My wife, an ex-resident of Oxford says that there wasn't a battle in Oxford. The Yankee troops occupied the town in late 1864 without a fight. They took over the courthouse, hospital and university. When they left, they burnt every building except those owned by non-southerners. 2 houses that were left were owned by a German blacksmith and a Northern judge. There is a civil war cemetery on the Ole Miss campus where Northern and Southern soldiers are buried. However, no one knows exactly who is buried where. In the late 1980s, a groundskeeper from the university was detailed to clean up the cemetery. He did too good a job. Along with the trash he pulled all the grave markers up. They were next to the Coliseum for a long time, but they were taken from there and she doesn't know where they went. Gene Phillips At 11:54 AM 06/25/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Just a thought--your ancestor could have been wounded in the war, or sick and >hospitalized somewhere in Lafayette when he died, which could explain why he >died far from home. Depending upon when in 1866 he died, it still would have >to have been a rather long illness, however, at least 8-9 months or more. >Maybe someone in Lafayette can tell you if there was a sanatarium or >hospitals in the area that could have provided long-term care. > >Harriet > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history >learning and how-to articles on the Internet. >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library >