Thanks Steve for your interest in my ancestors' accomodations. I am not in possession on the family album that the 2 pictures are in. They are with my 85 year old grandmother in her cedar chest. She lives in West Texas where the Calcotes still own large partiles of land in Wheeler County. And after my first child was born, we moved to the mountians of Western Virgina some years ago. I did have her look at them over the weekend before I saw your reply and as she can see, one picture is of Levi G.'s tombstone and one with John's son, William Seger Calcote wearing his daddy's uniform in a UDC (United Daughters of the Confederacy) Reunion. She is not savy with computers and will not take out a single photo of out very large and very old album. She will try to have my mother scan the photos the next time she visits as I would like to research these medals and see what they are and what they mean. I do not have much military history on these two boys' father, Levi, bt do on John James. Accoding to muster rolls, he enlisted on Sept. 7th 1861 at Houston, TX. I have on his muster cards that he was involved with the Battles of Ft. Pemberton and Snyder's Bluff in early 1863. These two battles were fought in the months leading up to the Vicksburg Campain. Although these battles ended up as Southern victories, Gen. Pemberton had to surrender Vicksburg to Sherman and Grant due to starvation. These battles were intrumental to the Vickburg campain as Grant and Sherman flooded the Yazoo River in order for his gun boats to reach the city. John James and his fellow soldiers under Gen. Pemberton sunk a large Union gun steamer to block the river route and forced the remained back up river. Now, as we still lost that campain, we did not suffer large cassualties. Aprox. 29,000 soldiers surrendered and 3,000 gave their lives. The Confederates were also outnumbered over 2 to 1. With out the "small" battles of Ft. Pemberton (a make-shift fort of cotton balles and dirt) and Snyder's Bluff, think of hpow many more men would have died.