Corp.H.H. Vinson

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I am searching for any information about Corp. H.H. Vinson 40th Alabama Co. or Pvt. W.R. Vinson Co. D
 
Here is a card for W.R. Vinson - PVT Co D 40 Al infantry showing him on a list of prisoners captured at Chattanooga. Is this your guy? (there are entries for a W. R. Vincent also, that could be the same fellow).
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That looks like him he was supposed to have been taken prisoner around the Look Out Mountain area
 
W.R. Vinson was H.H. Vinson's brother they were both 40th Ala. Co. D. They were both take prisoner at Look Out Mountain I was trying to find information on both of them thank you. In records the name sometimes shows up as Vincent. They both at Vicksburg taken prisoner and paroled then taken prisoner again at Look Out Mountain.
 
They were both then taken to Rock Island then transferred to Point Look Out Md
. for prisoner exchange
 
Here is a card for W.R. Vinson - PVT Co D 40 Al infantry showing him on a list of prisoners captured at Chattanooga. Is this your guy? (there are entries for a W. R. Vincent also, that could be the same fellow).
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How did you pull that up so quickly? What site did you use?
 
How did you pull that up so quickly? What site did you use?

Here is his record that says he was sent to Rock Island, ILL. It had just opened and the prisoners from Lookout Mtn and Missionary Ridge were the first prisoners to arrive.
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The 40th Alabama was part of Moore's Alabama Brigade. My ancestor was in 30th Mississippi and part of Walthall's Mississippi Brigade and was captured as well. Walthall's Brigade was placed on the Western slope of Lookout Mountain as skirmishers to protect the "left" flank. Moore's Brigade was basically placed on the East side of Lookout Mountain to protect that "left" flank by containing the Union from breaking out of Chattanooga. Pettus' Brigade and some artillery were placed on top of Lookout Mtn.
When Walthall's Brigade was overwhelmed by an attack by a division, they fell back to Craven's house on a ledge on the NorthEast face of the mountain. Requests for help were sent out to Moore's Brigade but confusion reigned waiting on clear orders from their commander "Mudwall" Jackson. The 40 Alabama, like the 34th Alabama who had just recently been paroled after capture at Vicksburg, were armed with cast-off rifles that most regiments refused to use. The 40 Alabama entered the line at the Craven's House and fought a delaying action until darkness arrived. The 96 Illinois and 51 Ohio launched an attack. The 51 Ohio was on a ledge 100 higher up and came crashing down on the Confederate position. Moore saw there was no option but to fall back to Sumnertown Road.
 
A couple of his records state he enlisted March 22, 1862 at Choctaw County by A. A. Coleman. His cards are difficult to read as they are faded out. The first ones list him with rank of 3rd Corporal but the latter ones only a Private. The first one probably reflect an elected rank.

Fold3 also has a Casualty Report for Lookout Mtn and Missionary Ridge. These reports were probably filled out after they fell back to their camp at Dalton.
This is a report of Moore's Brigade and shows the two Vinson brothers but their names recorded as "Vincent". Checking back to the files on the 40 Alabama, there is no one named Vincent.
Oh. I noticed H. H. Vinson was in three different companies: K and maybe G and then D. William R. was also in Company D. Then there is a Thomas L. Vinson who was a 2-Lt in company K.

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H.H. was a 3rd Corp. He did enlist March 22nd 1862 and was taken prisoner at Vicksburg, and was paroled. He was taken prisoner again in November 1863. The last name Vinson has been spelled Vincent on several different records at different times during the war.
 
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We have just found Thomas Vinson in our family history, we didn't know there was three brothers until a family member found him in some old family records. We didn't know he existed until now.
 
Henry Harrison Vinson was my gg-grandfather. He and his siblings were orphaned prior to 1850. After the war, he married Mary Lucinda (Smith) Butler in Lauderdale County, MS. They moved to Choctaw County, AL where they lived until 1875 when they moved along with the families of two of her sisters, Sylvia Smith Clark and Amanda Smith Ritchie, to Port Sullivan, Milam County, Texas. Their extended families then moved to Ellis County, Texas after 1900. According to his State of Texas Death Certificate, his father was named H.H. Vinson. If correct, then we might have a Sr. and Jr. attached to their names. We are about 99.9% certain that his grandmother was Casandra (MNU) Vinson who was enumerated living next door to William Smith in Bibb County, AL in 1840 Census. William Smith was the father of Wilkin Smith who married Martha Susan Broadhead and were parents of H.H. Vinson, Jr's wife, Mary Lucinda Smith. Casandra's daughter, Jemima, married Enoch Rigden and both families moved to Talladega County, AL prior to the 1850 Census. Research shows multiple marriages between Vinsons and Smiths, Broadheads, Pearsons and Coopers as they migrated between Bibb, Shelby, and Talladega Counties in Alabama and Lauderdale and Clarke Counties in Mississippi. Henry Harrison, William Riley and Thomas L. Vinsons of the Alabama 40th Regiment were living with their aunt Jemima Rigden in Talladega County in 1850 just two doors from Casandra Vinson and her younger children still at home.

1850 Talladega Dist, Talladega County, Alabama

235 Vincent, Cassandra 53 1797 F NC (Surname Vinson)
Sarah 32 1818 F GA
Polly 28 1822 F GA
Nathan 24 1826 M GA
William M. 18 1832 M GA
237 Rigdon, Enoch 23 1827 M AL
Jemima 27 1823 F GA
Quince Ann 4 1846 F AL
James W 1 1849 M AL
Vinsant, Thos W 16 1834 M AL (Thomas L. W. Vinson)
Will R C 12 1838 M AL (William Riley Vinson)
Quince Ann 10 1840 F AL (Quince Ann Frances Vinson)
Henry R 8 1842 M AL (Henry Harrison Vinson)
Parilee 4 1846 F AL (Parilee Jane Vinson)


In 1853, William M. Vincent (1832), son of Cassandra Vincent in dwelling 235, married Elizabeth Broadhead, a first-cousin of Mary Lucinda Smith and niece of her mother Martha Broadhead Smith. Elizabeth was the daughter of Felix Broadhead who was living in Bibb County, Alabama in 1840. William M. Vincent served in the Civil War and after the War, in 1866, he divorced Elizabeth Broadhead and married the widow, Rebecca Smith Watson, the younger sister of Mary Lucinda Smith. This was two years before his nephew, Henry Harrison Vinson, married Mary Lucinda Smith.

Thomas L. W. Vinson married Mary Broadhead, sister of Elizabeth Broadhead who married his uncle William M. Vinson. Since Mary Broadhead was only 17 years old, her father Felix had to go before the county clerk and sign his authorization for the marriage. The person transcribing the marriage records got the authorization affidavit confused with a marriage record and entered her father's name in place of the bride's name. The on-line marriage records for Mississippi at Familysearch.org do not include the document images. Felix Broadhead was living in Clarke County, MS at the time of the 1850 Census. I suspect that Casandra Vinson and her family moved to Clarke County, MS after 1850 and Casandra died prior to 1860. Many of these Broadheads and Vinsons moved to Choctaw County, AL prior to 1860 which is where we find 19 year old H.H. Vinson boarding and listed as a student.
"Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911"
Name Thomas L. W. Vinson
Spouse Felix Broadhead (Mary Broadhead, b. 1838)
Date 11 May 1855
Place Clarke County, Mississippi
GS Film 890132

 
Here is his record that says he was sent to Rock Island, ILL. It had just opened and the prisoners from Lookout Mtn and Missionary Ridge were the first prisoners to arrive.
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The 40th Alabama was part of Moore's Alabama Brigade. My ancestor was in 30th Mississippi and part of Walthall's Mississippi Brigade and was captured as well. Walthall's Brigade was placed on the Western slope of Lookout Mountain as skirmishers to protect the "left" flank. Moore's Brigade was basically placed on the East side of Lookout Mountain to protect that "left" flank by containing the Union from breaking out of Chattanooga. Pettus' Brigade and some artillery were placed on top of Lookout Mtn.
When Walthall's Brigade was overwhelmed by an attack by a division, they fell back to Craven's house on a ledge on the NorthEast face of the mountain. Requests for help were sent out to Moore's Brigade but confusion reigned waiting on clear orders from their commander "Mudwall" Jackson. The 40 Alabama, like the 34th Alabama who had just recently been paroled after capture at Vicksburg, were armed with cast-off rifles that most regiments refused to use. The 40 Alabama entered the line at the Craven's House and fought a delaying action until darkness arrived. The 96 Illinois and 51 Ohio launched an attack. The 51 Ohio was on a ledge 100 higher up and came crashing down on the Confederate position. Moore saw there was no option but to fall back to Sumnertown Road.
A couple of his records state he enlisted March 22, 1862 at Choctaw County by A. A. Coleman. His cards are difficult to read as they are faded out. The first ones list him with rank of 3rd Corporal but the latter ones only a Private. The first one probably reflect an elected rank.

Fold3 also has a Casualty Report for Lookout Mtn and Missionary Ridge. These reports were probably filled out after they fell back to their camp at Dalton.
This is a report of Moore's Brigade and shows the two Vinson brothers but their names recorded as "Vincent". Checking back to the files on the 40 Alabama, there is no one named Vincent.
Oh. I noticed H. H. Vinson was in three different companies: K and maybe G and then D. William R. was also in Company D. Then there is a Thomas L. Vinson who was a 2-Lt in company K.

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All three of these Vinson brothers military career was in Company D of Alabama 40th. The copier of the service records made a funny looking D where he slanted letters backward and did not close the top of the D. Thomas L. Vinson was still a 2nd Lt in Company D when it was sent to Mobile for rest in Jan 1865. By the end of that month it was sent to North Carolina where it was combined with the remenants of the Alabama 19th and 46th. Heavy casualties were suffered in the final months of the War and it is believed the Thomas L. Vinson was one of the casualties.
 
W.R. Vinson was H.H. Vinson's brother they were both 40th Ala. Co. D. They were both take prisoner at Look Out Mountain I was trying to find information on both of them thank you. In records the name sometimes shows up as Vincent. They both at Vicksburg taken prisoner and paroled then taken prisoner again at Look Out Mountain.
WR Vinson was transferred for parole on 2 March 1865. Henry Harrison Vinson was not transfered until 20 March 1965. W.R. Vinson married Martha Martin after his exchanged following capture at Vicksburg. His first son George was born 30 April 1864 while he was incarcerated at Rock Island. The curious thing is that his second child, Virginia was born 7 September 1865, less than 6-1/2 months after the date he was still a Union POW. He had to travel from Rock Island to Pt Lookout while the war was still raging from eastern Tennessee through the Carolinas and Virginia. I assume that these prisoners were actually exchanged in Maryland and were taken by ship to someplace out of the battle zones (such as Mobile) and then they had to make their way home by foot or coach from there. One has to wonder if the birth record for Virginia are correct or if perhaps W.R. did not get home soon enough for Martha? Very unlikely a 3 month premature baby could survive in those days when deliveries were mostly by midwives and few births in hospitals.
 
If Thomas Vinson was killed in the last days of the war that would be a good reason we never knew the connection or heard of him . It sounds like we have the same connections
 
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