Roll states that J.E. deserted the 7th MS Cavalry in Nov. 1862 and joined the 41st MS Infantry w/o permission. The lead card in J.E.'s file (actually this card is an evelope that holds all the other cards) states that he was also in the 41st MS Infantry, but, while there were several Turners in the 41st, I cannot match any of them to J.E., so this entry must be an error. J.E. apparently did join the 23rd MS Infantry without permission, as the roll from that unit for June 1863 states that he was sent back to his unit (Falkner's) on June 5, 1863. However, other records indicate that he was back with the 7th by April 1863, on extra duty in the Quartermaster's Dept., so there must not have been any hard feelings (i.e., no court martial!). Falkner's 7th was originally called the 1st MS Partisan Rangers, of which unit J.E. was a member. The 1st was disbanded in Nov. 1862, then reconstituted as the 7th MS Cav. in March 1863. Records from the 23rd MS indicate that J.E. joined "by transfer" from Falkner's unit on Nov. 10, 1862, so he was member (legally or otherwise) of the 23rd at a time when there was no 1st MS. J.E. was also (as a member of the 23rd) left at Oxford to wait on another (presumably sick or wounded) soldier. Listed as a member of the 1st MS, he was employed for the entire month of November at Abbeville, MS, as a wagon master. He was employed for most of Oct. 1863 in the same capacity at Morse Mills, MS. Weirdly, as a POW, he and several other soldiers not of the 7th were surrendered and paroled at war's end at LaGrange, TN, on May 29, 1865. A note says that he left his command (i.e., deserted?) at Meridian in April 1865, but the handwriting was already on the wall at that point in Mr. Lincoln's War. You can order all of J.E.'s records and try to sort this all out yourself from the link at the top of this page! -- Jim Huffman, suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's after trying to figure all of these records out!!!