I hope this email works. I am looking for a John Green Richards who marriage Amanda South and where they may have been before they left South Carolina. John G. Richards, Pvt Co's. K & A Age 43 years Enlisted 5 Dec 1862, Glendale, MS Mustered in 31 Dec 1862, Corinth, MS Born in Lawren, SC, should be Laurens Farmer Died 3 May 1863 or 27 Apr 1863 at hospital in Corinth, MS 1860 Marion County, AL Western Dist, p 578 & 579 John G. Richards, age 35, b. SC Amanda Richards, age 43, b. SC Margaret Richards, age 13, b. SC John Richards, age 12, b. SC Benjamin Richards, age 8, b. SC James Richards, age 7, b. SC William Richards, no age given, b. AL Name of Soldier: John G. Richards Name of Dependent (Minor) James R. Richards, et al Service: A, 1 Ala Cav Date of Filing: Oct 31 1883 Class: Minor Application #310117 Certificate #268708 State from which filed: Illinois This the the children of Amanda & John Richards Margaret Richards who married Thomas Logan John Daniel Richards who married Louise Susan Woodside Benjamin Franklin Richards who married Rhetta Pitchford James R. Richards who married Pauline Babb William Richards died during the Civil War very young child maybe only two years old John Green Richards was in the 1st Alabama Cav. (Unionist) during the Civil War and died in Mississippi 1862 The families of 300 was sent to live in Southern IL. because of the danger they were in. So the families were sent by boat up river to TN the sent by Train to the Southern half of IL to live until the time to come to return home safely. Some never returned home, because of the dislike and pain this War claused. Amanda South Richards and baby died in Richview, IL shortly after arriving to the area from the lack of food. Then the children were placed in home of others. Found it in the 1979 History of Washington Co., IL. John Green Richards moved his wife and five children from Florence, South Carolina to Alabama in the late 1850s. Being a Union sympathizer, in 1861 he went north to join the 1st Alabama Calvary leaving his family behind. The family was forced to leave by rebel soldiers, and they joined John in Mississippi. He was sick and died at Corinth. Family was sent to Tennessee with refugees and took a boat from Memphis to Cairo, IL. In 1862 they were loaded into stock cars and sent to Richview, Ill in Washington County. The mother and baby brother soon died and the other four children grew up in the Pleasant Grove and Beaucoup areas. James R. Richards, b. in Florence, South Carolina, in 1856, married Pauline Babb, born in 1857, to Eli S. Babb and Nancy Johnson Babb. James and Pauline lived their entire lives in Washington County, where they raised seven children. P. 409-410 Records from Washington County, Illinois Marriages from Book C Pg 65 #156 John D. Richards-Eliza S. Woodsides 26 Nov 1871 Records from Washington County, Illinois 1840 through 1849 Marriages from Book A Pg 14 James M. Woodside & Sarah Jane McCoy 7 Feb1844 26 Jun 1887 William W Jones (21) s/o George W. Jones & Mary Wilderman of Beaucoup & Nora Sogan dau/o Thomas J. Sogan & Margaret Richards of Beaucoup John Daniel Richards and Louise Susan Woodside children were: Amanda Jane Richards married Charles E. Scott John Calvin Richards James Richards William Benjamin Richards Walter Sanford Richards married April Gearen Edgar Ney Richards Harvey Leonard Richards Charles Elmer Richards Frank Daniel Richards