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This could be your granddaddy. Serving as an Overseer on fortifactions would indicate leadership skills. He, like a great number of men
paroled at Vicksburg, never returned to their commands following the 30 day furloughs granted by Pemberton. Just like Gen. Grant
predicted.

"The companies surrendered at Vicksburg, July 4, 1863, also assembled in the parole camp at Enterprise, where 291 of the regiment were reported present in November, 1863; in December 481 not exchanged. January 1, 1864, 160 officers and men in parole camp at Enterprise, aggregate present and absent, 1,056." http://mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/1st_mississippi_light_artillery.htm

See also: http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=1st+mississippi+light+artillery&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Ira S. Taylor, Private, Company I, 1st Regiment Mississippi Light Artillery, enlisted August 2, 1862 at Yazoo City, Miss. by Lt. Compton for 3 years or the war, on detached duty Overseer, Yazoo fortifications November 10, 1862, Snyders Bluff, December, 1862, captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863, paroled July 7, listed as absent without leave August 23, 1864, not exchanged, recorded on the March & April, 1864 muster roll as absent, ordered to Parole camp, dropped from the rolls as a deserter on the Sept. & Oct., 1864 muster, no further records

M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi

1st Regiment, Mississippi Light Artillery

1st Artillery Regiment was organized during the late summer of 1862 with eleven companies. During the war the various companies served as both light and heavy artillery but not as one command. The regiment was assigned to the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and Companes A, C, D, F, G, I, K, and L were assigned to the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana, Company E to the Trans-Mississippi Department, and Company G to the Army of Tennessee. All disbanded before the end of the war. Its commanders were Colonel William T. Withers, Lieutenant Colonel James P. Parker, and Majors Benjamin R. Holmes and Jefferson L. Wofford.
http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm

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