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Descendants of Charles Ryals

Generation No. 3

6. HARMON³ JOHNSON (DICY² RYALS, CHARLES¹) was born 02 Nov 1821 in MS, and died 14 Mar 1853 in MS. He married ELIZA J. ?? Abt. 1846 in MS. She was born Abt. 1832.

Notes for HARMON JOHNSON:
CENSUS: 1850 Attala Co MS

Children of HARMON JOHNSON and ELIZA ?? are:

	i.		JULIANN⁴ JOHNSON, b. Abt. 1847.
	ii.		SEREPTA E. JOHNSON, b. Abt. 1848.

7. JESSE³ RYALS (CHARLES², CHARLES¹) was born Abt. 1828 in Pike Co, MS. He married NARCISSA LAWRENCE Abt. 1847 in Attala Co, MS. She was born Abt. 1835 in MS.

Notes for JESSE RYALS:
CENSUS: 1850 Attala Co, MS; 1860 Leake Co, MS; 1870 Madison Co, MS
MILITARY: CSA -- Co G, 30th MS Inf. - ill much of the time. (Allen Helms <Helms5@aol.com> via email 14 Jan 2000)

Children of JESSE RYALS and NARCISSA LAWRENCE are:

20.	i.	HARRISON⁴ RYALS, b. Apr 1848, MS; d. Feb 1908, Scott Co, MS.
	ii.	CABITHA RYALS, b. Abt. 1849.
	iii.	EUGENIA RYALS, b. Abt. 1854.
	iv.	ISIAH RYALS, b. Abt. 1856.
21.	v.	A. JACKSON RYALS, b. Aug 1859, MS.
	vi.	ELIZABETH RYALS, b. Abt. 1869.

8. MARY CATHERINE³ RYALS (CHARLES², CHARLES¹)² was born 08 May 1829 in Mississippi², and died 22 May 1894 in Mississippi². She married (1) HARTWELL LAWRENCE². He was born Abt. 1826 in North Carolina², and died 22 Aug 1862 in Chattanooga, Hamilton Co., TN². She married (2) ?? GREEN Aft. 1862.

Notes for MARY CATHERINE RYALS:
SOURCE: Descendants of Hartwell & Mary (Ryals) Lawrence merged from Ken Jackson database 15 Sep 1998. Ken Jackson <ChowBoy@network-one.com> GED received via email 9 Sep 1998. Hartwell Lawrence descendant file -- hlwrnc.ftw.

Notes for HARTWELL LAWRENCE:
[hlawrnc.FTW]

Military Service: Was in C.S A. Private in Herndon's Rangers, Captain
Montgomery's Company.

Death: Died in the Battle of Chattanooga. Buried on the battlefield.

Children of MARY RYALS and HARTWELL LAWRENCE are:

	i.	MARTHA⁴ LAWRENCE², b. Abt. 1847, Mississippi²; d. Mississippi²; m. SALLIS JOHNSON².
22.	ii.	JAMES ARTEMIS LAWRENCE, b. 11 Apr 1850, Mississippi; d. 17 Sep 1924, Mississippi.
23.	iii.	WILLIAM P. LAWRENCE, b. 04 Nov 1852, Mississippi; d. 19 Sep 1922, Madison Co., MS.
	iv.	GARLAND W. LAWRENCE², b. Dec 1854, Mississippi².
	v.	RICHARD M. LAWRENCE², b. Abt. 1858, Mississippi²; d. 09 Apr 1900, Conway, Leake Co., MS².
24.	vi.	NATHANIEL DAVID LAWRENCE, b. 01 Jun 1859, Mississippi; d. 08 Jun 1930, Mississippi.

Child of MARY RYALS and ?? GREEN is:

vii.

FRANK⁴ GREEN, b. 1873.

9. ELIZABETH³ RYALS (CHARLES², CHARLES¹)³ was born Abt. 1832 in MS. She married (1) ?? LOVING³ 1848 in Attala Co., MS³. She married (2) ANDREW JACKSON LAWRENCE³ 22 Jan 1851 in Attala Co., MS³. He was born 1833 in Mississippi³, and died 01 Jan 1863 in Murfreesboro, Rutherford Co., TN³.

Notes for ELIZABETH RYALS:
SOURCE: GED received from Ken Jackson <ChowBoy@network-one.com> via email 9 Sep 1998. Descendants of Elizabeth Ryals merged 15 Sep 1998 (kjackson.ftw).

Notes for ANDREW JACKSON LAWRENCE:
[kjackson.FTW]

Birth: He was born during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, and was named
for him. President Jackson served in office from 1829 -1837.

Military Service: Was in the CSA. Served in Company "G", 30th
Regiment. He enlisted on October 31, 1862. Died in the Battle of Stones
River, 1 Jan, 1863 at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and was buried on the
battlefield. A diary kept by Judge Jason Niles of Kosciusko, Mississippi
has an entry dated 21 Jan 1863. He received a letter on this date from an
enlisted man who was in the 30th Mississippi Regiment, and this man
related the dead from Attala Co., MS in this battle. The entry states
that the men "were killed in battle in a cornfield, just to the right of
the Nolensville Road." He stated that the men were buried on the
battlefield. (In my search of CSA records, I also found an Andrew J.
Lawrence (Laurance) who was in Company "C", 11th Missisippi Infantry.)

Historical Notes: The Battle of Stones River was engaged on 31 Dec 1862
and ended 3 Jan 1863. The following is a narrative of the battle taken
from an article in the Lebanon Democrat, Lebanon, Tennessee 31 Jan 1990:
"Given a choice, neither William Rosecrans nor Braxton Bragg would have
chosen the banks of the Stones River for a major confrontation of their
two armies. And certainly, neither would have chosen New Year's Eve to
begin a battle. It was a miserable time and place to fight a major
battle. To begin with, the terrain around Stones River is full of rocky
limestone outcroppings and dense cedar thickets which made communications
and the movement of troops and artillery a real problem. The weather was
cold and wet. The roads were muddy. The river was higher than usual, and
the temperatures were freezing. There was even some sleet and hail. Like
so many monumental Civil War engagements, the battle at Stones River as
1862 ended and 1863 began, was forced on both armies by circumstances
beyond their control. It was largely dictated by politics. The Union
was in desperate need of a victory of some kind. Robert E. Lee was
outmaneuvering one Union commander after another in Virginia. The Union
Army had captured Nashville early in 1862 and had won a major battle at
Shiloh the previous spring, but the war in the western theater had bogged
down. The War Department in Washington put General William Rosecrans in
command at Nashville with orders to do something and threats to replace
him if he didn't. Rosecrans, however, inherited the problems in
Nashville. The railroads were not in very good shape and the Cumberland
River was low, so he had a supply problem. He also felt he had to
reorganize his army, so it wasn't until the day after Christmas that
Rosecrans felt he was finally ready to move. The movement of the Union
Army out of Nashville on December 26 forced Confederate General Braxton
Bragg to regather his forces from winter quarters around Murfreesboro,
just 25 miles to the southeast. On December 30, 1862 the two armies
faced each other across the small Stones River on the outskirts of
Murfreesboro. The two armies were camped that night within shouting
distance of each other. A band in one of the armies started playing a
song. A band on the other side responded with a song of its own.
Eventually one of them began playing 'Home Sweet Home'. The other band
joined in the melody. It was one of those poignant moments that men on
both sides would remember long after the battle. At dawn on December 31,
Bragg's Confederate army attacked in one of the most savage battles of
the war. New Year's Eve at Stones River was the single bloodiest day of
the war in Tennessee. There were more than 23,000 casualties before the
fighting ended. By comparison, there had been 24,000 casualties at
Shiloh the previous April. Ironically, both Rosecrans and Bragg had
exactly the same battle plan --- hold with the right flank and strike
with the left. If they had had the same timetable, it would have been
like a huge revolving door, but Bragg attacked first and virtually
crushed the Union right flank. One key point in the New Year's Eve battle
was a circular wooded area known as "The Round Forest', held by Union
Colonel William B. Hazen's brigade. Before the day was over, the Round
Forest would have a new name. Hazen's men called it 'Hell's Half
Acre'. Confederate forces attacked the Round Forest four separate times,
but they could not dislodge Hazen's men. Despite the Union stand in the
Round Forest, Bragg thought he had won a major victory and even sent a
telegram to Confederate President Jefferson Davis telling him so. He was
surprised on New Year's Day to find Rosecrans was still there. There was
very little fighting on January 1, 1863 but Bragg attacked again on
January 2. This time Rosecrans was ready for him with massed cannons. The
Union artillery killed or wounded some 1800 Confederates in less than an
hour in what proved to be the final fight at Stones River. Bragg's
Confederate Army limped away into winter quarters around Tullahoma and
Shelbyville while the Union Army attempted to regroup. Rosecrans didn't
really move his Union Army again until the following June. By that time,
Bragg's Confederate Army was ready to fight again. Bragg and Rosecrans
would meet again a little less than a year later near Chattanooga across
another small stream called Chickamauga. And this time, Bragg would win
the victory he thought was his at Stones River.

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Some Information About the Battle of Stones River:

Some Mississippi Units who fought in the battle:

Second Division, commanded by Major/General James M. Withers
Second Brigade, commanded by Brigadier General James R. Chalmers and
Colonel T.W. White

UNITS:
7th Mississippi
9th Mississippi
Colonel T.W. White
9th Mississippi Battalion Sharpshooters
O.F. West
10th Mississippi
41st Mississippi
?? Blythe's Mississippi Regiment

Third Brigade, commanded by Walthall
UNITS:
24th Mississippi
27th Mississippi
29th Mississippi
30th Mississippi

Child of ELIZABETH RYALS and ?? LOVING is:

MARGARET⁴ LOVING³, b. 1849, Attala Co., MS³.

Children of ELIZABETH RYALS and ANDREW LAWRENCE are:

25.	ii.	MATTHEW W.⁴ LAWRENCE, b. Nov 1851, Attala Co., MS.
26.	iii.	MARTHA QUINTILLIAM LAWRENCE, b. 11 Jun 1853, Attala Co., MS; d. Aft. 1900, Zilpha, Attala Co., MS.
27.	iv.	MARY JANE LAWRENCE, b. 02 Feb 1856, Mississippi; d. 27 Jul 1913, Leake Co., MS.
	v.	DRUCILLA FRANCES LAWRENCE³, b. Abt. 1860, Mississippi³; d. Mississippi³.

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