Table of Contents
(Listen to a banjo & organ rendition of "Dixie" while you read)
Chronology xvii
Abbreviations xx
Part I
From Carolina to the Oconee River: Solomon Mangham Comes to Georgia
PROLOGUE: EARLY DAYS IN VIRGINIA, THE CAROLINAS, AND THE
GEORGIA FRONTIER 15
CHAPTER I: "THE FIRST STATIONS IN PUBLICK SEARVICE": SOLOMON'S
NEPHEW, JAMES C. MANGHAM OF GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA
1. An Orphan Finds His Roots: James C. Mangham and the Family Name 19
2. Standing Watch on the Atlantic Coast: Pvt. William W. Mangham,
"Brunswick Rifles," Styles's 13th (later 26th) Georgia 22
CHAPTER II: MAKING A MARK IN DIXIE: WILLIS A. MANGHAM, WILEY P.
MANGHAM AND THEIR FAMILIES
1. New Land in West Georgia! 25
3. Slaughter at Sharpsburg; Surrender at Appomattox: Capt. John H.
5. A Crushing Burden of Despair: Coming Home from Appomattox and
Andersonville 48
CHAPTER III: "WARM SECESSIONISTS" AND COUNTRY EDITORS: THE
GEORGIA
1. Blazing the Trail in West Georgia: From Pike County to the Chattahoochee
Frontier 101
25th Alabama 105
4. "Just Beyond the River": Reunion in Louisiana 155
CHAPTER IV: MERCHANTS AND THE SOUTHERN MILITIA TRADITION: THE
JOHN C. MANGHAM FAMILY OF SPALDING COUNTY, GEORGIA
1. From Milledgeville to Griffin: John C. Mangham and the Settlement
of West Georgia 177
Mangham, 5th Georgia; 6th Ga. State Guard; 22nd Ga. Heavy Artillery 179
3. Cousins in Arms, or "Colonel, We Are Going to Have Hot Times Just Over
CHAPTER V: "SALT OF THE EARTH": THE JAMES M. MANGHAM FAMILY OF
BUTTS COUNTY, GEORGIA
1. A Yeoman Farmer of Butts County 245
2. Giving Their All in the Old Dominion: Sergeant Wiley P. Mangham and
Pvt. John S. Mangham, 53rd Georgia 246
4. Fighting for a Small Bay Mule & a Cotton Patch: Pvt. William A. Mangham,
14th Alabama 279
CHAPTER VI: FARMERS, TRADESMEN, COWBOYS, AND PROFESSORS:
THE THOMAS MANGHAM & HENRY H. MANGHAM FAMILIES
1. Life on the Southern Frontiers: The Thomas Mangham Family 337
2. Six Feet of Dirt on the Texas Frontier: Pvt. Nathaniel H. Mangham,
1st Texas Mounted Rifles, Mexican War 338
3. Passing the Torch in Chambers County: Jane, John G., and Solomon R.
Mangham 339
4. "Ascape the Thieveing Paws of the Yankes": Pvt. Solomon R. Mangham,
Young's Cavalry, Alabama State Reserves 342
Soldier 352
6. "Our Troops Will Fight as Long as the Enemy Invade Our Soil": Pvt. Willoughby
H. Mangham, 11th Georgia 354
8. From Orphan Boy to Plantation Owner: The Henry H. Mangham Family of
Talbot and Taylor Counties 404
DISCOVERING THE "VANISHED HAND AND THE VOICE THAT IS STILLED":
BASIC RESEARCH TECHNIQUES & YOUR CIVIL WAR ANCESTORS 435
Part II
On the Trail of Uncle Solomon: Joseph Mangum's Descendants Move South
INTRODUCTION 441
CHAPTER VII: THE WILLIAM MANGHAM FAMILY ON THE ALABAMA AND
TEXAS FRONTIERS
1. Plantation Life & Public Service: The William Mangham Family of Russell
County 441
2. With the "Buttermilk Cavalry" in New Mexico: Pvt. Irby P. Mangham, 7th
Texas Cavalry 447
1st Georgia 455
CHAPTER VIII: THERE'S TALL COTTON IN GEORGIA! THE JOSIAH THOMAS
MANGUM FAMILY MOVES TO TALBOT COUNTY
1. "What a Tangled Web We Weave!" The Josiah Thomas Mangum Family 477
2. "Gone to Alabama": The Thomas H. Mangham Family 478
Alabama 479
5. Gone to Texas! 516
6. "Corking the Bottle" at Bermuda Hundred: Pvt. Bush W. Mangham, Hilliard's
Alabama Legion and the 59th Alabama Infantry 517
Rangers 532
CHAPTER IX: WHITE GOLD ON THE RED RIVER: THE ARTHUR G. AND
JAMES G. MANGHAM FAMILIES MOVE WEST AGAIN
1. From Uchee Creek to the Red River Valley: Arthur and Green Mangham
Move West to Louisiana 553
2. "Fighting Like Hell a-Beating Tan Bark": Pvt. Thos. H. Mangham, 19th La. 554
4. After "The Breakup": Lengthening Shadows along the Red River Valley 606
MISSISSIPPI
1. In the Shadows of the Southern Frontier: Ante-bellum Years in Georgia,
Alabama, and Mississippi 621
2. "All Mississippi is in a Fever to Get to the Field": Pvt. John C. Mangham,
10th Mississippi 623
Mangham, 1st Mississippi Light Artillery 628
4. "The Most Southern Place on Earth": Postwar Years in the Yazoo Delta 655
DISCOVERING THE "VANISHED HAND AND THE VOICE THAT IS STILLED":
ADVANCED RESEARCH TECHNIQUES & YOUR CIVIL WAR ANCESTORS
671
Appendix: Mangham Family Genealogy 675
Glossary 709
Bibliography 715
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