Alan -

So much so quickly! I have now located someone near Mooreville who has located and sent details and photos of Merriman Pound's gravesite. It is located in the Pound Family Cemetery in what is now Lee County, MS. Your information in re his status at the surrender of Ft. Donaldson is most likey accurate. His status and activities during the events with the 43rd are prettty well documented except my error - he re-enlisted in Corinth and not West Point. The reference to the appointment by the Governor of Georgia is contained in a letter from the Acting Adj. Gen. US (MG Wm. E. Bergin) 24 July 1951 in response to a query from my grandmother - his granddaughter. His resignation 9 Feb 1865 must have taken effect as he was eventually paroled at Meridian 9 May 1865 - subsequent to surrender by LG Richard Taylor.

FWIW, all of the Pound line seems to have migrated from England to Virginia in the early 1700's, thence Merriman's line through the piedmont of NC (Anson County), to Putnam County and Milledgeville, GA. The move to MS was undertaken in the 1830's it appears. Merriman may have been the Merriman Pound who was serving as a Justice of the Peace in Itawamba County in the late 1840's. He ran for Probate Judge in 1860. He was also in the legislature in 1864/5.

My many thanks for your interest. Now, if I can only find a photo!