Jim, >From "Shiloh Remembered": p. 24 "The Rastus WILKERSON Story: Rastus (Rat) WILKERSON has spent nearly eight five years practically in the same spot -- New Delight Community, McNairy County, Tennessee. "There isn't much about the community I don't know," he said as he eased his lanky frame into a split wood rocker. "Used to be a lot of folks in the neighborhood that fought in the Civil War. Take old Polk CARROLL....he lived down the road apiece in an old log house. Old man Polk had been a soldier in the Confederate army. My granddaddy was Bill SMALLWOOD. He had fought for the Northern Army. For them, the war ended in 1865, when the shooting stopped. Others on both sides went to their graves with a grudge. Polk CARROLL carried a minnie ball in his hip. He hunted and fished almost daily with Bill SMALLWOOD. Polk would complain that his minnie ball leg was hurting. SMALLWOOD would snap back that "it's too bad we didn't shoot you in the head where it wouldn't hurt." The two spent their remaining years in deep devotion of each other despite their differences in the war. Benton KENDRICKwas another neighbor who lived close by. He never was able to forget that the South had lost the big war. He carried a grudge and he wasn't very friendly to Polk CARROLL or Bill SMALLWOOD." p. 27 --- (Continuation of the Bert HAYS Story): "Sometimes HAYS' guerillas numbered as many as 40. They raided in Hardin and Wayne Counties and eventually he turned on everyone within his grasp. Listing among his killings were John, Tom and George [sic -- no last names]. Their bodies were left unburied. Obviously HAYS was blamed for a lot of crimes he did not commit. A lot of false information was passed out by Union officials. HAYS did a lot of bad things during a lawless period of history but not everything that he was accused of. In Hardin County, the guerillas were accused of killing and raping Dicey and Martha CROOM. They hanged them in an effort to find the families [sic] valuables. HAYS asked young Monroe CROSSEY to guide them to Pinhook Road near Savannah. Later HAYS shot the youth through the head. A young granddaughter of Wm. FIELDER was also raped and hanged. At the Richard LARD home, HAYS appeared and the usual pistol whippings and rapings started. One of the girls spread the alarm and soon some Union soldiers home on furlough charged into the melee and a running gun battle followed for several miles along Holland's Creek. Ten men were killed and two men named THORNTON and FORD were hanged in 1866." Jim --- sorry about Dicey CROOM -- how terrible for her! Best, Julie Preston anpreston@msn.com -----Original Message----- From: Jim Carroll <jcarrol1@midsouth.rr.com> To: anpreston@msn.com <anpreston@msn.com> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 9:13 PM Subject: Shiloh >Please check out Polk Carroll p.24 and Dicey Croom p. 27. We are >working on the Carroll's in McNairy Co. and we think Dicey may >possibly be a Carroll that married Croom. Thanks for your help! > >