Hey Jim,
Thanks. I will drop over to the Md sight and see if I can't post something. My father and his people were all Marylanders and they all fought for the South. My mom's mom's folks were S.Carolinians and you know who they fought for. Her dad was from Ky and his father was the Surgeon with the 11th Ky. Cavalry (U.S.). You want to hear something odd, my gr gr grandfather Dr. Alexius Llewellyn Middleton from Charles and Pr. Georges Counties, Md was an Asst-Surg with the 2nd Texas Volunteers in the Trans-Miss Dept.. Now what in the world was he, a Marylander, doing way down there?!? I figure he was just sent where he was needed or perhaps he was visiting and traveling and got caught up in the war (I think he graduated from Med school in like 1860). I do know this. When he got home after the war he slowly lost interest in the medical profession and devoted his time more and more to farming, which is something he loved. Around 1900 he owned 1600 acres on the border between Charles and Pr. Georges Counties. Two things might have affected his decision to get out of medicine. I was told he never was the same after the war and also never the same after his kid sister, whom he was very close to, died at the age of 18. Perhaps he just got disalusioned with the medical profession due to all that. I think even though he farmed later in life he was still a country doctor for the locals. Just a bit of interesting history there.
Take care,
David Middleton Edelen II
Alabama