This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/764.1.1 Message Board Post: Not true, there are others including John W. Thorn's brother E.C. Thorn and his uncle Elburn Perry Thorn who was in Company E Roddey's 4th Alabama Cavalry. If you have been reading the info in the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System I have found it to be incomplete and inaccurate. John W. Thorn in question is listed in this system as the one in the 57th regiment, this is because the 35th was combined with the 57th near the end of the war. However John W. Thorn had transferred in 1863 to Roddey's 4th Cavalry. I have his pension application dated 1921 which so states. The problem has been in finding him in a regiment or company at Shiloh since the 35th and the 4th were both formed after Shiloh. I now believe he to have been in an Alabama independent cavalry company at Shiloh, either the Franklin Scouts or the Tishomingo Rangers and then after Shiloh joined the 35th then transferred to Roddey's 4th where the Captain of Company L, John Newsom, was his old Captain in the Franklin Scouts and where his Uncle Elburn Perry Thorn was in Company E. They all went to Pond Spring (General Fightin Joe Wheeler's Plantation)Alabama to be paroled, the 57th (incl. the 35th) surrendered in North Carolina.

I have a picture of my ggrandfather who served in the Civil War in Co. E 49th AL Inf. and it is believed also in Co. G 49th AL Inf. He was discharged (pension papers) April 1865 Appomatox C. H. In the picture, he has on his lapel a bar pin with an Iron Cross (?) hanging from it. The person who gave me the picture says it was awarded to him in the war and that he served under Robert E. Lee. Can anyone tell me anything about this pin and how I find out if he did, indeed, serve with Robert E. Lee? Thank you. Will Sharp