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Daniel McArthur

Howdy,

I've been trying to find info about Daniel McArthur (McArther) for the past 10 years. I know he served in the 28th Mississippi Rifles during the Civil War and was wounded and captured at the fall of Vicksburg, 3 Jul 1863. He was interred at the POW camp in Chicago until Aug, 1865, where the life expectancy was less than 4 months. He spent time in the Ft Smith, AR, area after the war, where he married a Cherokee woman. He was from west AL, originally. Family legend has it that…

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Added by Peter Bonkemeyer on June 17, 2011 at 22:01 — 2 Comments

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The more information you can give about the people you mention, the more chance there is of someone else connecting with your family.

Dates and places of births, deaths and marriages all help to place families.

Professions also help.

'My great-grandmother mother was a Douglas from Montrose' does not give many clues to follow up! But a bit of flesh on the bones makes further research possible. But if we are told who she married, what his profession was and where the children were baptised, then we can get to work.

Maybe it is time to update the information in your profile?


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