Without trying to be uppity, I will tell you a little about my family.
My ggrandmother's first cousin, a Price, was at Camp Douglas and lived to come home.
My ggg uncle, Solomon Moore, was taken at Helena and never made it back to Arkansas even though he was listed as alive
when the war ended.
My gg grandfather Sgt. J. D. Pearce, 8th Arkansas, was wounded at Shiloh and his first cousin, a Pearce, was killed and thrown in
one of the trenches. As Pearce was raised in Mifflin, Tenn., his daddy got word that he was wounded and sent his brother with the
buckboard to pick him up. Later, on the 4th of July, he sat out walking to Kentucky to catch up with the 8th.
My ggg grandmother Price's's brothers-the Guthrie boys- were with the 10th Arkansas. The youngest was wounded at Shiloh and of course
never came home. Her older brother was captured outside of Vicksburg, I believe it was. He died in prison, Camp Douglas
I believe, but it was a Yankee Prison. The second of the five Guthrie brothers deserted in Little Rock in May of 1863 and later joined
the Union Army. His kin never talked to me again after I told them that he had deserted the Confederacy.
My ggg grandfather Lt. Fielding Price died in the Yankee Prison in Little Rock on Feb. 1, 1865 of smallpox. His widow,
sister to the Guthrie boys, was 8 months with child when Fielding died and was beaten out of nearly everything she had
because a Yankee soldier came to her and told her he could get Fielding Price out of prison. So she sold everything
to buy him out and got beat out of her money and Fielding was already dead. Therefore there was not even money for salt and they
nearly starved to death before being evicted for non-payment of taxes. She later worked as a cook running a way station while
her oldest son drove a freight wagon.
My great grandfather James Thomas Harper was wounded at Shiloh and was probably one of the almost walking wounded
that was evacuated from Shiloh. He was with the 5th Tenn.
Pearce and Harper fought all over the South and I believe Harper fought at Atlanta because he was wounded there.
My ggg uncle, Lt. Frederick Price, was one of Sterling Price's Lts. and he made the ride north in Nov. of 64 and survived.
My gg grandfather Vaughn had cotton already sitting on the dock waiting for shipment when Little Rock fell in Sept. of 63.
He refused to sign the loyalty pledge at the end because he said the war had cost him too much as his only son had been killed
over a wagon load of salt. Other than that I cannot tell you what happened.
Unfortunately or fortunately, I am a history nut and I did not even tell you all of it.
So I got that verse about 64. I also found it touching.