This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Redus, Mahan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Wh.2ADE/1701.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Let me checkwith my cousinon using her picture. I thought we had corresponded on the Confederate side. Washington J's pension file is huge as his second wife lived into the1930s or40s. As you know, both the Mahans and Reduses were families divided. Henry and Alexander Mahan fought for the Union. Their brother Wm Jasper fought for the confederacy. Their sisters Martha and Mary married David R and Washington J Redus. Henry married Melissa Mahan. I don't think Henry went to Union Co, IL. Instead he went to Garland,Arkansas. I made a mistake with the other Redus. It was William M. He went to Union Co, where he died but I haven't been able to prove that he served in the Civil War. I have bits of the pension files scanned so if you want them, let me know! I also believe that this person: Reddish, Thomas J. Pvt Co C, age 26, EN 1/20/63, Corinth MS MI 1/20/63 Corinth, MS, MI 1/20/63 Corinth MS born Fayette Co, AL, farmer, died 5/29/63 in regimental hospital at Glendal! e, MS First alabama Calvafry p 332 is Thomas Redus, brother of David R. I base this on the fact that Washington J used the alias of William J and in fact, he William J on his tombstone. Brother James also died in the Civil War, Ithin heserved in the confederate army but am not sure. Changing back to the Mahans, another sister Rebecca, married William Harrison Mayfield, who also served in the 1st Alabama Calvary. That family went to Franklin Co, AL. I noticed you were researching that area also. Good luck. LInda