Marcellus Pointer in 1860

[TerryB]

Marcellus Pointer, age 19, of Holly Springs, Miss. Enlisted Co B, 9th Miss Inf in March 1861. Served as volunteer ADC to Gen Joe Wheeler from July 1862 until promoted Lt. Col., 12th Ala Cav in Nov 1864. Wounded five times, promoted to full colonel, Apr 1, 1865. Surrendered April 23 and later paroled.

 

[TerryB]

Here's one from the 1870s. The daughter was born about 1870.

 

[AndyHall]

Where did you locate that one?

 

[TerryB]

Where did you locate that one?

My grandmother in Arkansas had a room in her house that her mother had once lived in, as well as one of my gm's older sisters. No one lived in it when I went in there one summer day and found a steamer trunk, inside which were some photos and clippings. The clippings were Pointer's obits, along with random stuff. One of the photos, the 1860 one, was in a case. Behind the velvet of the case was a clipping from 1863-64 detailing some of Lt. Pointer's exploits. A date had been penciled in on the paper behind the photo--Feb 9, 1860. That stuff in the trunk also included a sketch of Gen. Wheeler that I later found out had been clipped from the Nov 14, 1863 issue of Frank Leslie's, the same day Wheeler took 150+ prisoners from the 11th Ky Cav (US) near Maryville. So my interest was piqued and I became a teenage genealogist and Civil War historian.

 

[TerryB]

One or more of the obits mentioned he had pawned a Confederate medal a few days before he died (for $8.00). I believe it was his Southern Cross of Honor, seen here.

 

[TerryB]

Here's the sketch of Wheeler, folded as if to fit in a letter home.