My wife encouraged me to dig up my pedigree and family lines since we’re getting up in age. Having lost contact with them through the years it’s become a new hobby that’s enjoyable.

I was born and raised in the tri-state Wiregrass area of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia and have relatives from each state that served in Confederate regiments and apparently in at least one instance in the Florida Union Calvary.

My Great-Great Grandfather was Griffin Lambert Pippin Sr. and he was in the 6th Florida (briefly) – he was 58 in 1960. He was married several times and had my Great Grandfather also named Griffin Lambert Pippin Jr. with Leiza Taylor.

On Ancestry.com the civil war military search lists 3 Griffin Pippins (the name isn’t all that common) with my 2G Grandfather in the 6th Florida Infantry and then a Griffin Pippin in the 33d Alabama Infantry - and another in the 1st Florida Cavalry (Union).

I had accepted that my Great Grandfather was in the Union cavalry but as I’m nosing around I found documentation that lists a Sarah Pippin (my Great Grandmother was Sarah Jane Ward) applying for a pension from both Alabama for the 33d and from Florida for the 1st Cavalry. Now, I haven’t been able to get Births and Deaths for the soldier(s) from the military records. My Great Grandfather was born on 20 November 1833, in Lowndes, Georgia and died on 2 March 1889 in Boggy Bayou, Walton County, Florida.

I’m hoping somebody can shed some light on whether my Great Grandfather was actually in the 33’d Alabama – it was recruited from the wiregrass – or whether that is another Griffin Pippin – heck, I might be related to him if so.

Mitchell Lambert Pippin