I have a problem for you. My g-grandpappy, John P. Wilkinson, from Sumter County, Ala., apparently was in Vicksburg MS when the war broke out. He joined up with Wirt Adams Cavalry and remained with it all thru the fighting. After surrender he went to Texas. I cannot find any connection to him in Vicksburg. Why would he have gone there at the age of 19=21? I don't know for sure his parents. A year or so later, a Joshua L. Wilkerson of Sumter County joined up in the same company (L) and after the war joined John P. in Walker County, Texas, and they married sisters. Not really troubled by variant spelling of the name, but why would Joshua (a brother, a cousin, a coincidence?) join a Mississippi regiment? love joan