J. W. Blye (whose name is variously given also as Blythe and Blaine) enlisted in Company E of the Hampton Legion Mounted Infantry at Columbia, S.C. on 18 May 64; the unit had previously been the infantry of the Legion. He is present on the Sep-Dec 64 muster rolls (the only ones existant for the Legion in 1864), but I have been able to deduce that he was present through the year. At 2nd Darbytown Road on 13 Oct 64, after a Federal sharpshooter wounded Major Benjamin E. Nicholson of the Legion, Blye killed the sharpshooter. Upon the fall fo Richmond, Gary's cavalry brigade formed the rear guard out of Richmond, and Blye, Elijah T. Tollison, and John P. Rice, all members of Company E -together with several other unnamed men fo the Legion -- were cut off from the main body, probably near Amelia Court House, but they escaped south via Danville and made their way back to South Carolina. En route, they stopped at the home of a farmer, who at first refused to allow Blye eat with the others in his home, believing Blye to be an African American. Tollison wrote of the snub in his postwar Reminiscences which are at the Georgia Archives (and a slightly different version at the Army Hoistorical Center at Carlisle); the men vouched to the farmer that Blye was an Indian. Tollison spells his name Blaine. The postwar South Carolina Volunteers in Confederate Service, prepared for the State pensions (commonly called the Memory Rolls), spells his name Blythe, has the notation on the company roll "An Indian and a good soldier." Benjamin H. Teague, one of the historian of the Legion, and himself a member, recites the story of Blye shooting the shaprshooter, and states that Blye was a Cherokee; both Teague and the Memory Roll give North Carolina as his place of residence. I have been unable to identify him on any Cherokee rolls to which I have access. Can anyone help me on this. Incidentally, Company E was a Greenville District, S.C. company.