Hi there! I'll put a check in the mail tomorrow! Another question...have you ever (did I ask you this?) read Dixon Hollingsworth's book, "The History of Screven County, Georgia"? I was rereading some passages that Dee Thompson had so graciously sent me about Civil War units and those who didn't make it home again. From the sketch..."The Men Who Wore The Gray", T40,...there is a Simeon Brinson listed. "The bloodiest day of the war for the 25th was Sept. 19, 1863, at Chickamauga in northern Georgia. On the morning of that day the opposing armies were deployed along the road leading from Atlanta to Chattanooga with the Union army on the west and the Confederates to the east across a north-flowing creek called Chickamauga. General George H. Thomas of the Union army heard a report that there was a stray Confederate brigade at a place called Jay's Mill. He sent Brannen's division to capture this brigade. What Brannen's men actually found was not a lost unit, but the northern end of Braxton Bragg's Confederate army. Men of Croxton's brigade, part of Brannen's division, sent a facetious message back to General Thomas' headquarters asking which of the many Confederate brigades they found at Jay's Mill they were supposed to capture. A map of the deployment of forces at Chickamauga at this time shows that Wilson's rebel brigade was at Jay's Mill, face to face with Croxton's brigade of Yankees. So it was the boys from Screven County, along with their brigade mates, who bore the brunt of the very first collision as two huge armies clashed in battle at Chickamauga. The battle was a Confederate victory bought at a high price. The Screven County units lost at least thirteen men killed in action that day. The Ogeechee Rifles lost Lt. Col. Andrew J. WILLIAMS, their original captain, along with SIMEON J. BRINSON, George W. JENKINS, Marion McBRIDE, John M. ROGERS, James L. SCOTT, John H. THOMPSON, and Miles T. WATERS. For the Black Creek Volunteers, those who died at Chickamauga were Lieut. Warren OVERSTREET and Edward CONNELLY. Losses for Brown's Light Infantry were Absolom BEST, John R. MOORE, and Thomas J. MORGAN. Screven men of the 25th wounded at Chickamauga were JOSEPH B. JARRELL of the Black Creek Volunteers, Abram BURKE, John H. GILL, and Robert W. WILLIAMS of the Ogeechee Rifles, and Levi HOWARD, William LANE and John M. ROBERTS of Brown's Light Infantry..." Carole Drexel gdrexel1@airmail.net