Numerous Confederate anccestors,and one Yankee.

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I have many Confederate ancestors who served in Wauls' Texas Legion,Willis'Texas Cavalry Battalion,23rd Alabama Inf. 55th Alabama Inf. 5th Alabama Inf.12th S.C.Inf. 14th.Ga. Inf. Batchelor Rifles,TST 1st.Tennessee Volunteers(Turneys'Hornets)and one Yankee so far,who served with the 126th.Illinois Inf.Regt. I am still doing research and will probably find some more on both sides.
 
I'm in the same boat. I have identified literally over a hundred rebel relatives. Early this year, after kicking the woodpile, I finally found a Yankee relative. He was a gg uncle. He was from Iowa in the "Temperance" regiment. Good looking man, I must say.
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Batchelor Rifles,TST 1st.Tennessee Volunteers(Turneys'Hornets)

What is this? One unit or 2?

I had an ancestor in General Chalmers Cavalry Division which later included Willis' Texas Cavalry as part of McCulloch's Brigade. I would be interested to know when he served with them.
 
What is this? One unit or 2?

I had an ancestor in General Chalmers Cavalry Division which later included Willis' Texas Cavalry as part of McCulloch's Brigade. I would be interested to know when he served with them.
Batchelor Rifles,Texas State Troops......I abbreviated it as TST.....I apologize for the confusion..... I should have grouped this unit with Wauls' Texas legion. The original CO was Capt.Timmons,who later became a Colonel in Wauls'. My 2nd ggrandfather,Abel Green Baggett, was in this particular unit....... My other ggrandfather,Vernon H. Lockley, was in Co.A. Willis' Texas Cavalry Battalion(Wauls') from 1862 until his death in March,1863.
 
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I had 2 ancestors in Co.D, 1st.Tennessee Volunteers(Turneys' Hornets) Capt. John Bevell(Beville) & 3rd.Lt. Thomas H. Baggett......Both of them were ggrand-uncles.
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I have a confession to make....there was another ancestor who was a Yankee for just a little while.....Elijah Lockley....He originally joined the 55th Alabama Inf. and was captured at Champions Hill,Miss,sent to Ft.Delaware,and later,paroled....He then went back to his unit,and was captured again near Gaylesville,Ala. This time he was sent to Camp Douglas,Illinois as a POW. On April 6,1865 he joined the 5th US Volunteer Inf. to get out of prison...He became "Galvanized". Sent west to Ft.Leavenworth,Elijah deserted at the Cottonwood River Crossing,Kansas on June,18,1865...He went back to Alabama and was never caught. He lived to be an old man after settling down with an older widow with 3 kids.
 
I had 2 ancestors in Co.D, 1st.Tennessee Volunteers(Turneys' Hornets) Capt. John Bevell(Beville) & 3rd.Lt. Thomas H. Baggett......Both of them were ggrand-uncles.

Turney's 1st Infantry, Co. D were the "Ridgeville Hornets" I have two gg uncles who served in this same company. One died in service in Richmond. One came home. Mine were Robert and Edward Overby. They were from Awalt, Franklin Co. "Home" by the way is now under water. Awalt, Tennessee now lies at the bottom of Tim's Ford Reservoir.
 
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Turney's 1st Infantry, Co. D were the "Ridgeville Hornets" I have two gg uncles who served in this same company. One died in service in Richmond. One came home. Mine were Robert and Edward Overby. They were from Awalt, Franklin Co. "Home" by the way is now under water. Awalt, Tennessee now lies at the bottom of Tim's Ford Reservoir.
Outstanding! Your gg uncles and mine were in the same Company D. My ancestor Capt.John Bevell(real spelling is Beville) was wounded at Gettysburg(Picketts' Charge),and later captured at Petersburg,Va....He took the oath and came back home to Franklin County....After the war he moved to Texas...... 3rd.Lt. Thomas H. Baggett of Co.D was mortally wounded at Petersburg and died at home in 1864.... 2 other relatives in Co.D(Baggett cousins) were 2 brothers, Pvts. Daniel & George Weaver.... Daniel enlisted at Ridgeville,Tenn. in 1861,was wounded at Seven Pines in 1862...Captured at Winchester (1863) and sent to Ft.Delaware where he was exchanged (1864) after signing the loyalty oath....His brother George deserted at Flynt Hill,Va. in 1863,surrendered 2 months later in Ky. and released from McLean Barracks on 9/26/1863 after taking the oath. They were all from around Winchester,Franklin Cty,Tenn.
 
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Outstanding! Your gg uncles and mine were in the same Company D. My ancestor Capt.John Bevell(real spelling is Beville) was wounded at Gettysburg(Picketts' Charge),and later,captured at Petersburg,Va....He took the oath and came back home to Franklin County,later he moved to Texas. 3rd.Lt. Thomas H. Baggett of Co.D was mortally wounded at Petersburg and died at home in 1864.... 2 other relatives in Co.D(Baggett cousins) were 2 brothers, Pvts. Daniel & George Weaver.... Daniel enlisted at Ridgeville,Tenn. in 1861,was wounded at Seven Pines in 1862...Captured at Winchester (1863) and sent to Ft.Delaware where he was exchanged (1864) after signing the loyalty oath....His brother George deserted at Flynt Hill,Va. in 1863,surrendered 2 months later in Ky. and released from McLean Barracks on 9/26/1863 after taking the oath. They were all from around Winchester,Franklin Cty,Tenn.
I forgot to add that ggrand-uncle Thomas Baggetts' widow Margaret Smith later married George W. Sanders who had also served in Co.D.
 
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Vernon H. Lockley, was in Co.A. Willis' Texas Cavalry Battalion(Wauls') from 1862 until his death in March,1863.

Willis Texas Cav was at Fort Pemberton, Miss, at that time. Of course they were moving around a lot and im not sure when they arrived there.
 
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Willis Texas Cav was at Fort Pemberton, Miss, at that time. Of course they were moving around a lot and im not sure when they arrived there.
Family history only notes that Vernon died March 16,1863 and is buried in Warren County,Miss. Ft.Pemberton was under siege by the Union Army from March 12-19,1863. Since Vernon was in Co.A I need to find out if they were part of the defensive force....I know that Willis'Battalion was comprised of 6 Cavalry Companies,but don't know if all or part of them were at the fort. The last entry in Vernon's muster record states that he was detached on special detail to herd cattle about that time....I do know that Willis' Battalion was itself detached from Wauls' Legion not long after Vicksburg fell,and by 1864 they were part of General Chalmers' Division.
 
Regarding Willis' Cavalry Battalion,Wauls' Legion, My grandfather,James Lockley,(Vernons' oldest son) received a Texas Confederate Pension#23735 from 1913 until he died in 1923,and his widow,grandma Malisa Baggett, continued to receive it until her passing in 1948. In his pension application,which was witnessed under oath by 2 former members of Wauls',Alexander Wallin & Enoch Heusler, grandpa James stated that he was with Willis' Co.A and joined his father Vernon in Dec.1862.....Later on he continued with Wauls' Legion( joining an attached unit, Co.A, 2nd.Texas commanded by Lt.Col.O.Steele(Steeles' Command), under the mis-spelled name of "Leckley") and they surrendered in the Spring of 1865 at Houston,Texas........ James was only 15 in 1862(Born June, 1847) and there is no mention of him on the official records,yet he swore that he was with Willis' Battalion & Wauls' Legion thruout most of the war...... His claim was that he traveled alone from Texas to Mississippi to join his father,who was in Co.A.... James was too young to be "officially enlisted" in Willis',and right after his father died, he attached himself to the Legion and proceeded back to Texas with them....... that's the way it must have happened.....However,it is still a mystery that I would like to solve someday. Both his witnesses,Wallin & Heusler, were officially enlisted men in Wauls' Legion. I know Willis' Cavalry surrendered in Alabama and Wauls' Legion did so in Texas in May,1865, 1 month shy of James' 18th birthday.
 
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My cover photo is of Herschel Crunk(1826-1892).....He married my ggrand-uncle Alfred Lockleys' daughter Mary Jane at Milam County,Texas in 1862.....They had 7 children. Herschel joined the 27th Texas Brigade,Texas State Troops, in 1861,but was furloughed home with a certificate of disability after 6 months...... I don't know what his injuries were,but it didn't prevent him from having a bunch of kids with Mary Jane......... I really like his face.
 
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