18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment 1861 1865 CSA Civil War Flag Bearer Winstead

Description: The Flag Bearer: A Winstead Family Account 1861-1865 Harold C. Fisher 2010 self-published 309 pages plus rosters Illustrated hardcover with jacket - black and white illustrations Signed and inscribed by author _____________________________________________________________ Sketches of known histories of the Griffith, Barksdale and Humphries Brigades – 18th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia On April 27, 1861, a great crowd of Yazoo County Mississippi citizens gathered at the town of Benton. It was the occasion of the enlistment of 435 young men into the Mississippi State Armed Forces. At Appomattox four years later, 15 of these men were paroled. The balance were killed, wounded, captured or missing. The names of all these men, by category, can be found at the rear section of this book… John Winstead was born on August 27, 1842, in Yazoo County, Mississippi. His father was Samuel Winstead, Sr., who was born in Tennessee. We know nothing further about his origin is despite having researched the matter for over 60 years. Samuel Winstead Sr., Was born about 1819 and he first appeared in Yazoo County about 1837. And it was here that he met and married the mother of his children Frances Ann Smith, born in 1820 North Carolina. Additional geological material can be found at the end of this narrative. The two other soldiers that are covered by this account, brothers of John Winstead. They were Samuel James Winstead, born October 20, 1844 and Charles Marshall Winstead, born April 9, 1847. Thus when the war began April 1861, John was 18 years of age, Samuel James was 16, and Charles Marshall was 14…

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