Hugh Toland Stephens

In 1860 he was 13 years old and lived on his mother and step father Lewis Merchant's farm at Crawfordville in Lowndes County, MS. At age 17 he enlisted at West Point, MS as a Private in the Company which became Company L, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 12 May 1862. He and the Company joined the Battalion just before Manassas on 29 August 1862.

He was left "sick on the march from Frederick City, Md" and captured on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was sent to Aiken's Landing, VA. He was in hospitals in Richmond and Farmville, VA, declared exchanged on 10 November, and returned to duty on 8 September 1862. He was wounded (accidentally?) by a gunshot to his hand at Chancellorsville, VA on 5 May 1863, was in hospitals in Richmond and Lynchburg, VA, and returned to duty by the end of 1863. He was listed as absent without leave after 4 May 1864, but was captured again, on 21 July 1864 at Winchester, VA, was in the Athenaeum Prison at Wheeling, WV, and sent to Camp Chase, OH on 6 October 1864.

He enlisted there for US Service on 20 March 1865 and was sent to Chicago, IL with no later military record.

In 1870 he was a farmer on step-father's place at Starkville in Oktibbeha County, MS but by 1880 he was farming his own place in Clay County, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. He's not found in the US Army Registers of Enlistments. Personal details from family genealogists, also as Hugh Tolen Stephens, and the US Census of 1860-1880.

He married Margaret Basinger (1852-) in November 1872 and they had 3 children by 1880.

c. 1845 in MO