas and was slightly wounded. He fought at the Battle of Seven Pines and was detailed as a courier for General Law in August 1862.  He was again detailed as brigade courier from July 1863 and returned to the company on October 27, 1864. He deserted from hospital in Richmond on February 23, 1865. He was paroled at Columbus, Mississippi on May 17, 1865.
  


•     Perry, Frederick H.   Fred Perry was listed as a 28 year old farmer in the 1860 census, married with four children. He enlisted as a private in April 1861 and gave his age as 27. He was absent sick at the First Manassas and Seven Pines battles, but was listed as present at Gaines Farm and Malvern Hill. He was wounded at Second Manassas on August 30, 1862 and was sent to the hospital. He returned to duty on November 18, 1862.  He deserted from the Company's camp on the Blackwater River in Virginia on March 30, 1863.
  


•     Pickens, Joseph John, Jr. Joseph Pickens was the son of Joseph J. and Eleanor Pickens of Pontotoc County.  The father owned 21 slaves in 1860. He was a distant cousin of Hugh R. Miller through the latter's Pickens grandmother. Family records show Joseph J. Pickens birthdate as April 25, 1834. His brother,  Peter Keys Pickens, was also in Company G. Joseph Pickens was severely wounded in the leg at First Manassas. He was sent to hospital at Charlottesville, Virginia. He was discharged due to disability caused by wounds on December 4, 1861 by order of General Whiting.
  


•    Pickens, Peter Keys was another son of Joseph J. and Eleanor Pickens of Pontotoc. He was born March 6, 1830. He enlisted as a private in April 1861. He fought at First Manassas, and was  severely wounded in battle at Seven Pines on May 31, 1862. He was sent to hospital at Danville, Virginia and was discharged for disability due to wounds on September 29, 1862.  He returned to Pontotoc and married Mary J. Wiley.  They had four children.
   
  


•    Pierce, Thomas L. Tom Pierce was a 22-year old clerk who enlisted in April 1861 as a private. He fought at First Manassas and Seven Pines. He was sick during the battles of Gaines Farm and Malvern Hill, and on July 15, 1862, he was transferred (with Jug Winston) to the band of the Eleventh Mississippi Regiment.
  


•     Pitts, William   A 27-year old farmer when he enlisted in April 1861, William Pitts was not shown in Nealy's muster. He was listed in the Confederate Records as having been discharged for disability in January 1862.
  


•     Reed, James A.   James Reed was the son of Rasmus Reed, a carriage maker in Pontotoc who was listed as owning $200 in real property and $8,700 in personal property (including one slave) in 1860. James was 19 when he enlisted on May 1, 1861, according to the Archives. He was killed at the Battle of Seven Pines on May 31, 1862.
  


•     Roggers [Rodgers], Benjamin F.    B. F. Roggers was listed as a 35-year old married farmer at the time of his enlistment in March 1862.  He was listed as sick for all of the company's engagements in 1862.  He was severely wounded in the right leg  at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 and captured on July 5, 1863 at Gettysburg. He was later paroled, exchanged and admitted to hospital in Richmond on September 29, 1863. He was furloughed for 20-days as of October 15, 1863. He failed to return from furlough and was listed as AWOL at the March/April 1864 muster, and later as having deserted.
  


•     Rye, Thomas J. Tom Rye was a 21-year old clerk who enlisted in April 1861.  He was elected Second Corporal at the Company's organization. He fought at First Manassas. Seven Pines, Gaines Farm, Malvern Hill and Second Manassas. He was appointed 3rd Sergeant on May 10, 1862. In a letter to his mother on July 21, 1862, George Miller, a friend of Rye's remarked:
  


• Tom Rye will I suspect soon get a substitute in order to go home and join our cavalry..
  


• Rye was discharged when he furnished Patrick McNally as a substitute on December 1, 1862.
  


•     Shelton, Elijah H. Elijah Shelton was listed as a 20-year old unmarried farmer when he enlisted in March 1862. He fought at Seven Pines, but was sick for the remaining battles in 1862.  He was sick at the first day of Gettysburg, but fought on the third day's battle on July 3, 1863.  He also fought at Bristoe Station later that year. He was wounded in the thigh at The Wilderness on May 5, 1864. He received a furlough from the hospital for 30-days from June 18, 1864 and never returned to the company. He was  marked as deserted, and dropped from the rolls for prolonged AWOL by order of Col. Stone in December 1864.
  


•     Smith, Francis M.   Francis Smith was the son of Joshua and Jane Smith of Pontotoc. He was 20 years old when he enlisted in April 1861. His father was shown as owing $3,000 worth of real property and $1,278 of personal property in the 1860 census. Francis fought at First Manassas, Seven Pines, Second Manassas, South Mountain and Sharpsburg. He fought at the first day of Gettysburg, but according to Nealy's muster was sick on the third day. He fought at Falling Water. In 1864, he fought at The Wilderness, Talley's Mill, Spotsylvania Courthouse, Bethesda Church, Weldon Railroad, Fort Archer, and the October 27, 1864 engagement at Hatcher's Run. He was detailed to go with Col. Stone to Mississippi to collect deserters and absentees on January 9, 1864.
  


•     Smith, John M. John M. Smith was listed as a married 37 year old farmer when he enlisted in April 1861. He was discharged because of being overage on July 31, 1862.
  


•     Smith, John W . John W. Smith was listed as 35 years old, unmarried farmer who was enlisted in September 1861. He fought at Seven Pines, Gaines Farm and Malvern Hill, and was discharged because his was overage in August 1862.
  


•    Smith, R. W. Although not listed on any Miller muster, R. W. Smith is listed on the Nealy Muster and the Archives as enlisting in April 1861 at age 18 and as having died near Ashland, Virginia on May 1, 1862.
  


•     Smith, William R.   William Smith is listed as an 18-year old student at the time of his enlistment in April 1861. He was discharge on August 29, 1861 because of disability.
  


•     Spencer, William P. According to Pontotoc County Mississippi History and Families, p. 424,  William P. Spencer was the son of William  Spencer and Margaret D. Montgomery, and was born in 1836. His father is listed in the 1860 census as owning real property valued at $2,800 and personal property valued at $2,000. William Spencer was a lawyer at the time of his enlistment in April 1861 as a private. He was sick at the Battle of First Manassas.  He was promoted to Second Corporal in September or October 1861, then reduced to ranks on March 31, 1862.  He was elected Third Lieutenant at the reorganization elections on April 21, 1862.  He was present for the Battles of Seven Pines, and Malvern Hill, but was cashiered for cowardice by sentence of a General Court Martial on August 18, 1862 and dismissed for the service.
  


•     Stewart, Benton W. Benton Stewart was 27 years old and unmarried when he enlisted in the Minute Men in April 1861 with his brother Mark. They were the sons of Redmond and Mary Stewart of the Redlands community in Pontotoc County. Redmond Stewart was listed as owning real property valued at $1,600 and personal property valued at $3,400 in the 1860 census. Benton was sick at the Battle of First Manassas, but fought at Seven Pines, Second Manassas and South Mountain. He was wounded at Sharpsburg on September 17, 1862 and was discharged due to disability from his wounds on April 17, 1863.
  


•     Stewart, Mark T. Mark Stewart was 22 years old and unmarried when he enlisted in April 1861 with his brother Benton. Mark was slightly wounded at First Manassas and returned to duty. He died of disease at Bowling Green, Virginia on April 19, 1862.
   
  


•     Topp, William H. William Topp was a married 38-year-old farmer when he enlisted in April 1861.  Upon organization of the company, he was elected 2nd Sergeant. He was listed as 34 years old living with his wife Josephine in the household of his parents John S. and Elizabeth Topp.  John S. Topp was listed as owning $25,000 in real property and $25, 525 in personal property (including 15 slaves) in the 1860 census. William Topp fought at the Battle of First Manassas. He was appointed 1st Sergeant on July 26, 1861.   He was discharged on August 2, 1862 for being overage.
  


•     Vanzant, John L. John Vanzant was a 25 year old single tanner when he enlisted in April 1861 as a private. He fought at First Manassas, Seven Pines, and Gaines Farm, was sick at Malvern Hill, fought in Second Manassas and South Mountain, and was killed at Sharpsburg.
  


•     Vaughan, Ebenezer H. Ebenezer Vaughan was a 25 year old married farmer with one child at the time of the 1860 census. He enlisted as a private in September 1861.  He was discharged for disability on December 10, 1861.
  


•     Ward, John M.   John Ward, an unmarried farmer, listed his age as 30 at his enlistment April 30, 1861. He was killed at First Manassas. Charles D. Fontaine, in a speech to the people of Pontotoc published in The Examiner on August 9, 1861 gave the following description of the action that resulted in Ward's death:
  


• The main body of the company formed in front of the house going along the lane.  James Barksdale, William Topp, George Miller, William Winston, and poor Ward and myself with through the palings at the corner of the yard where stood a little log house.  The balls rattled thick against the palings.  I do not know how many others fired at the enemy.��I know Barksdale was posted behind a cedar tree and took rest on the palings.  Topp stood behind a cherry tree.��Ward stood by the side of the house and was firing when I left the yard.��I ordered him peremptorily to leave, or get behind the house.  I saw the splinters torn from the house by the enemy's bullets.  He paid no attention to mmy order.  I afterwards remembered  he was deaf.  I never saw him again.  I heard his body was found at that house.  I understood he refused to be removed by his comrades.  He said, "Go on, I shall be dead in ten minutes."
  


•     Wardlaw, J. H.   John H. Wardlaw was listed as a 54 year old farmer when he enlisted in September 1861.  He was discharged on January 3, 1862 for disability and for being overage.
  


•     Wheeler, Charles M. Charles Wheeler was a clerk for his brother, Ed Wheeler, a druggist in Pontotoc. He was listed as 26 years old when he enlisted in April 1861. He fought at First Manassas and was captured at Seven Pines on May 31, 1862. After being sent to Fort Delaware, he was exchanged on August 5, 1862. He never returned to the company and was listed as a deserter.
  


•     Whitlow, Phillip Phillip Whitlow was listed a 25 year old farmer when he enlisted in April 1861. He was shown as the 22 year old son of  Major Whitlow, a farmer owning real property valued at $1,280 and personal property valued at $1,000 in 1860. He fought at First Manassas, reenlisted in March 1862, went home on furlough and did not return.
  


•     Wiley, William E.   William Wiley was the 22 year old son of planter J. M. Wiley and his wife Mary. J. M. Wiley was listed as owning real property  valued at $8,000 and personal property valued at $18,000 (including three slaves). William Wiley was killed at First Manassas. Capt. Hugh R. Miller described the portion of that battle in which Wiley was killed thusly:
  


• We were left alone in the lane, our men had fired a few ineffectual shots at the column of the enemy in our front, just before we discovered the regiment flanking us on our right.  In a very few moments after this regiment first made its appearance, it advanced upon us at double�quick, firing.  I immediately ordered a retreat, without hearing any suggestion from any one��it was a necessity obvious to every one.  The greater portion of the company jumped over the fence in our rear, and forming the inclosure on that side of the lane, retiring diagonally from the front of the approaching regiment.  Some few passed directly from the enemy down the lane into the yard.  Of this last number was John M. Ward, who was last seen standing in a broken panel of the yard paling loading and firing.��Here he received his mortal wound.��My men continued to halt and fire as they retreated through the orchard down the hill.  William E. Wiley received his mortal wound about thirty paces from the fence we had just crossed, and where he must have halted and have been firing at the enemy, as the shot entered his face and came out at the back part of his head.  Both he and Ward were killed instantly. ...
   
  


•     Wilkins, John He is listed as having received arms on April 13, 1861, before the Company was sent to Virginia. Capt. Hugh Miller's letter to Robert Edmondson dated May 16, 1861 states he was "quietly dismissed" from the Company soon after it arrived at Camp Walker, near Lynchburg, for having grossly insulted a lady in the crowd which greeted the Company at Liberty, Virginia.  The dismissal came after the Company had entered Mississippi service, but before it entered Confederate Service.
  


•     Williamson, James F. James Williamson was listed as a 27-year old blacksmith at enlistment in April 1861. He was wounded at First Manassas, sent to the hospital at Lynchburg, Virginia and discharged due to disability from his wounds on October 6, 1861.
  


•     Winston, George D. George D. (Jug) Winston, single and 25 years old, had been the editor of The Pontotoc Examiner immediately before the outbreak of the Civil War.  His brother, William Winston, was also a member of Company G. Both brothers lived with their parents, Edmund and Elizabeth Winston at the time of the 1860 census.  Edmond Winston was listed as owning $8,000 in real property and $4,500 in personal property (including three slaves). His wife, Elizabeth, was probably the sister of Charles D. Fontaine, above. Jug Winston was detailed to the regimental band of the Second Mississippi from June 1, 1861. He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant in June 1862 and fought at Seven Pines. He was transferred to the band of the 11th Mississippi Regiment, along with Tom Pierce, on July 15, 1862. He brother was similarly transferred to the 11th Mississippi band November 25, 1862.  After the war, George D. Winston was, with J. M. Martin, the publisher of the Corinth Herald in Corinth, Mississippi.
  


•    Winston, William   William Winston was a 35-year-old medical student in Pontotoc when he and his brother enlisted in the Pontotoc Minute Men in March 1862. He was detailed to the regimental band on June 1, 1861. He was detailed to attend the sick at Ashland and as Hospital Steward, then in regimental hospital from March until October 1862. He was transferred to the band of the 11th Mississippi Regiment on November 25, 1862.  After the war, he returned to medical school and, after completing his studies, practiced with Dr. Austin Bryant of the Toccopola community in Pontotoc County. He married Eloise Furr, and died in 1878 in Pontotoc.  He was the father of E. T. Winston, who was a Pontotoc newspaper publisher and the author of The Story of Pontotoc.
  


•     Wray, John F. John F. Wray is listed in the 1860 census as 22 years old, unmarried and living with his brother, John K. Wray (FN 200), whose real property was valued at $2,000 and whose personal property (which included 14 slaves) was valued at $15,000.  He enlisted as a private.  The records indicate he was appointed lieutenant on June 14, 1862, but subsequent muster rolls show him as 4th Sergeant during July and August 1862, as 2nd Sergeant in November/December 1862 and as 1st Sergeant in March/April 1863.  He fought at First Manassas, Seven Pines, Gaines Farm, Malvern Hill, Second Manassas, South Mountain and Sharpsburg. He was captured at Cashtown, Maryland on July 5, 1863.  He is listed as paroled at Fort McHenry and transferred to Fort Delaware on July 10, 1863.  Fred Daggett's completed questionnaire on record at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History states that Wray was a prisoner at Fort Delaware from July 1863 until 1865.
  

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