Reclaim Alabama

MERIDIAN CAMPAIGN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meridian_campaign

from the June 30, 1864 Chicago Tribune: "Loring has been identified with the Army of the Mississippi for some time, and at Champion's Hill experienced the delectable sensation of being cut off from the rest of his command, and only saved himself by rare exhibitions of pedestrianship on the part of his troops. Loring took part in the evacuatory operations of Polk's army during the Sherman raid to Meridian, Mississippi. He will now have a rare chance to perfect himself in the favorite practice of discreet Generalship." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wing_Loring

Meridian's CIVIL WAR TRAIL https://www.visitmeridian.com/explore/historic-trail-markers/civil-war/

Sherman's 1864 Raid on Meridian, Mississippi

from the March 19, 1964 Chicago Tribune

WHITFIELD'S OF GAINESWOOD & DEMOPOLIS http://www.bmgen.com/document/pdf/History_Whitfield_Bryan_Smith_Vol_I.pdf

The house on the place at the time of the sale, two stories in height and formed of
hewn logs, was made the nucleus of a better structure. As the work progressed a
friend remarked that the old structure would rot and so ruin the whole. The master
of Gaineswood caused the old logs to be replaced. It was wittily remarked that
General Whitfield built the new house over the old one which he threw out the
window.32
Children:
1. Sarah Watkins Whitfield; b. 1819, d. 1822.
2. Winifred B. Whitfield; b. 1821, d. 1822.
3. Nathan Bryan Whitfield; b. 1824, drowned 1832.
(269) 4. Mary Elizabeth Whitfield; b. April 5, 1825, at. Demopolis,
d. Jan. 2, 1859, in Mobile, Ala. She married William Wiltshire
Whitfield (278). She was buried in Mississippi.
(260) 5. Bryan Watkins Whitfield.
6. Needham George Whitfield; 13. Aug. 21, 1830 d. Feb. 18, 1884.
He enlisted in the Marengo Rifles, the first company to leave Demopolis,
Ala. in the service of the Confederacy. He was an honor graduate of the
University of North Carolina, 1849. and a law student in Cumberland
University Lebanon, Tenn., however, he never practiced law. Unmd.
7. Edith Winifred Whitfield; b. 1832, d. 1842.
(261) 8. Nathan Bryan Whitfield.
9. James Bryan Whitfield; b. 1837, d. 1842.
10. Sarah Elizabeth Whitfield; b. 1889, d. 1842.
(262) 11. Edith James Whitfield.
(263) 12. Bessie Winifred Whitfield; b. Nov. 24 1843; m. Francis Eugene Whitfield
(234). John Bryan Williams in his notes calls her Betsy an gives her
birth as Nov. 29 1843. Theodore Whitfield (229) who knew her and
visited her in 1889 in her home called her Bessie. She was living in
Demopolis, in 1929.
Second marriage
(264) 13. Natalie Ashe Whitfield.
32. Gaineswood like many other fine homesteads suffered in the War for Southern
Independence. In these days it was impossible to carry on in the earlier style, but
later, 1896, it was bought by Edith James Whitfield and restored to its former
beauty. During the war it was the headquarters of Gen. Leonidas Polk, C. S. A.,
when he and his staff were guests of Gen. Whitfield.
Data concerning children based on records of Bryan Watkins Whitfield (260).
(72) GEORGE WHITFIELD (Bryan, William, Willia