Jim Martin
Re: Poarch Creeks
Mon Jul 23 10:36:39 2001


I suppose you've seen this:

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/dbreez9913/Secondwebpage1.html

A number of men from the local Indian settlements served in the Confederate Army. The most prominent of these in terms of the Poarch group's history may be Richard McGhee, son of Richard McGhee, who later played a leadership role in a timber trespass suit (after 1900) and the formation of a Sunday school at Head of Perdido in 1891. McGhee, wounded in the war, evidently received a pension the rest of his life. Among the others from the local Indian families who served were Richard Rolin, Lynn McGhee (a grandson of the original Lynn), James L. McGhee, William W. Adams, William M. Deas, William Gibson, William Colbert, John Hinson and Adam Hollinger. There were a few troop movements through the area during the war, mostly towards the last year or two. There is some reflection of this in oral history. One Union movement was along the rail line through Williams Station.