Mike,

Great story. I live in Gulfport, Miss. I have a sister who lives in Greenville. Married a Vaughn. Anyway I fish all the time in front of the fort, or did before Katrina. Not sure how it is now. Anyway some of the first actions of the war, in South Miss., involved the 7th Miss. and Yankees on Ship Island. That being said i would like to invite you to the 7th Miss. site at ---

http://www.geocities.com/poboy1961/index.html

Here you will see some pictures and letters that Jamie Roberts posted for me. Richard B. Pittman is my ggg-grandfather. Enjoy your visit.

I did a bit of research on Ship Island some time back, a site I thought was very good is the 13th Maine site at --

http://www.ametro.net/~bouchard/civilwar/cosdf13me.html

There were several more, I just like this one better.

I do some checking around, who knows I might get lucky and find some info you can actually use.

George