This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------1781E5813FAD168C4B6DE3AA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- Greggory E. Davies 120 Ted Price Lane Winnfield, LA 71483 gedavies@iAmerica.net --------------1781E5813FAD168C4B6DE3AA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="Tillet Porter.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Tillet Porter.txt" Military Records: Tillet Porter, 1931, Winn Parish, LA. From: September 10, 1931 Winn Parish Enterprise Confederate Vet Makes First Trip Back To War Site Mr. Tillet Porter (James Tillet Porter, who will be 89 years old this November, made his first visit back to the scene of his days in the Civil War, when he visited Vicksburg, Mississippi, last weekend. Mr. Porter made the trip to Vicksburg with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Durham and family and Callie Porter. It required only three days to make the trip there and back and to see all the sites of the surrounding country. Back in 1863 when Mr. Porter made the trip it required a whole week to go. The trip was made then by horseback. The trip last weekend was by motor and was made almost entirely on pavement. Mr. Porter said there were many things that looked natural to him. He recognized the place where the old gun boat sunk. While he was there in 1863, Grant had a canal cut to turn the Mississippi River. Now a large traffic bridge and a railroad bridge span the river. Mr. Porter visited the National Cemetery and a large part of the surrounding country. When he was there 68 years ago --------------1781E5813FAD168C4B6DE3AA--