Dear Researchers of Lewis County, Kentucky, The guns of war had been silent for over a year when Millicent "Millie" A. TRUITT married John C. WOODWORTH, 7 Nov 1866, in Lewis County, Kentucky. John WOODWORTH had fought for the Union in Company E of the Twenty-second Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. In the horrendously failed charge on the Confederate hilltop entrenchments at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, Mississippi, 29 Dec 1862, WOODWORTH was by the side of my third-great grandfather William COOPER when a Rebel mini-ball struck Private COOPER in the forehead. Sloughing through the muck of the bayou under heavy sniper fire from Hayne's Bluff, the Federal troops under Ulysses S. Grant's command met a costly defeat there on the Yazoo River, north of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Over a thousand were killed or wounded. The wounded had to lie out in the open fields all the next day, which included the nasty feature of cold rain. It was a rare failure for Grant, who refused to give up, and went on to capture Vicksburg on the Fourth of July, 1863, though without my ancestor William COOPER, who was somewhere in a hospital barracks. The Ohio River community of Quincy, Lewis County, Kentucky was home to the WOODWORTHs from at least 1852 to 1870 or beyond. Millie TRUITT and John WOODWORTH had the following five children in Quincy: Wheeler Worley, born 6 Nov 1867; George Gilbert, born 15 May 1870; Gertude, born 25 Nov 1872; Clare Christopher, born 9 Mar 1875; and Annette, born 27 Oct 1877. TWO-FACETED QUERY: Who were the parents of Millicent "Millie" TRUITT? And, has anyone traced the children of John WOODWORTH and Millie TRUITT up to the present? My hope is to write to a descendant of John WOODWORTH and convey wartime information, as well as John WOODWORTH's later days in KANSAS. One final note: John WOODWORTH married a second time, 26 Mar 1884, to Alice PITTS, in Adams County, Ohio, by Rev. E.P. ADAMS of the Presbyterian Church. I do not know when or where Millie TRUITT died, but I find it interesting that in 1883, John WOODWORTH was a resident of Williamsburg, Franklin County, Kansas, near his brother James WOODWORTH. Then, one year later, John WOODWORTH returned to the county he was born in, Adams County, Ohio, to marry his second wife. Thank you for your help with either the TRUITTs or the WOODWORTHs. Randal W. Cooper <[email protected]> Lorain, Ohio