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- Occupation: Farmer
Born 1831. Buried Plainview AR. Captured at Triune TN 12/27/1862 and sent to Camp Douglas IL. Paroled 3/30/1863 and rejoined unit.
CIVIL WAR DUTY
Mustered into: Co F, 33rd Reg'd Mississippi Infantry (Confederate)*
Later known as: Company F, 3rd Batallion Mississippi Infantry
Later Known as: Co F, 45th Regiment Mississippi Infantry (Confederate)
Enlisted: Feb 28, 1862 in New Orleans through Oct 1862
Period: 12 months
Rank: Private
Name: Franklin Messer-Mercer Rank: Private Company: F
3rd BN, 45th Regt, Co. 'F', also known as 33rd Inf. Under Maj. Hardcastle.Captured at Triune the day before Battle of Stones River.
Contact Name: Joe Mercer
http://www.militaryhistoryonline.com/genealogy/ancestorcomments.aspx?id=3405&state=Mississippi&type=4&rid=2283#a
PRISONER OF WAR
Captured: 27 Dec 1862
Place: Listed as missing on 16 Jan 1863 after the Battle of Murphreesboro, Tenn, 31 Dec 1862
Prison: Camp Douglas, Ill.
Paroled: March 30, 1863 at Camp Douglas, Ill
Delivered to: City Point, Va. April 4, 1863
Reincorporated: Co. F 45th Mississippi Infantry
Muster Roll: March & April 1863 - Present
Rank: Private
Last Muster Roll: March & April 1864 - Present.
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*This company subsequently became Company F, 3rd Batallion Mississippi Infantry.
The 3rd Battalion Mississippi Infantry was formed about November 1861 of seven unattached companies and by the addition of Captain Chariton's Independent Company, Mississippi Infantry, and two companies formed of that part of the 27th Regiment Alabama Infantry which was not captured at Fort Donelson, the batallion was increased to a regiment in April 1862 and called the 33rd Regiment Mississippi Infantry, which designation was changed to the 45th Regiment Mississippin Infantry in November 1862. The men composing the two companies formed of the 37th Regiment Alabama Infantry were transferred back to that Regiment by S. O. No. 49, Headquarters Department No. 2, dated November 29, 1862, and this organization was ordered to resume its original designation as the 3rd Batallion Mississippi Infantry by letter from the A. & I. G. O. to General J. E. Johnston, dated April 9, 1864.
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1860 Census of Tippah County, Mississippi
860 Frank Eli Messer 28 M Farm ———/900 Tenn.
Amanda 24 F Ala.
Andrew M. 7/12 M Miss.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mstippah/1860-m.html
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1870 Census of Tippah County, Mississippi
F. Messer 38 M Farmer 500/400 TN.
Mandy 35 F Keeps Hse. AL.
A.M. 11 M MS.
M. 8 F MS.
Hanes 4 M MS.
Jas. 2 M MS.
Wm. 3/12 M MS.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mstippah/1870/1870RipleyM.htm
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