This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McClain Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3kz.2ACIB/859.1.1 Message Board Post: I'm stuck on my gg grandfather, Charles McClain, b:1843 in Weakley Co, TN. d:Nov. 29, 1863. He was married to Julia Ann Kesterson, b: 1830 in Caldwell, KY. They were married August 19,1852, Pike County , IL. Charles McClain was gut shot at the "Battle of Chickamagua, GA" September 20 (Union-Inf.of IL), 1863 and died two months later of dysentery on Novemeber 29, 1863. He is buried in Bethel Cem., Pike County, IL. Charles was 5'6", light complected, hazel eyes and brown hair. He had three children: William Allen McClain b: June 1, 1853 in Newburg Twp, Pike, IL. Fanny E.J. McClain b: December 14, 1857 in Mt. Vernon, Lawrence County, MO. Lucy Ellen McClain b:" December 15, 1859 in Sebastian, AR. Can't find his parents or any siblings.