Donna: The "extra duty" would have been things like constructing breastworks, driving a wagon, foraging, etc. B.F. probably also fought with Capt. Pound's Sharpshooters at 2nd Jackson and Chickamauga. For details, see my 43rd MS website at www.43rdmississippi.homestead.com/index.html. If you have any photos of B.F. (whose middle name I did not know!), letters, diaries, family/oral traditions, etc., relating to his service in the "Bloody 43rd," please let me know, as I am researching the regiment for an eventual regimental history. (See my post earlier to day to the Itawamba Rootsweb site regarding the "Itawamba Tigers," which was B.F.'s company.) I'd be delighted to hear from you! Please accept warmest, best wishes to you and yours from me and mine! -- Jim H.

Hello Again Jim, You may not remember me but I had written you a few years ago. Beside hearing you were writing a book about the 43rd. I had ask about your Huffman surname in regards to the 1717 Germanna Colony of what is Madison Co. VA. today. A while back while reading something on line in Itawamba Co. I saw where a Blankenbaker had a will there and that made me wonder once again about your Huffman line. Think Huffman and Hoffman are interchangeable. Have you found anything more on your surname? My great great grandfather Benjamin Franklin Morris was captured and wounded at Corinth, MS. Benjamin was even paroled all in that order. I have often though how blessed I am because had Benjamin (father's side) and my great great grandfather Samuel Conrad Blankenbaker (Union) mother's side, had they of been been better shots I may not of been born. The 123th Infantry reg't. from Clark Co. IL. fought the 43rd. Donna F. Bowen bowjay@foothill.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Huffman" <huffman@ametro.net> To: <MSITAWAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [MSITAWAM-L] 43rd Reg't. Mississippi Vols. > Donna: > > The "extra duty" would have been things like constructing breastworks, > driving a wagon, foraging, etc. > > B.F. probably also fought with Capt. Pound's Sharpshooters at 2nd Jackson > and Chickamauga. > > For details, see my 43rd MS website at > www.43rdmississippi.homestead.com/index.html. > > If you have any photos of B.F. (whose middle name I did not know!), letters, > diaries, family/oral traditions, etc., relating to his service in the > "Bloody 43rd," please let me know, as I am researching the regiment for an > eventual regimental history. (See my post earlier to day to the Itawamba > Rootsweb site regarding the "Itawamba Tigers," which was B.F.'s company.) > > I'd be delighted to hear from you! Please accept warmest, best wishes to > you and yours from me and mine! -- Jim H. > >