While at a lunch counter in Colorado I sat across from a truck driver. The subject of the WBTS came up LOL wonder who started that conversation?

An older truck driver said he had an ancestor who fought for the Union and was buried in Missouri. See Find A Grave Memorial # 10504418

I told him I might have access to some of his Compiled Military Service Records and the truck driver said yes please tell me about him as I know little but have visited his grave.

I told him he does have a Union tombstone but in fact he was a Confederate and not a Yankee. His name was Sergeant Wright S. Miller Company B of the 43rd Tennessee Infantry and he surrendered at the end of the war. This unit was also known as the 5th East Tennessee Volunteers. Shared with him were entries at Fold 3. He looked at his parole at Vicksburg which carried his name and said he has the same hand writing as mine.

Looking at tombstone applications we tired to find out who was responsible for the error. It was Jim Miller who was the truck drivers grandfather. LOL The incorrect tombstone had been ordered in 1940. And it noted a pension record could not be found. LOL I guess not, because he was a Confederate soldier.

I advised him that the 43rd Tennessee mounted Infantry was an escort for President Davis into Georgia.

So long story short another Confederate soldier found and from the way the truck driver was acting a potential new SCV member.