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Many thanks to Rick and George. Your information provided has been well received by descendants of Private Jordan MVB Womack, from Texas to Idaho. I was only a friend of the Womack family.

Kendall, your relative's similar "Survived Camp Douglas Twice" service record suggests that there may have been many Fort Donelson captives (of the 15,000 or so in February 1862) who had a similar (but perhaps not as rare as I first thought) service record during the Civil War. I wonder how many?

I have one "battle" question. Did the 14th Mississippi Infantry fight in the Battle of Corinth, on October 3 & 4, 1862? I have stood in the middle of the railroad junction in downtown Corinth and at Grant's Tree at Shiloh, but I was reading Grant's personal memoirs back then. It appears to me that the 14th MS was still on the march near Corinth, but had not arrived by the battle. I am still trying to understand how Private Womack survived the war, two imprisonments at Camp Douglas and all the potential battles he was in (14th MS & 34 AL), without apparently receiving a scratch. He later married three times and lived well into the 20th Century.

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