Bruce,
Thank you! I had no idea an obituary existed for Major Chew. Hopefully sometime I can look it up, and with luck maybe it will add some interesting information about his life.
I had no idea what became of Francis Chew after the Civil War. It's interesting that he ended up in Memphis where Robert had lived for a time. While reading the article in North & South magazine I was struck by the contrast of environments where these two brothers had served the Confederacy- from Robert at Prairie Grove to Francis eventually finding himself in the middle of the South Pacific.
Allan