February 13, 2000 Dear Dianne: Yes, Indians or Native Americans participated on both sides during the War Between The States and fought with distinquished records, both in their own tribal based units and integrated with the regular or non-Indian units, and so did freed negroes and some times slaves that accompanied their masters. Not just as cooks, teamsters, or in labor battlions. Also, there were a number of women that disquished themselves as men and fought well for the Confederacy and the Union sides and several actually got soldiers pensions. My Compiled Service Records Index shows 36 Chavis SC confederate soldiers and 26 in what I consider to have Horry County soldiers or "Horry Units", so if you will give me ancestors name, I'll see if he is on the listing index. If I may be of further service, then please let me know----Julian SIMMONSCRAFT@cs.com wrote: > this may sound nutty but besides my white ancestors from s.c. i also had an > indian great etc. grandfather and i was wondering if the indian des. were in > the civil war. if someone could tell me i will try to find him in the muster > rolls, i don't remember seeing any chavis name on the muster rolls for > s.c.(horry), but i could be mistaken.someone told me they didn't have indians > volunteering for the war. thanks for any info > diane > > ==== SCHORRY Mailing List ==== > More SCHORRY-L listmember sites: > 16. Van & Katherine Jenerette > http://members.aol.com/vandoniii/familytree.html > 17. Elizabeth Whitten ewhitten@ro.com > http://ro.com/~ewhitten/ > 18. Debbie Parsons debpar@pahrump.net > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/1602/ > 19. Tom Harrelson- tharr29@idt.net > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/3087/ > 20. Ron Hall- phillhall@email.msn.com > http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/Quarter/5221 > 21. Marion Banks McGee - MarionBMc@aol.com > http://www.geocities.com/~marionbmc/ > 22. Danny Lee Blanton > http://millennium.fortunecity.com/abbeydale/731/ > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/