There are hundreds of 'unknown' graves at Vicksburg NMP Cemetery. The National Parks website has a listing of known dead at Vicksburg, but many are not linked to their gravesite...he might be one of those...> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:07:45 -0700> From: manaiaalofa@yahoo.com> To: USCW-VICKSBURG@rootsweb.com; CIVIL-WAR@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] William DICKENS - Company E 52Regiment USC Infantry orCompany A Regiment 4 West> > Hello Lorna:> > Because I have been reading a lot on the Civil War> occurring in Vicksburg, the dates are emblazoned in my> mind now - May 18-July 4, 1863.> > "I am looking for the grave of William Dickens my> great grandfather. He died in Vicksburg on September> 5,1863."> > Did your Great-Grandfather pass away from wounds that> occurred on the battlefield of Vicksburg?> > So, I ask the learned [CIVIL-WAR] aficionados where is> a Black/Colour soldier laid to rest in 1863?> > My lister's ancestor - William DICKENS - passed away> two months and a day after the siege of Vicksburg in> 1863.> > "Thank you kindly."> > --Manaia> > ++++> > From: LJKZ@aol.com> Subject: [USCW-VICKSBURG] Looking info on William> DICKENS> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:22:58 EDT> > I am looking for the grave of William Dickens my great> grandfather. He died> in Vicksburg on September 5,1863. I got that info from> a pension application> form. I have not found the actual pension yet. I have> sent for some military> records from the National Archives.> > I also wrote to the National Cemetery in Vicksburg but> they said they could> not find a William DICKENS that was in Company E 52> Regiment USC Infantry or> Company A Regiment 4 West Virginia Infantry. They have> 33 DICKENS there.> > This information also came from the pension> application,late rank Sgt.> I am new to this list so please excuse any mistakes.> > Thank you in advance,> Lorna> > > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CIVIL-WAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Give to a good cause with every e-mail. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?souce=EML_WL_ GoodCause
"Thank you kindly, Gerald." Please do not think I've just been sitting waiting for the answers to come to me - I wish! - grin. Or hoping SKS from this list or the many Rootsweb Civil War lists I've joined this week (probably every last one) would smilingly lead me to William Dickens place of resting - nosiree. Just today I've posted to my list the Mississippi military records: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Mississippi_Military_Records Mississippi Military Records Civil War (1861-1865) Mississippi provided soldiers to both the Union and Confederate armies. Indexes to the service records for both armies are available at the Family History Library. Union service records are at the National Archives and on film at the Family History Library (FHL film 1292659-62). Union pension records are only at the National Archives. The Family History Library has the index to the pension records. A special census was taken in 1890 of Union veterans of the Civil War. The returns are on film at the Family History Library (FHL film 338185). An index to the Mississippi returns has been published and is available at the Family History Library. Confederate pension and service records are at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Mississippi pension records for Confederate veterans are arranged alphabetically on film at the Family History Library. Regimental sketches and rosters of Confederate troops are in John C. Rietti, Military Annals of Mississippi. 1895. Reprint, Spartanburg, South Carolina: Reprint Company Publishers, 1976. (FHL book 976.2 M2r; film 1036087 item 8.) .... Yes, I've gleaned the many suggestions. I've also posted to my list: Free Public Access on Ancestry.com "To commemorate the NARA-Ancestry.com agreement on the eve of Memorial Day, Ancestry.com is making its entire U.S. Military Collection -- the largest online collection of American military records -- available for free to the public. From May 20 through May 31, ... to view more than 100 million names and 700 titles and databases of military records, the majority of which come from NARA, from all 50 U.S. states." Here is a list of the records available: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/grouplist.aspx?group=war_all These are probably the most helpful records: Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942 ["Old Man's Draft"] .... And because of Ancestry.com's generous offer was able to glean (in which Phyllis had already submitted to me): U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 about William Dickens Name: William Dickens Side: Union Regiment State/Origin: U.S. Colored Troops Regiment Name: 52 U.S. Col'd Infantry Regiment Name Expanded: 52nd Regiment, United States Colored Infantry COMPANY: E Rank In: Sergeant Rank In Expanded: Sergeant Rank Out: Private Rank Out Expanded: Private Film Number: M589 roll 23 Memorial: Part of the African American Civil War Memorial Plaque Number: C-64 Displayed As: William Dickens Is it just a plague that is commemorating a memory? Or the remains of the man William Dickens? Am I heading into another brick wall? More research. .... And to add more bricks to my collection, I've stumbled upon two Vicksburg regiments that may connect to William Dickens. More research. And the biggest brick on this journey is: Where is this DICKENS descent? - Grin. Hopefully I will have found resolution by the time she appears. "Thanks! again." --Manaia ++++ --- Gerald Gieger <giegerg@hotmail.com> wrote: > > There are hundreds of 'unknown' graves at Vicksburg > NMP Cemetery. The National Parks website has a > listing of known dead at Vicksburg, but many are not > linked to their gravesite...he might be one of > those...
To the present date the remains of 15,508 Union soldiers have been interred there of which 10,027are white and 5,553 are color, of the white two fifths are anoung the known, while of the color there are but two one hundrends known; and of the whole number interrend the records show three-fourths unknown. At Vicksburg City Cemetery ( Ceder Hill Cemetery) there are approximately 5,000 Confederates are buried there, which 1,600 are identified Source: Vicksburg National Cemetery Tour Stop ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Gieger" <giegerg@hotmail.com> To: <civil-war@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:23 PM Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] William DICKENS - Company E 52Regiment USCInfantry orCompany A Regiment 4 West > > There are hundreds of 'unknown' graves at Vicksburg NMP Cemetery. The > National Parks website has a listing of known dead at Vicksburg, but many > are not linked to their gravesite...he might be one of those...> Date: > Tue, 20 May 2008 10:07:45 -0700> From: manaiaalofa@yahoo.com> To: > USCW-VICKSBURG@rootsweb.com; CIVIL-WAR@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: > [CIVIL-WAR] William DICKENS - Company E 52Regiment USC Infantry orCompany > A Regiment 4 West> > Hello Lorna:> > Because I have been reading a lot on > the Civil War> occurring in Vicksburg, the dates are emblazoned in my> > mind now - May 18-July 4, 1863.> > "I am looking for the grave of William > Dickens my> great grandfather. He died in Vicksburg on September> > 5,1863."> > Did your Great-Grandfather pass away from wounds that> > occurred on the battlefield of Vicksburg?> > So, I ask the learned > [CIVIL-WAR] aficionados where is> a Black/Colour soldier laid to rest in > 1863?> > My lister's ancestor - William DICKENS - passed away> two months > and a day after the siege of Vicksburg in> 1863.> > "Thank you kindly."> > > --Manaia> > ++++> > From: LJKZ@aol.com> Subject: [USCW-VICKSBURG] > Looking info on William> DICKENS> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:22:58 EDT> > I > am looking for the grave of William Dickens my great> grandfather. He > died> in Vicksburg on September 5,1863. I got that info from> a pension > application> form. I have not found the actual pension yet. I have> sent > for some military> records from the National Archives.> > I also wrote to > the National Cemetery in Vicksburg but> they said they could> not find a > William DICKENS that was in Company E 52> Regiment USC Infantry or> > Company A Regiment 4 West Virginia Infantry. They have> 33 DICKENS there.> > > This information also came from the pension> application,late rank Sgt.> > I am new to this list so please excuse any mistakes.> > Thank you in > advance,> Lorna> > > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe > from the list, please send an email to CIVIL-WAR-request@rootsweb.com with > the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message > _________________________________________________________________ > Give to a good cause with every e-mail. Join the i’m Initiative from > Microsoft. > http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?souce=EML_WL_ GoodCause > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CIVIL-WAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >