Roy,

Three of my gggg uncles in the 4th Tenn were Martin and Powell Eisenhour (Isenhour), and Abraham Easterly. Martin apparently died of illness only a month before the war ended. The Neese/Nease, and Ottinger familes, are also related to me - there were numerous marriages between members of these four very large familes. For example, the Isenhour boys mother was an Ottinger, and their maternal grandmother a Neas (later 'americanized' to Neese or Nease). The mother-in-law of my ggg grandfather Ireneous Isenhour (who was in the CSA 62nd Tenn, then USA 3rd Mounted infantry and 8th Infantry)was also a Nease. One of the Isenhour boy's aunts married a Nease,who moved to Indiana - one of her sons was in an Indiana regiment. In short, I am probably related by blood to some degree to anyone with one of those four family names, but it may be distant.