This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gist, Liddell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YEG.2ACIB/165.1 Message Board Post: There was a Brig. Gen. States R. Gist who fought with Brig. Gen. St. John Richardson Liddell (the father of Volney) in the American Civil War.