D'Ann,
I am a Civil War reenactor and I am also a history buff. I am missing something in your
question do you want to know what battles took place there or what?
Paula Jones
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From: DAStoddard(a)aol.com
To: CHAMBLEE-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 12:11 PM
Subject: [CHAMBLEE LIST] John David Chamblee and MS in the Civil War
I have been musing over the problems post-Civil War in MS that might affect
census enumerations. Is anyone well versed in the battled and happenings in
Mississippi during the Civil War so they can educate me? I'm not a Civil War
buff or historian, but always rely on you Southern cousins for that. If
desperate, I will actually do the right thing--consult a history book.
I was trying to find John David Chamblee 1804-1877 (son of Lewis Chamblee) in
the Leake Co MS 1870 census, but alas, I can't seem to find his household. In
1880 his second wife, "Darcas" is living with her daughter Arminta Earnest
Chamblee (Hunt) in Leake Co MS as John had already died by that time.
John David Chamblee died in Leake Co in 1877, was on the 1850, 1860 censuses
there. Thus, John David Chamblee and family had a long history of being and
staying in Leake Co MS before and after the Civil War.
The 1870 census is the hardest one to locate people. There are WAY too many
missing the hundreds of individuals I have looked for in the 1870. After the
Civil War there was alot of shifting and movement of peoples. I also believed
alot of people were left off that census (missed). Recently I compared a
township in 1860 against one in 1870 and there was almost a complete turnover
of people. The struggles and hardships must have been so profound.
--DS
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