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[Tilford.FBK]August 3, 1860 - Census lists family living in Mooresville, Itawamba County, Mississippi.
Family 395 - Lewis C. Dorsey, 23, ALA
Agnes, 18, ALA
Jemyma Gardner, 72, SC
14/5/583February 19, 1962 - L.C. Dorsey enlisted in "new" Company C, 10th Mississippi Volunteers from Fulton, Mississippi, for a period of three years. On March 6, 1862, Dorsey appears to have received his $50 bounty for enlisting, but when the company was mustered for pay about June 1862, he was listed as absent and missing since April 24. He had pay due form his enlistment in February. When the company was mustered about December 1862, Dorsey was accounted for as having died of disease at Chattanooga in October 1862. He still had unclaimed pay due from his enlistment date. Records also indicate that he was missing {in action} at Mickey's Ridge on April 24. His rank is listed as Private.
Information reported to the Confederates by Union prison officials give a different accounting. Prison records listed his as having been captured on April 8, 1862, at Pittsburgh Landing and taken a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas, Illinois. He was admitted to the prison hospital with rubella on May 12 and died at Camp Douglas on May 25, 1862. The prison records say, however, that Dorsey was admitted to the hospital on May 27 and that he died on May 25. (An obvious error!)
His widow, Rebecca, made application to the Confederate States to receive his enlistment pay, enlistment bounty, and clothing allowance. on April 16, 1863, she appeared before the Itawamba County, Mississippi, justice of the peace and filed her claim, witnessed by J. T. Clayton, and certified by the court clerk, Eli Phillips, on May 18, 1863. On April 26, 1864, Rebecca Dorsey was awarded $133.23, representing $83.23 for her husband's enlistment pay from February 19 to October, 1862, and $50.00 for bounty and clothing.
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