Is anyone researching any Gordon family in Giles Co., TN from the time of first settlement there until after the War Between the States? My John A. Gordon disappears from Robertson Co., TN following the 1860 census where, at age 23, he was living with his wife, M. J. Williams and one year old son W. L. Gordon. There is no further record of him in Robertson Co., but there was a John A. Gordon, age 33, on the 1870 Giles Co., TN census living with a wife named Mary and one year old son Jeneral. I have a service record of a John A. Gordon who enlisted in Co. E, 1st Reg't, Tennessee Cavalry at Nashville on 17 May 1861. He was captured at Oxford Miss on 5 Dec 1862 and exchanged 1 Apr 1863. He appeared on the muster rolls of E Co, 1st Reg't, 6th Cav. (Wheeler's) Tenn from 1 Sept to 31 Dec 1863 but was reported absent on 1 May 1863 and listed as deserted on 11 July 1863. This unit was made up largely of men from Giles County, but no John Gordon is listed on the roster of men serving in Wheeler's Cavalry unit as posted on the Giles County GenWeb Page. That could be a simple oversight or it could support my hope that the John A. Gordon in Robertson Co. in 1860 is the same man as the John A. Gordon in Giles Co. in 1870. Since this John A. Gordon enlisted at Nashville and not in Giles Co., it would be assumed that he was not from Giles Co. I would like to correspond with anyone researching Gordons in Giles Co., TN or someone familiar with the Confederate cavalry unit known as Wheeler's. Joyce