Maternal Geneology

[1.] Served during WWII in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown CV-10 

[2.] John fought and died in the Civil War. He joined the Confederate Army and enlisted in Wade Hampton's Legion, Rifles, SC. The unit was later consolidated into the 1st South Carolina Infantry, Butler's. He was in F Company. HE ENLISTED 2 JAN 1862 NASHVILLE, TN CONF. CARD #49339464, He went missing in action in between February 28, 1862 and April 30, 1862. It appears he died fighting in the Peninsula Campaign (also known as the Peninsular Campaign) of the American Civil War was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March through July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater. The operation, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, was an amphibious turning movement intended to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond by circumventing the Confederate States Army in Northern Virginia. McClellan was initially successful against the equally cautious General Joseph E. Johnston, but the emergence of the aggressive General Robert E. Lee turned the subsequent Seven Days Battles into a humiliating Union defeat. His family received a certificate of his discharge. He obviously did not desert, or he would have been declared a deserter. He was either killed in action and not found or was destroyed by cannon-fired explosives. His discharge form indicates he may have been victim of cannon fire. His wife lived on until 1889. The 1880 Federal Census shows her living alone with her children still in Anderson, S.C.