Keith -

You had asked me where my information came from and I neglected to answer that question. Shortly after I posted my original query about a possible place of burial for my great-grandfather on the Georgia board, Andrew Johnson posted this reply:

Ms Bijou,

“George H. Crawford was shot through the head, but did not expire immediately – he made no complaint and met his fate with calm resignation...He fell in Glazier’s Field near the family grave yard”

Source: William Terrell Millican to Wife, July 11, 1862. Confederate Reminiscences and Letters, Vol. VII, pp. 181-182.

Millican was the first Captain of the Tugalo Blues. By the time he wrote these lines, he was Lt Col Millican, acting commander of the 15th, and the battle was Malvern Hill. He was promoted Colonel in time to be mortally wounded at Sharpsburg.

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George H. Crawford's wife was Jane Independence Terrell and I am trying to find some sort of family ties between William Millican and my great-grandmother. Andrew Johnson has said that Millican did not make a habit of reporting the deaths of his men in his letters to his wife, so I'm sure the two men and their families knew each other at the very least. I was hoping that the Captain might have made a special effort to see that my great-grandfather had a proper burial - maybe even in that "family cemetery" he mentioned.

What do you think?

Thanks again for your help.

Patricia