From the "Lest We Forget" Roster of the 7th Mississippi:
J. Milton Brister Capt. Co. B 7th Mississippi was killed at Chickamauga September 20, 1863. He is buried at Marietta Confederate cemetery.
John O. Brister, Private Co. B 7th Misissippi died of wounds in GA Atlanta ”Works” Chattahoochee River 7-14-64 (See John Buster)
The following is a letter from John Brister to Thomas Price in 1861 from the Price family letters compiled by Mis Bonnie Loe Goles and published by T. Anna Fuller. The letter and index notes are included in my unpublished manuscript, "Lest We Forget-The Immortal 7th Mississippi":
[This letter was written on the back of a "Letter Nov. 8, 1861 Pas Chrischan [Pass Christian, MS] from William Price Co. B to his brother Thomas Price:
"John Brister to T. J. Price"
“Nov 8 1861
Dair frend
I seat mi self this morning to drop you a few liens to let you now that I am well and a doing hoping thes liens may come saft to hand and fiend you and famly well and a doing well.
Thomas I hant nothing interresting to rit to you at present. Times is hard her and loks like worse a coming. The hant motch sickness her now. The mosketers is very bad her. The wont let no one sleep in the night. The yankeys is stil clos by. We have lively times her. All well and a plenty to eat and nothing to do but to dril 6 ours ever day.
So I well clos mi letter for the present time.
John Brister to Mr. Thomas J. Price” (JB)
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Index
Thomas [Thomas J. Price][Cousin of William Price, Later joined his cousin and two brothers in Co. B 7th Miss. He and his brother Z. M. "Mon" Price were killed at Shiolh. His other brother Henry H. Price was killed at Murfreesboro. William Price survived the wae.
Mosquitos: “The mosketers is very bad her. The wont let no one sleep in the night.”
The yankeys
Camp Life: “We have lively times her. All well and a plenty to eat and nothing to do but to dril 6 ours ever day.”
John Brister (Two possibilities J.O. Brister or J. M. Brister):
[John Brister; Brister, John O. Pvt Co. B 7th Miss.; died of wounds in GA Atlanta “Works” Chattahoochee River 7-14-64 (See John Buster)]
[Brister, J.M.; J. Milton; John M. WIA Murfreesboro [Capt. Killed Sept. 20, 1863] Chickamauga; buried at Marietta, GA Confederate Cemetery. (He is referred to as John Brister in Price Family Letters, but listed as James M. Brister in Miss. Graves registration.] Mr. Thomas J. Price [Thomas J. Price]
If you have any more information about these men please contact me.
Regards, Ron Skellie