I notice you have lots of resources and very active on this site. You also seem to have Union information besides mostly doing cSA.

My g.grandfater is my main CW asset and I have his files from all three units he served in (4th MN INf, 11th LA Inf a.d. which became 49th USCT, 9th Vetrs Res. I do have a great grand uncle in the 9th MN Inf who left MS quickly after the Brice's Crossroads event.

Doing all two of my travels in MS, including checking with Gordon Cotton at Vicksburg courthouse museumn before he retired, and Terry Wenschel at the NPS park.I could find nothing on him or much on that colored regt where he did time as 1st Sgt. Co.H. He received a medical discharge in June 64 and immediately felt better to take a job as the Q.M. Agent on Is #98 for the rest of the year. That paid him $100 a month and he was the only white guy on the island and was sort of the judge and mayor for 100 former slaves whose owners had run off. He put the men to work choping and hauling wood to the landing for Union river boats.

I know that regt. did provost duty in Vicksburg, Port Gibson, and that winter guarded the cotton crop at Waterproof , LA. That is all I have, Do you have anything to add to the above?

He was Charles B. Smith of West Union, MN. I tend his and the family graves up the road about 30 miles.