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Re: Native-Americans in the Civil War

MY GRGRGRANDPA WAS NOAH MACKS. HE APPEARED AS AN ANCESTOR ON THE 1950 REGISTER OF EASTERN CREEKS. HE SERVED IN THE CIVIL WAR CO B. 2 BATTALION OF ALABAMA LIGHT ARTILLERY. ACCORDING TO INFO I HAVE HE WAS ON A CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF DESERTERS IN THE RESERVE DIVISION. FIRST CORPS, ARMY OF MISSISSIPPI, FOR THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS, REPORT DATED TULLAHOMA TENN. NOV. 1862.

MY FAMILY WAS AND SOME STILL ARE FROM SOUTHWEST AL AND NW FLORIDA. WHILE I HAVE NO PROOF OF ANY INDIAN ANCESTRY WE KNOW IT TO BE TRUE. HOW WOULD I FIND OUT ANY MORE INFO ON NOAH MACKS AND HIS WAR EXPERIENCE, ETC. ALSO THE LIBRARIAN FROM THE FLORIDA LIBRARY IN PENSACOLA SAID THAT MACKS MAY HAVE ONE TIME BEEN MONIAC.

THANKS,
DEE

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