David, I'm not the author of "Shiloh Remembered" --- just providing lookups from the booklet. People will have to check the facts themselves. Best, Julie Preston anpreston@msn.com -----Original Message----- From: David Cagle <dcagle@centuryinter.net> To: TNMCNAIR-L@rootsweb.com <TNMCNAIR-L@rootsweb.com>; anpreston@msn.com <anpreston@msn.com> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 9:48 PM Subject: "G" Company, First Confederate Cavalry Regiment >Julie and Others, >June 1863, as stated below, was not the end of the "First Confederate Cavalry." >Lt. Col. C. S. Robertson, of Pocahontus, Bolivar and Savannah, and other >officers were captured along with the 292 men as you stated. However, Capt. C. >H. Conner assumed Command of the outfit which continued as a unit until the >surrender near Gainesville Alabama at the end of the war. > >I am trying to write a history of Company G of the First. This company was >made up primarily of men from The Hardin Co. and the surrounding area. I have a >roster and will check same if you think your ancestor was in that unit. If you >have knowledge of this outfit, that you would share, please get in touch. > >Thanks, > >David >Cerro Gordo > > > > >Julie Preston wrote: > >> For whomever requested the lookup for DAVIS & LAUGHLIN, >> >> >From "Shiloh Remembered": >> >> p. 27 --- DAVIS >> >> "The Bert HAYS Story >> >> On the list of most notorious guerillas compiled in the National Archives >> appears the name of W.B. (Bert) HAYS. He is listed by Union Authorities as >> the No. 1 guerilla during the Civil War years. >> >> HAYS was the son of Wallis HAYS, a planter of good means who moved into >> Hardin County before the war. His brother was Lawson HAYS, a deputy U.S. >> Marshall in Savannah in 1860. Bert and Lawson HAYS were members of the 1st >> Cavalry Regiment. When Gen. Joe Wheeler was pursued across the Duck River >> in June 1863, the unit was thrown in to stop the advance of Gen. Gordon >> Granger. The fight allowed Wheeler to escape but in the process the >> regiment was destroyed with 292 prisoners being captured. The remainder was >> consolidated into the 51st Tenn. Infantry. Bert HAYS became a captain and >> led his company in battle at Brice's Crossroads. >> >> Then followed a puzzle! HAYS' outfit disappeared. It is not clear whether >> the unit went on private scouting or whether it went into desertion. During >> the last year of the war, HAYS was known to be operating in the vicinity of >> Waterloo, Ala., an area which was noted for spying and all kinds of guerilla >> activities. Capt. S.P. Emerson, Co. B, 6th Kentucky, was known to be in the >> area. He had been associated with Gen. John Hunt Morgan during much of the >> war. >> >> Emerson was said to have worked with HAYS. Rewards were being offered to >> Confederate soldiers who would desert and join the Union Army. HAYS and >> Emerson caught Will DAVIS at Ransomtown near Wayne County. He was on his >> way to give up and claim the reward. They punched his eyes out and hung him >> to a tree then sent word to the Union officers that DAVIS was read to "turn >> over" and for them to come and pick him up. >> >> p. 30 -- LAUGHLIN (this para. included in a posting earlier today, 1/19/99) >> "August 28, 1908 -- 6th Tennessee Cavalry, 6th Annual Meeting at the >> Laughlin Springs where the regiment was encamped and organized in August >> 1862......The following is a list of veterans both home and visiting: >> Company A: J.J. Swain, W.A. LAUGHLIN, E.W. Hester, J.L. Robinson, W.J.N. >> Rose, J.W. Hester, H.C. Moore, H.V. Flower, J.R. WILSON, S.W. Fish." >> >> Regards, >> Julie Preston >> anpreston@msn.com >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: rrc3pr@199.218.201.6 <rrc3pr@199.218.201.6> >> To: Julie Preston <anpreston@email.msn.com> >> Date: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 2:32 PM >> Subject: "Shiloh Remembered" Lookups Offered >> >> >Davis, Will -- 27 >> >Laughlin, W.A. -- 30 >> > >> > >> >> ==== TNMCNAIR Mailing List ==== >> Where would we be without our ancestors? >> Pat >> pwjones@centuryinter.net > > > >