Great grandfathers: Pallas Abraham J. Neely, Co. L, 5th Mississippi Cavalry, formerly B. F. Saunders Independent Company Scouts, captured Nov. 16, 1864, Battle of Nashville, to Louisville, Ky., to Camp Chase Ohio, released May, 1865, died June 6, 1876, by drowning in Reelfoot Lake, Lake County, Tennessee (Union records list name as Abraham J. Neeley) Andrew James Holshouser, Co. "C", 14th Mississippi Light Artillery, captured July 4, 1863, Vicksburg, Mississippi, paroled and exchanged, died 1914 in Winters, Runnels County, Texas Tom Neely Vernon, Tx