John: Back in October you posted an inquiry (message #2618) on the PATE venue at GenForum regarding three PATE members of the 6th Mississippi Cavalry (Confederate). The three: William Pate John Pate James Pate The Consolidated Confederate Roster has service card images for: William Pate Company A, 6th Mississippi Cavalry Battn. John Pate Company A, 6th Mississippi Cavalry Battn. James Pate Company A, 6th Mississippi Cavalry Battn. I would suggest that you go to the Internet source where you found the roster and see if this unit, Company A, was principally recruited from Tishomingo Co MS. If so, I would suggest that PEHAPS these three MIGHT POSSIBLY be brothers, being the sons of Jackson and Mariah Pate of Tishomingo Co MS. A review of the 1850 and 1860 censuses of Tishomingo tends to support this SPECULATION. 1850 Tishomingo Co MS Page 1, District 4, site 4/4 JACKSON PATE 45 W/M TN 1805 MARIAH PATE 36 W/F TN 1814WILLIAM PATE 13 W/M AL 1837 MARY PATE 11 W/F MS 1839JOHN PATE 7 W/M MS 1843JAMES PATE 5 W/M MS 1845 [Mary Jane Pate perhaps md Billings] William Pate PERHAPS was James William Henderson Pate who married Rebecca Washburn 28 Sep 1858 in Tishomingo Two 1860 Tishomingo Co census enumerations- Page 452, Burnsville Twsp, site 3043/3043 MARIAH PATE 47 W/F VA 1813 JOHN B PATE 18 W/M AL 1842 JAMES M PATE 14 W/M MS 1846 [Perhaps wid/o Jackson Pate see 1850] Page 452, Burnsville Twsp, site 3045/3045 WILLIAM H PATE 23 W/M AL 1837 REBECCA PATE 21 W/F MS 1839 MARY J PATE 1 W/F MS 1859 [Perhaps James William Henderson Pate and Rebecca Washburn md 28 Sep 1858 Tishomingo Co] I can find no further trace of these men in the Tishomingo and Itawamba Co censuses. Just a GUESS, but I think they were all GTT. Go back to the Consolidated Confederate Roster for another look and you will find a service card for a C L Pate Company __, 6th Mississippi Cavalry Battn. I SUSPECT that this was a man named Christianberry Lee Pate who was born, probably in Itawamba Co MS in 1847. He was later in Tishomingo Co 1900 CHISSOM B PATE 52 W/M MS 09/1847 ED 116/20 TISHOMINGO - BEAT 5 1880 CHRISON T PATE 32 W/M MS ED 199/18 TISHOMINGO - BEAT 5 1860 CRESENBERY L PATE 12 W/M MS ITAWAMBA CO P 224 RYANS WELL site 1485/1485 I have some notes that indicate C L PATE or perhaps his widow applied for a Confederate Pension in 1913 from Tishomingo Co. C L Pate perhaps died in 1911 and is buried in Tishomingo Co C L Pate was from the Tuscaloosa AL Pate lines. This rather spotty and unproven military record does support the speculation that Tishomingo Co was a principal recruiting area for the 6th Mississippi Cavalry Bttn. Merry Christmas Joel