28th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, United States Civil War

Question

I would like to find more information about this Missing Regiment (notice the gap between 27th - 29th in sources) is there any good online sources? 

We know Confederate Civil War veteran James M. Ware was captured during the battle of “Missionary Ridge” and we have his records showing the “28th” and that he was a 2nd Lt. It would be nice to see what happened to him during the civil war.

see:https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:28th_Regiment%2C_Mississippi_Infantry%2C_United_States_Civil_War

It’s says US_CIVIL_WAR.

28th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry was listed as part of the Fourth Brigade of Confederate Troops at Corinth.

Also his civil war duty mentioned in daughters bio Ama Parmelia (Ware) Depriest (1855 - 1942): https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ware-381

Excerpt “ Miss Ama Ware's father and brother were soldiers in the confederate army. While serving as a soldier her father developed measles and was very ill and was sent home. While he was on this furlough, a messenger was sent to Martins Bluff to warn the people the Yankees were coming.“

1. Need son Dorman Ware’s obituary. He was mentioned in the 1904 obit of his son Dorman, as still living, and he was in the 1910 (Vancleave post office) Jackson Co MS census with 2nd wife Sarah Goff Ware.

2. New update revealing it was the 28th Alabama see his ancestry record with ditto marks for James Merida Ware

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Not finding anything on this unit in web searches. I searched newspapers.com as well and the only 28th Mississippi that is talked about in articles is the cavalry.

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Definitely a gap between 27th - 29th

I do see the 28th cavalry Listed

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With some help in G2g and the civil war records for James M. Ware it appears he was in the 28th Alabama. The ditto marks and reading his record is where we need help. We know his father was probably born in Alabama per 1880 census. We need to properly categorize his profile. Any help in researching the 28th Alabama would be helpful

Answer 1

I was looking at the US Civil War Prisoner of War Records 1861-1865. James M Ware 2nd (Lt.) captured at Missionary Ridge was with the 28th Alabama Infantry. Those were ditto marks under Ala Inf. Company G. etc.

Name:	James M Ware
Side:	Confederate
Roll:	M598_81
Roll Title:	Selected Records of the War Department Relating to Confederate Prisoners of War, 1861-1865

Ancestry.com. U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. 

So there probably wasn't a 28th Mississippi Infantry. At least, I haven't found one yet either. He probably wasn't with the 28th Alabama Infantry and the enumerator might have been a little sloppy with recording his detachment. There are a lot of ifs and probablys in his biography. Identifying the right "James M Ware" from all other "James Wares" is going to be very tricky.

I'd go back and try and track him from the beginning and follow contemporaneous individuals with whom he'd be associated. I'll double back on the records, too.

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I believe your correct! I found the Alabama info to match also.  I need help updating his profile to reflect this. See https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=02801CDD-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A

His 1880census shows fathers birth as Alabama

Name: James Ware
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1880
Event Place: Ocean Springs, Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 50
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Race (Original): W
Occupation: Coalburner
Relationship to Head of Household: Self
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Self
Birth Year (Estimated): 1830
Birthplace: Mississippi, United States
Father's Birthplace: Alabama, United States
Mother's Birthplace: Georgia, United States
Sheet Letter: C
Sheet Number: 526
Person Number: 0
Volume: 1

 

Household	Role	Sex	Age	Birthplace
James Ware	Self	M	50	Mississippi, United States
Sarah Ware	Wife	F	45	Mississippi, United States
Salema Ware	Daughter	F	18	Mississippi, United States
Thomas R Tucker	Stepson	M	12	Mississippi, United States
T J Ware	Son	M	4	Mississippi, United States
Ware	Son	M	2	Mississippi, United States
Amanda Pierson	Mother-in-law	F	64	Mississippi, United States

District: ED 144
Sheet Number and Letter: 526C
Household ID: 12873350
Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
Affiliate Publication Number: T9
Affiliate Film Number: 0650
GS Film Number: 1254650
Digital Folder Number: 005161080
Image Number: 00678
 

Citing this Record
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4G6-X73 : 12 August 2017), Amanda Pierson in household of James Ware, Ocean Springs, Jackson, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district ED 144, sheet 526C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,254,650.

Answer 2

Where do you find him in this unit? (do you have a specific link?"

When I search NPS, it says "28th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit."

I can't find it in the list at Wikipedia either.

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U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/14430264?h=98c996 U.S.,

See line #933 record Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865 https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/14430269?h=e7e7e8 U.S., Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865. Also line 958 shows another soldier in the 28th company H?

James Ware lived in Mississippi in 1833.https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/14430303?h=a04019 U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900

Best I’ve found so far and the daughters bio by the historian mentions him sick with measles in civil war.

Records show James M. Ware. The rank 2nd and the 28th doesn’t say cavalry or infantry. Also shows “Missionary Ridge” capture on the name above his name and his part is in quotation marks for his name

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Here is the history of the Unit source 

https://archive.org/details/confederateveter25conf

Confederate Troops at Corinth, Confederate Veteran, Volume 25, Issue 10, 1917, page 445.

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/serial?id=confedvet

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Will have to look into Battle of Missionary Ridge to see which confederate regiments participated. If indeed the 28th cavalry or infantry participated. Need a source for this though

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The records seem to point to the 28th Alabama. See under ditto marks on shared ancestry record link for James Merida Ware

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I think we have found the correct James M. Ware here 

https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=02801CDD-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A

Answer 3

Are you sure he was in the Infantry? On Fold3 there is no listing for the 28th Infantry but there is a Mississippi 28th Cavalry. Could he have been in the "28th" of a nearby state rather than Mississippi? A Google search, which I am sure you have tried, also does not show a 28th Mississippi Infantry.

There are quite a few James Ware's on Fold3 in the Civil War so one of those might be your guy but they are all listed in other regiments.

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His son in law John William Depriest was in the Calvary so possibly James M aware was in 28th Mississippi Valvary?

James M. Ware’s son was a young teenage boy in the confederate navy. See him here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Ware-2463   

He is mentioned in his daughter Ama’s bio (the wife of John William Depriest) as having measles and on furlough by the historian

See John William Depriest here: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Depriest-280

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With some help from g2g it’s showing James Merida Ware was in the 28th Alabama. See under ditto marks on shared ancestry record link. His father was born in Alabama per 1880 census. Ay help categorizing better to reflect his proper civil war military service is appreciated.

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I think we found the correct James M. Ware here https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=02801CDD-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A