“Deserted Aug. 22, 1862” [was he one of many who went home for crop harvest?] [July+Aug.,1862], |
then “Joined from desertion, Nov. 11, 1862” and then “Slightly wounded in Battle of Murfreesboro” |
[Nov.+Dec.1862 card]. In the Confederate Heartland Offensive, under Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford |
Forrest [from Giles County, Tennessee]; the first battle of Murfreesboro was July 13, 1862 [Gn-10]; |
the next battle near Murfreesboro, Dec. 31, 1862 to Jan. 2, 1863, was also known as “Stones River” |
[Gn-10], and an eyewitness account can be found in an article in The Confederate Veteran [Ms-15]. |
Alpheus was marked “Present” on the next two cards, [Jan.+Feb.,1863], and [Mar.+Apr.,1863]. |
The last two muster cards in his file give more information, “Wounded in the side” … “during the |
operations before Murfreesboro, Tenn., Dec. 28, 1862, to Jan. 4, 1863”, and, regarding the desertion, |
under Remarks, “Furlough expired 24th June” [1862]. There is nothing in the file about his death. |
According to the local newspaper, The People’s Press, both Asbery and Alpheus died during the War. |
May 1866 issues: “DeSoto’s Dead, in this number of the Press. We have commenced the publication |
of the names of the DeSoto's brave sons, who surrendered up their lives in the late war” [Note Ms-7]: |
“A. B. McAninch Co. I. 29th Mississippi Regiment” [Asberry] |
and “A. McAninch Co. I. 29th Mississippi Regiment” [Alpheus] |
Before the War, Alpheus married Rebecca Nipper (b.ca.1843, Mississippi, d.bef.1866), daughter |
of William Nipper (1817-1845) and Eliza White (b.ca.1818, Alabama), and grand-daughter of |
Jordan Nipper (b.ca.1794, Virginia, d.bef.1866) and Jane Snodgrass Nipper (b.ca.1796, Tennessee). |
Alpheus and Rebecca had a daughter, Melissa, born ca.1861. After the War, on 23 Jan. 1867, |
[grand-mother] “Jane Nipper and John S. Jones [appointed] ... Guardian to Nancy D. Nipper, Eliza |
Nipper, Melissa McAninch, minor heirs of Alpheus McAninch and William Nipper ” [Note Ms-8]. |
“Melissa McAninch orphan” is also listed on the Soldiers Relief Fund petition in 1867 [Note Ms-9]. |
In 1870, Jane Nipper is in Lawrenceburg, Lawrence Co., Tenn., age 74 [born 1795-1796, in Tenn.], |
with only Melissa McAninch, age 9 (b.Miss.), but no-one else (no husband, and no Nipper children); |
Isaac Nipper, age 50 (another son of Jordan and Jane Nipper), and his family are nearby [Ms-10]. |
[this paragraph was re-written with new Nipper information, September 2007 /Frank McAninch] |
Mississippi 29th Infantry (Erastus G. McAninch) |
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Erastus George McAninch was born 20 Oct. 1843, Elm Grove, DeSoto Co. (now Tate Co.), Miss., |
the third son of William and Maria (Starr) McAninch, and younger brother of Asbery and Alpheus. |
On May 10, 1862, age 18, Erastus enlisted as a Private in Co. I, 29th Miss. Vols., at Corinth, Miss. |
[Muster Cards, Ms-5]; his first card, “May + June, 1862”, confirms date and place of enlistment, for |
“3 yrs or war”, by E. C. Walthal, and Remarks “Absent sick at Enterprise Hospital” [his brother |
Asbery had just died, and Alpheus was serving “as Nurse at Enterprise Hospital” at this same time]. |
The “July+Aug. 1862” cards show Erastus “Present” [although brother Alpheus was not present]. |
Erastus is reported “Sick at Glasgow, Ky., [absent] by order of Reg’t. Surgeon, Sept. 13, 1862” |
[Sept.+Oct. 1862], and then “Absent, Paroled since Sept. 13, 1863” [Nov.+Dec. 1862]. |
Somewhere during this time, Erastus may have been captured [in Kentucky?]; his name appears on a |
list “Received Nov. 13, 1862, from Capt. H. S. Davis, U. S. A., … [192] paroled Prisoners of War”. |
In the Confederate Heartland Offensive, under Gen. Braxton Bragg, the Army of the Mississippi was |
in battle at Perryville, Boyle County, Kentucky, October 8, 1862 [Note Gn-10]; was Erastus there? |
The next muster card shows “Reported as deserted Jan. 21, 1863” [Jan.+Feb. 1863], then “Joined |
from desertion, Mar. 17, 1863 (Forfeits pay from Feb. 25 /63 to Mar. 29 /63” [Mar.+April 1863]. |
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