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/AW.2ADE/639 Message Board Post: Wanting to learn the migration routes to Cotton Plant, Woodruff Co AR during mid-1860's (1866), particularly those used by folks from So IL, So IN, No TN. I've looked at maps of the main westward migration routes and they all seem to run more east-west, rather than southwest. They also seem to lie farther to the north than Cotton Plant. Did people from S IL come down the Mississippi to a certain point, then come west overland? Or did they cross the Mississippi at St Louis and come south overland? A map would be great! Thanks!