My great, great, grandfather, William Daniel Storment, was a 2nd Lieut. in the 32nd MS Beauregard Rifles, enlisting in March 1862. I am lucky enough to have had passed down to me: a tin type picture of him at age 19 in his civil war uniform, a tobacco pouch and a miniature Presbyterian Psalms and Hymnbook he carried with him during his Civil War service. I have a picture of him as an old man wearing a Southern Cross of Honor. I also have this writing by his son about his service:

Tishomingo, Miss.

Wm Daniel Storment enlisted in the confederate service just before the battle of Shiloh. As a new recruit, he did not take part in the battle. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company "H" (Capt. James Tankersley) in the thirty second Mississippi Regiment (Col. Mark P. Lowrey). After Col. Lowrey was promoted to the rank of Bigadier General, Col W.H.H. Tyson commanded the Regiment.

Lieut. Storment's first experience under fire was at the Battle of Perryville in Kentucky, where he is said to have used forty rounds of ammunition. He received his first would in a battle somewhere in Kentucky or Tennessee.

Sometime after the Battle of Chicamauga, the Thirty Second Mississippi Regiment was consolidated with the Twenty Sixth Mississippi Regiment. About that time Lieut. Storment, as the only commissioned officer remaining, became the actual commander of his company, though he never received his commission as Captain.

At the battle of Atlanta Lieut.Storment received his second wound, which incapacitated him for further service. He spent the remainder of the year 1864 in a hospital in Selma, Alabama.

Written from memory by his son, Rev. John David Storment, Sept. 19, 1939

From records about the battle of Atlanta, July 22, 1864 - The Thirty-second had to cross a miry glade and advance through a brigade that had been repulsed, but, Lowrey wrote: "The Thirty-second Mississippi rushed forward almost to the works, when one-third of the command fell at one volley and two color bearers were killed in quick succession." Lowrey declared he never saw a greater display of gallantry than the charge of the brigade; they failed because a thin line of exhausted men cannot take breastworks held by twice their numbers. The regimental casualties were 18 killed, 45 wounded, 23 missing."
Company H--Second Lieutenant W. D. Storment, wounded

Records say Lieut. Storment was sent to the Floyd House Hospital in Macon Ga. He was shot in his upper 3rd of his right arm. My grandmother said he was bothered by it the rest of his life.

Storment's muster roll records show that he is commanding his company beginning in May 1863 and still is in April of 1864. No bimonthy record after that, until he is wounded.

Records show that Captain J. H. Tankersley, Co. "H" is Absent Nov/Dec 1862 captured at Bardstown, paroled and sent to Chattanooga, for exchange. He is present Jan-May 15, 1863, and then absent again, detached on conscript and recruiting in Miss., until he is captured by the enemy in Tishomingo County, Mississippi, his home county, on Jan. 23, 1864. Tankersley is absent until at least after the battle of Atlanta.

So yes I think my ancestor, Lieut. Storment should have been promoted to Captain! Actually Tankersley was related to Storment's wife. What, if any, were the rules about commanding a company and promotion?

Rebecca Moss