Thanks for the additional information. The rest of the story is that Willis M. Cash returned to Atlanta in 1864 to look after his family that lived close to the Battle of Jonesboro battlefield. The Union army was camped around his home at the time and according to family history fire was obtained from his house to detroy the railroad tracks there. Not long after that Willis, his wife, and young children went north to Madison, Indiana to look for their son Thomas J. Cash who was captued (or perhaps deserted) north of Atlanta in July 1864. They never found Thomas, but stayed in Indiana until the end of the war. The people in Indiana were very kind to them (the Cash family called the area "the land of milk and honey") and new friends there made a collection and paid for the family's trip back to Atlanta. There they found there son and began to rebuild their lives. Willis Cash put his carpentry skills to work and helped rebuild houses in Atlanta after the war. His son Thomas J. Cash helped him and later became a farmer there.

George