Forgive my rudimentary map-making skills. I have tried my best to duplicate a map that appears in I believe Volume 7 of the Grant Papers. The map shows the area and towns over which Union and Confederate forces battled vigorously in the fall of 1862. It would be then that my own ancestors, slaves on the Hull plantation in Salem, MS, would have come into contact with the Union lines that would make possible their removal to Memphis.
Other towns mentioned in the volume but not included on this map include: Lumpkins' Mills, Yoknapatafa, Wyatt, Saulsbury, Pott's Farm, and New Albany. Slaves living in or within 5 to 10 miles of these towns could likely successfully plan an escape. Anyone whose family is known to have been in this area of Marshall County would do well to check the Register of Freedmen, Roll 4, M1914, RG 105 (Pre-bureau Records) at the National Archives for possible inclusion of family members. Name, owner, county, and age are provided in the register.
