Retired from twenty-two years in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1990. Retired as programmer of CNC workcenters in 2004 and moved to beautiful East Tennessee. Author of two novels, "A Quickening Spirit" (partially an homage to Find A Grave) and "Life & Times of a Private Dick" (both available on Amazon.)

I am a descendant of the Herrings of Madison County, Georgia. In 1861 and 1862, four Herring brothers (along with their half-brother, James W. Payton) enlisted in Company A, 16th GA Volunteer Infantry Regiment, CSA (Madison County Greys).

One brother, Henry L. Herring (my gg grandfather), survived although he suffered a gunshot wound at Chancellorsville and lost the use of an arm.

Also, their father, Alpheus Herring (age 51 in 1862), in the defense of his country, joined Echol's Light Artillery, CSA when it was organized in July, 1862; he survived.


"Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth forevermore." - Ecclus 44: 14

"The past isn't gone. It isn't even past."
William Faulkner

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the lives of our ancestors by the records of history?"
Cicero, Roman orator

Retired from twenty-two years in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1990. Retired as programmer of CNC workcenters in 2004 and moved to beautiful East Tennessee. Author of two novels, "A Quickening Spirit" (partially an homage to Find A Grave) and "Life & Times of a Private Dick" (both available on Amazon.)

I am a descendant of the Herrings of Madison County, Georgia. In 1861 and 1862, four Herring brothers (along with their half-brother, James W. Payton) enlisted in Company A, 16th GA Volunteer Infantry Regiment, CSA (Madison County Greys).

One brother, Henry L. Herring (my gg grandfather), survived although he suffered a gunshot wound at Chancellorsville and lost the use of an arm.

Also, their father, Alpheus Herring (age 51 in 1862), in the defense of his country, joined Echol's Light Artillery, CSA when it was organized in July, 1862; he survived.


"Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth forevermore." - Ecclus 44: 14

"The past isn't gone. It isn't even past."
William Faulkner

"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the lives of our ancestors by the records of history?"
Cicero, Roman orator