My great-great-grandmother AURILLIA BOWERS told her grandchildren about those years when her husband Daniel Bowers was serving in the CSA , and she and the children lived near Lafayette Springs. She said that the Yankees came by scavenging so many times that when her chickens heard them coming, they ran and hid under their barn which was built low to the ground. She also said they tried to keep the cows and pigs hidden in the woods almost all the time. At 06:23 PM 6/25/01 -0400, you wrote: >There was a battle in Oxford. General James R. Chalmers, CSA was confronted >by union troops coming from Holly Springs. He slowly withdrew south from >Abbeville through Oxford toward Water Valley. Union troops fought him all the >way into Oxford. It was during this engagement that General Nathan Bedford >Forrest withdrew toward Panola and then on to his famous raid in Memphis. > >As for the yankees burning Oxford, regretfully they did as well as outlying >areas. It was about 8 miles east of town where they raided my G. G. G. >Grandfather's farm and stole a lot. > >John Echols > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com