Hi all since someone else started a PERKINS in the WBTS I am seeking anyone with ancestral veterans who participated in the evacuation of New Orleans, staging at Corinth, battle of Shiloh, or the holding action on that Monday. does not have to be PERKINS. though none of my direct ancestors participated at Shiloh I had a g g uncle, Brig Gen Daniel RUGGLES, b Barre, Mass 1810, Grad USMA 1833, career USA officer, resigned spring 1861, appointed CSA, commanded 1st div (Louisiana Troops for the most part) under Bragg at Shiloh. I am looking for additional information concerning his personal life and command. The part that interests me most is that in his resignation from the USA he stated that he could no longer up hold his oath of allegiance to the government that had (in his opinion) usurped the rights of its citizens and had oversteped its bounds into the rights of the governments of the individual states. Yall might be interested in looking into the muster rolls of PERKINS who served in the Rev war on both sides (Loyalist or Militia/Continental) and there were probably some Brit Regulars of the family PERKINS I would be extremely interested in any of you who could connect to the PERKINS of the F & I War Colonial Militias or Reg Brit Army. I have read the muster rolls for Mass and Va and there are Perkins listed. My region of greatest interest is in the NY Champlain Valley engagements -- Crown Point, First Battle of Lake George and the construction of Ft Wm Henry, Carillion/Ft Ticonderoga, Canada. Brit commanders Sir Wm Johnson, Abercrombie, Amhurst. I await a response by at least one of you. Bill