Diane, Was your Chavis ancestor from NC? He could have enlisted in a Robeson County unit. I guess it would have depended on how much he looked like an Indian. My Indian ancestors were all listed as M for mulatto in the censuses, so they are easy to pick out. All of the ones I have found enlisted in a regular CSA unit, but I do know that others were conscripted for laborers. In "The Only Land I Know" by Dial and Eliades, they state :"some joined the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the war, though whether they were accepted as Indians or passed for white is unknown. Before long, however, the civil authorities began to conscript Lumbees for labor camps at Fort Fisher and other places on the coast....Many of the Indians in Robeson county refused to serve as forced labor." They continue to explain how this resistance and the conditions at the labor camps led many to flee from the work camps and eventually to help escaped Union soldiers avoid recapture (thus leading to the Lowrie War). At the same time, many others joined the CSA units. You might check the following web sites: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/2604/Glohamlet.htm (Gloria's Hamlet) http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~lumbee/ (Sounds of Faith) http://www.charweb.org/neighbors/na/lumbee.htm (Lumbee Tribe) Sarah ----- Original Message ----- From: <SIMMONSCRAFT@cs.com> To: <SCHORRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2000 4:57 PM Subject: Re: [SCHORRY-L] SC Confed Soldiers > 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/ >