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John M. Grissom was in the 1 (Johnston's) Mississippi Infantry. Prior to receiving the war record, I did some checking on-line though and never found anywhere that stated this regiment was at Shiloh. This really had me confused. Once I received his papers that confirmed he WAS in this regiment and that he was indeed 'killed at Shiloh', I called the MS archives and spoke with their civil war expert, do not remember his name, but he asked me some questions about the papers and then what he told me is that since John was on sick furlough prior to Shiloh- that his regiment must have moved on with out him while he was sick. Once he recuperated he joined up with another regiment that headed to Shiloh. I think he said he was probably in one of the hospitals around Corinth, it's been a while since I spoke with him now.
The only other thing in his record is a court document from Itawamba Co.,MS where John's widow and her father request the arrears of pay stating she was now a widow with two small children.
It's not much to go on, so unfortunaely I'll never know what happened to him for sure...