2 Lost Soldiers

[The Real Skip]

@ErnieMac Thanks so much for posting that!!
It's great to see that final record. He was buried at Finn's Point National Cemetery in a mass grave, so there is no gravestone. This record is the definitive proof of how his life ended. That helps so much!

@Fairfield good to know! I assumed things tended to work that way much of the time. I think these brothers would have enlisted at the same time and been in the same unit, but I'm still searching for evidence.

 

[Stryker65]

Rufus G. Wilder was a member of Company D, 8th Confederate Cavalry. The regiment was formed in the aftermath of Shiloh by consolidating three cavalry battalions (Baskerville's, Bell's & Brewer's) composed of 6 Alabama and 4 Mississippi Companies. As noted Rufus Wilder was captured at Shelbyville during the Tullahoma Campaign and subsequently died at Ft. Delaware. The following document is a Federal POW Death Register (from Ancestry.com) showing R. G. Wilder on line 393 of the document.
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IIRC the Mississippi companies in the unit came from Brewer's (2nd) Alabama and Mississippi Cavalry Battalion, composed of both AL and MS companies. Brewer's battalion fought at Shiloh.