Does anyone have a picture of Col. Wm. H. Moore of the 11th and 43rd MS Infantries? He was from Monroe County, but surely from the same Moore families that populated Itawamba. I am working on a regimental history of the 43rd MS Infantry and am desperately interested in this Confederate hero. William Moore organzied the 11th and took it to Virginia, where it achieved great fame. Becoming disabled, he resigned, but first received permission to raise another regiment, which became the 43rd MS Infantry. Col. Moore was killed while gallantly leading the 43rd (and Green's Brigade) on the charge which achieved the deepest Confederate penetration of Yankee-held Corinth, MS, on October 4, 1862. I am also deeply interested in any letters or diaries that this great Confederate might have left behind in family hands! Please contact me if you have info on Col. Wm. H. Moore! (Please visit my small website for the 43rd MS Infantry at www.43rdmississippi.homestead.com/index.html. The 43rd was raised in Itawamba, Monroe, Lowndes, Kemper, Webster, and Union/Pontotoc Counties, MS.) If you, too, are a descendant of a veteran of the 43rd, please contact me! Muster rolls listing all known veterans of this brave regiment can be found at the referenced 43rd MS site! -- Jim Huffman

I am a descendant of a member of the 43: John T. C. Evans - J.T.C. Evans was a member of the 43rd Mississippi Infantry in the Confederate War. He fought in he Battle of Vicksburg and was taken prisoner there. He appears on a list of paroled officers and men of Vicksburg and Port Hudson declared exchanged. This list is dated December 10 1863. Military Records Also his brother: Thomas P. Evans fought from the Confederacy during the Civil War. He enlisted in Company A, 43 Mississippi Volunteers on May 3, 1862 at Aberdeen, Mississippi. He was reported missing at Corinth, Mississippi October 13, 1862. He was captured at Vicksburg July 4, 1863. He was in prison at Columbus and died shortly after the Civil War with tuberculosis. He is buried New Salem Cemetery, Itawamba County, Mississippi. Another brother of JTC Evans George H. Evans fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He enlisted Company A, 43rd Mississippi Volunteers on May 3, 1862 at Aberdeen, Mississippi. He was in prision at Columbus. He died shortly after the Civil War with tuberculosis. _____ I am also a descendant of: Captain Ebenezer Carroll Bourland, M. D., Confederate States of America enlisted August 18, 1862 at Van Buren serving in Mississippi at Panola, Abbeville, and at Greenwood where he participated in an engagement with Federal troops. He was transferred to another command and was given the authority to raise a company of calvary which was known as Company K of the regiment to which he was attached. He was elected captain of this company wich was placed under the command of Major Hammand. Captain Bourland was stationed on a line of defense at Tuscumbia, near Corith, Mississippi for eight months. He participated in the Battle of Brice Cross Roads, Rowan, Twenty Mile Creek, Campbell Town and Baldwin. He was transferred April, 1864 to General Beall's Division and later served General Buford and General Chalmers. he was at Jackson, Battle of Harisburg and then Johnson's main army at Atlanta, Georgia. February of 1865 he returned to Ctton Gin Port, Mississippi because of ill health. Confederate States of America military records list Captain Bourland as 37 years old, six feet tall, blue eyes, fair complexion and dark hair. ____ Also some of the Atkins, but I don't have their records at hand at the moment. If memory serves me correctly, some of them were killed at Vicksburg. _ I have connections with some of the Moores, but I don't seem to have William H. Moore in my records. I had trouble viewing your site - some of the names seemed to be jumbled on top of each other - I will try it again later. Marie Evans Davis-McQueen reeevans@gulftel.com