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Lt. Pleasant M. Parker
(Pleasant Madison "P. M." Parker married his step aunt, Rachel
Phillips, since she is the sister of Nancy Phillips. Nancy is the step mother of Pleasant M. Parker. Nancy is the
wife of John R. Parker - father of Pleasant M. Meanwhile, their brother William Phillips (Phillips, William ) married Nancy Parker (Parker, Nancy ), daughter of Solomon Parker (Parker, Solomon). Solomon is the brother of John R. Parker. Pleasant M. "PM" Parker, is not to be confused
with his uncle, Pleasant)
Pleasant Madison Parker is recorded on
muster records for Company G, 62nd North Carolina Infantry (Regiment) - Jackson County - Captain,
A.D. Hooper; D.F Brown, First Lieutenant; B.N. Queen; Second Lieutenant, Pleasant M. Parker.
Walter Clark's Regiments: An Extended Index to the Histories of the Several
Regiments and Battalions from North
Carolina in the Great War 1861-1865: By Charles C. Davis: Page 345, Parker, M. Pleasant, IV: 701 and
Parker, P. M., (2nd Lt, Co G, 62nd NCST), III: 516.
According to North Carolina Troops 1861-1865 A Roster, by Weymouth
T. Jordan, Jr., Vol. XV Infantry, 62NC, 64th, 66th, 67th, 68th Regiments, Raleigh North Carolina Office of Archives and History
dated 2003, page 101, it has the following list of events for Pleasant M. Parker (born
1829): "Parker, Pleasant M., 3rd Lieutenant"; "Enlisted in Jackson County at age 33; Appointed 3rd Lieutenant
on July 14, 1862; Reported present and accounted for through June 30, 1863; Captured at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, September 9, 1863; Transported to Louisville, Kentucky; Confined at Johnson's Island, Ohio, September 25, 1863; Transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland, March 21, 1865; Confined at Fort Delaware, Delaware, April 28, 1865.
Released at Fort Delaware on June 12, 1865, after taking the Oath of Allegiance."
P. M. Parker was also a minister.
Name: Pleasant Madison "Pless" Parker Gender: Male Birth: ABT
1829 in Haywood Co., N.C. Death: 28 DEC 1885 Jackson Co., N.C. Burial: Balsam Grove
Baptist cemetery, Caney Fork, Jackson Co., N.C. Event: Fact, 16 APR 1862 Confederate Conscription Act
Birth: ABT 19 AUG.1829 Haywood Co., N.C. Death: 28 DEC 1885 Jackson Co., N.C.
Family:
Marriage: 24 MAR 1851 in Haywood Co., N.C.
Spouse:
Birth:
11 APR 1832 Haywood Co., N.C. Death: 31 JUL 1903 Jackson
Co., N.C.
Buried:
AFT 31 JUL1903
Balsam
Grove Baptist Cemetery
Caney
Fork Jackson Co N.C.
Gender: Female Parents:
Birth: ABT 1791 in S.C.
Children:
Parker, John Nelson (Married his second cousin - Martha Jane Parker - Parker, Martha Jane) Parker, Catherine Ruth Parker, Mary Haseltine Parker, Henry M. Birth: 17 SEP 1860 Jackson Co., N.C. Death:
29 MAY 1875 Jackson Co., N.C. Gender: Male Parker, William Matt Parker, Daniel Lewis Parker, Thomas Herschel Parker, Samuel L. Parker, Rosa Lee Parker, Benjamin Columbus
Camp Douglas, the North's Andersonville
The records reflect at least 442 men of the 62nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment were prisoners at Camp Douglas.
At least 4275 Confederate Soldiers died during their internment at Camp Douglas... Some estimates place the death toll over
6,000. More Confederate Soldiers died at Camp Douglas than at any Union Prisoner of War Camp.
Civil War Muster Records:
Parker, Pleasant; Parker, Plasan M.; and Parker, Pleasant M. He is recorded in Ezekiel A. Brown's diary of the 62nd North
Carolina Infantry Regiment, B. G. McDowell's diary, and muster records of the 62nd North Carolina Regiment, and numerous Official
Civil War records and documents.
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