According to family history, Jesse Baker fought alongside his father, John, and half-brother Lewis Griffie Thornton with Fristoe’s Regiment, Freeman’s Brigade, Captain Meadow’s company during the War of Northern Aggression. Jesse is listed as a private in Company F, under the command of Captain S. M. Elliott and Captain David C. Meadows. Fristoe’s Regiment was […]
Day: May 3, 2021
James Nicolas MortonJames Nicolas Morton
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James Nicolas Morton was born in Montgomery, Virginia. He migrated to Holmes County, Mississippi in the 1840’s with his father and siblings. He entered service with the Mississippi Sharpshooters where he remained till the end of the war. He married in 1871 and migrated to Milam County, Texas in 1879. He had 9 children before […]
Green MasseyGreen Massey
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Green Massey was born on March 6, 1843. He joined the 27th Georgia Infantry Regiment on September 9, 1861, in Georgia when he was 18 years old. He fought in the Battle of Seven Pines VA where he was wounded. He married Joanah C Hill in Macon, Georgia, on December 30, 1865. They had 8 […]