Not all Southerners are redecks. Some of us have enough class to remove the Marlboro from our lips before telling the State Trooper to kiss our ass.
Speaking of heritage, I recently received this from my dad about my 3rd Great-Grandfather's military service:
Joseph Samuel Hilburn(GGGGF) and his brother Isom. Joseph served in two different CSA units and survived the war to marry and raise nine children. His brother Isom (also CSA) was wounded & captured at the Battle of Island No 10 (on the Mississippi near the Tenn - Kentucky border), and sent to a POW camp in Wisconsin where he died. Three of Joseph Samuel Hilburn's daughters married three Kendrick boys. The Kendrick boys were cousins to each other...
Cousin,
I was looking on
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Jerry Lou
Hugh Simmons, an expert on the 12th LA Regiment helped me reconstruct the service of my Great, Great Grandfather.
July/August 1861: Henry Van McCain recruited and organized a company of
volunteers mainly drawn from Winn Parish at Montgomery, Louisiana. Self
styled the "Beauregard Fencibles," they enlisted in state service at
Montgomery, traveled to New Orleans by steamboat and then north of Lake
Ponchatrain by railroad to Camp Moore. At Camp Moore, they were
transferred into Confederate service on August 18, 1861 as Company K of the
12th Louisiana Infantry. They went into service as 12 month volunteers.
September 1861 - February 1862:
12th Louisiana stationed at Columbus, Kentucky.
Captain Van McCain and 2nd Lieutenant William F. Howell returned home to
recruit new members for the company. Joseph S. HILBOURN and his brother
Isom C. HILBOURN were enrolled in Confederate service at Montgomery on
February 10, 1862. [Booth's archivists incorrectly transcribed the
abbreviation for Montgomery as Monterey].
March 1862 - May 1862:
Regiment withdrawn initially to Island No. 10 in the Mississippi River near
New Madrid, Missouri on March 1st. At mid-March they were transferred
south to Fort Pillow, Tennessee as the primary infantry support to the
Confederate artillery posted there overlooking the Mississippi River.
Passage of the Confederate Conscription Act in April 1862 required enrolled Confederate military service of all white, male residents. Twelve
month volunteer regiments such as the 12th Louisiana were re-organized and
re-enrolled to serve for three years or the duration of the war. The alpha
designation of Company K was changed to Company D.
Private Isom C. HILBOURN was left behind sick in the hospital at Island No.
10 and was subsequently captured on April 7, 1862. He was sent to Camp
Randall, Wisconsin where he died of disease on May 9, 1862. The site of
Camp Randall now hosts the University of Wisconsin's Randall Stadium. Isom
C. HILBOURN is listed among the Confederates buried in the Confederate Lot
in Forest Hill Cemetery in Madison, Wisconsin.
June 1862 - December 1862:
Fort Pillow was abandoned at the end of May and Memphis lost to the Federal
navy. By early June 1862, the 12th Louisiana Infantry was camped at
Abbeville, Mississippi. They were assigned to Brigadier General John B.
Villepigue's brigade while still at Fort Pillow and came actively under his
control when relocated to northern Mississippi. The Confederate Army of
Tennessee was formed in the summer of 1862 from units in northern
Mississippi and transferred to Chattanooga, Tennessee. The 12th Louisiana
did not become part of this army until May 1864 at the beginning of the
Atlanta Campaign.
Private Joseph S. HILBOURN was noted on the company muster roll covering
May/June 1862 to be "absent sick in Covington, Tennessee." Covington,
Tennessee was the site of a Confederate hospital complex servicing the
units defending the Mississippi River above Memphis. This muster was done
on June 30, 1862 and reflects his status as of that day. The muster roll
covering November/December 1862 states that he was discharged on November
18th [19th in the CMSR] by order of Colonel Boyd. Reason for his discharge
was not stated in the records, but it was for poor health per his own post
war testimony. JSH states that he was at Jackson, Mississippi when the
discharge was given him which indicates that he was still absent in the
Confederate hospital system. The regiment began a retreat from Abbeville
to Grenada on the date that this discharge was granted.
Note: James A. BOYD was Captain of a Caldwell Parish company of the
regiment at its organization at Camp Moore in 1861 and was elected
Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment on May 4, 1862 at Fort Pillow to replace
LTC Wade H. Hough who resigned. Military protocol allows a Lieutenant
Colonel to be addressed as "Colonel." Colonel BOYD resigned his position
on January 5, 1863.
January 1863 - September 1863:
Joseph's post war testimony was that he was at home for a few months and
after regaining his strength, he joined Captain Kidd's cavalry company in
the fall of 1863. He is quite consistent on this point. Captain M. B.
KIDD assumed command of the Jackson Volunteers in the 1st State Battalion
of Louisiana Infantry at the end of July 1863. Captain J. R. Kavanaugh was
in command prior to this and JSH does not ever mention him. Joining
Captain KIDD's company in the fall of 1863 is consistent with the records
of this unit.
Whether they were acting as infantry or were already informally mounted as
cavalry is not clear. Bergeron's Guide states that Clark's Cavalry
Battalion was first organized in March 1863 as part of the Louisiana State
Army. They performed picket duty and chased Jayhawkers during 1863. It is
possible that Captain KIDD's company of the 1st State Battalion of
Louisiana Infantry was mounted by the fall of 1863 and informally
reassigned to Clark's Battalion.
At one point JSH estimates that he got home "about 1863" and was home 4
months before joining the cavalry. You have to read between the lines that
he was trying to avoid explaining why it took him so long to join the
cavalry after returning home. He could have reached home from Jackson,
Mississippi by Christmas 1862 or New Year's Day 1863. Chances are very
high that he was suffering from chronic diarrhea [he was absent sick for
about six months before being discharged] and that isn't easy to recover
from. Many men died from this malady which was a function of poor rations
[vitamin C deficiency] and polluted drinking water. A balanced diet and
clean water usually restored men to more normal health although many never
ever fully recovered from its effects.
The Louisiana State Guard was formed in February 1864 and then transferred
into Confederate service in March 1864. The 1st State Battalion of
Louisiana Infantry was formally dissolved in March 1864, its companies
officially mounted and transferred into the 2nd State Guards Battalion of
Cavalry. Bergeron's Guide was unable to identify the alpha designation of
Captain KIDD's company at this point in time but placed it in the 2nd State
Guards Cavalry. This is possibly another clue that KIDD's company was
actually operating independently or with Clark's battalion.
KIDD's company may have been mounted and operating informally under the
battalion command of Benjamin W. Clark since the fall of 1863. Or JSH's
memory may be faulty on this technical point. Or he may have joined some
other cavalry company and did not transfer into Captain KIDD's command
until sometime in 1864. For the purposes of recounting his service record for posterity, I would assume that he joined Captain KIDD's company
[mounted infantry or cavalry] in the fall of 1863 as he said and follow its
history. Major Clark was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and command of the
1st State Guards Battalion of Cavalry in February 1864. The two cavalry
battalions were consolidated to form the 8th Louisiana Cavalry Regiment at
the end of October 1864. Captain M. B. KIDD's company is identified as
Company E of the 8th Louisiana Cavalry.
Bergeron's Guide states "Confederate authorities may have dismounted
the regiment late in the war. The regiment appears to have been near
Natchitoches or Mansfield at the surrender in May 1865."
Joseph’s brother, Isom/Isham Hilburn, contracted Typhoid, was captured by the Union Forces in Tennessee and sent to a Union Hospital at Camp Randall, Wisconsin where he died and is buried in a section of Confederate Soldiers.
His comrades were Joe Roper, Miles Roper, and Jim Curry who were from Montgomery, LA Jack Sykes and B. Howell were two other comrades who were from Vernon, LA. Joseph Hilburn was camping on the Red River near Campti, LA at the surrender.
Sometime early in 1865, he married Sarah Wilson from Winn Parish, LA. Sarah’s two half brothers, Jackson Williams and James B. Williams also served in the 12th LA regiment. He and Sarah had nine children one of them being my great grandmother, Mesie Hilburn. Joseph was a farmer his whole life.
Comrades:
Roper, Joseph, Pvt. Sergt. Co. D, 12th La. Inf. En. Aug. 18, 1861, Camp Moore, La. Present on
Roll to Oct. 31, 1861. Roll May and June, 1862, Died May 5 at Fort Pillow of typhoid fever.
Roper, Miles, Pvt. Co. D, 12th La. Inf. En. Aug. 18, 1861, Camp Moore, La. Present on Rolls to
Oct. 31, 1861. Roll May and June, 1862, Present, with remarks: On detached service guarding a
bridge on Miss.
Curry, James D., Pvt. Co. D. 12th La. Infty. En. Feb. 10th, 1862, Montgomery, Ala. Roll for May
and June, 1862, Died May 8th at Fort Pillow of typhoid fever
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Merci 