Bret: Many years ago in my travels I stayed at the Eisenhour Motel or Eisenhower (as in General) in Newport, Cocke Co. prob a distant relative? I married a young lady from that town, and her G-mother had a great diary her father kept during the Vicksburg campaign. He was in the 31st TN and was paroled at Vicksburg.
BTW thanks for e-mail detail re 11th MS cav. Great reading.