Alan

About all I had on either John or Hamp came from their files in the Compiled Service Records. (The main exception was that John's death at Dandridge is not reflected in the records, I had to rely on a casualty list for Dandridge in the [Columbia] Daily South Carolinian.] I have been unable to identify either one in the voluminous Holcombe Genealogy -- its particulary hard in the indexing system when a first initial is used followed by a Christian name, I've found. From where Hamp lived, around Dacusville, in northeastern Pickens County, its probably only about 50 miles over the mountain to Pigeon Post Office, which I assume was somewhere around present-day Lake Jenaluska, in Haywood County, N.C., so the postwar move was not very long at all. Thnaks for the lead on Hamp. I do not know if he and John were brothers, or how they were related.