Looking for info on any Gorrell's or Jamison's...

[FranklinCheathamIV]

Looking on any information on confederate soldiers with the last name Gorrell or Jamison. Specifically in Tennessee or Southern KY. How can I go about finding any information. Im new to the subject and just need a place to start if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[TerryB]

Looking on any information on confederate soldiers with the last name Gorrell or Jamison. Specifically in Tennessee or Southern KY. How can I go about finding any information. Im new to the subject and just need a place to start if possible. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

One way is to subscribe to ancestry.com They link to info posted at the American Civil War Research Database, a paysite where I post a lot of detail that I run across in my research.

 

[FranklinCheathamIV]

Thanks Terry I am member there as well and have not had much luck. I will give it another shot........

 

[Nathanb1]

Thanks Terry I am member there as well and have not had much luck. I will give it another shot........

Occasionally I find that by working backwards from the last people I know about in the 1930 census, I have better luck. I assume you're tried that? (By the way, love your "name"--what's the background on that?)

 

[DixieRifles]

I searched the Confederate Service Records for Tennessee for GORRELL and got 72 "hits". There were 3 different ones in the 5th (McKenzie) Tennessee Cavalry. Sometimes family members joined the same regiment.

You didn't say if you were looking for Union or Confederate.

My suggestion is to locate the ancestor in the 1860 Census. That would give you a better idea as to which state he served with. It's easier to match a military record to a known person in the Census than to try to locate a soldier without knowing his home state.

Steve

 

[FranklinCheathamIV]

I searched the Confederate Service Records for Tennessee for GORRELL and got 72 "hits". There were 3 different ones in the 5th (McKenzie) Tennessee Cavalry. Sometimes family members joined the same regiment.

You didn't say if you were looking for Union or Confederate.

My suggestion is to locate the ancestor in the 1860 Census. That would give you a better idea as to which state he served with. It's easier to match a military record to a known person in the Census than to try to locate a soldier without knowing his home state.

Steve

Been looking on ancestry.com and found all sorts of stuff. Thanks for the advice. Think my direct decendant fought w company E of 10th Tennessee that mustered in Montgomery County. WOuld like to dig a little deeper but not sure where to turn from here.

 

[DixieRifles]

WOuld like to dig a little deeper but not sure where to turn from here.

Try tracing your family lineage back to the 1860 Census. I know this is hard when you get back to around 1880-1920's. But go to your library and look for genealogy books and Census Records for those years. (Footnote.com has the Census for 1930) If you can get back to a known ancestor and find where he was living in 1860 Census, then that is a good place to start searching military records.

If you jump back to 1860 and just look for a name, then you will be shooting in the dark. I have one family group that seemed to have no one who served as the father just died before the war and the son was too young.

Be sure to check with your family if they know of any family historian. Someone probably has plotted out the family pedigree chart already.

Steve