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1. MAJOR DAVID WASHINGTON SELF’S BROTHER,
FRANKLIN DAWSON SELF:
Self, Franklin Dawson, Lt. (later Capt.) Company B, 17th La. Inf. En. Sept. 30, 1861, Camp Moore, La. Present on Rolls to Nov., 1861. Roll Dec., 1861. Present, with
remarks: Absent on furlough commencing Dec. 7. Returned Dec. 31,
1861. Rolls Jan.,
1862, to May 23, 1862, Present. Roll May and June, 1862, Present,
promoted to 2nd Jr. Lt., May 23, 1862. Rolls Aug. 31, 1862, to Oct., 1862, Present. Roll Nov. and Dec., 1862,
Present or absent not stated. Recapitulation, Present for duty. Roll Jan. and
Feb., 1863, Present. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured and paroled
at Vicksburg, Miss., July 4, 1863.
2. MAJOR DAVID WASHINGTON SELF’S 1st COUSIN:
WILLIAM FRANKLIN SELF
(Son of his Uncle Elijah Self)
Self, William Franklin, Private Company B, 17th La. Inf. En. Sept. 30, 1861, Camp Moore, La. Present on
all Rolls to Feb., 1862. Roll March and April, 1862, Died March 20,
1862. (Editor,
Don Smith: Born in 1842 in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, he
was 20 years old when he died in the Civil War.)
3. MAJOR
WASHINGTON SELF’S BROTHER-IN-LAW,
CAPTAIN
JOHN THORNTON SIBLEY
Major David Washington Self’s brother-in-law was Captain John
Thornton Sibley, the brother of his wife, Elizabeth Lutitia Sibley. He was
brigade quartermaster. All of Major Self’s pay receipt forms say “I have
received of Capt. J. T. Sibley,a.g.m. 17th La Vol (underlined portion
is handwritten). I assume that “a.g.m.” means “Adjutant Quarter Master” and
“17th La Vol” means 17th Regiment of Louisiana
Volunteers. Captain John Thornton Sibley was commended by General Patton
Anderson, C.S.A. at Battle of Shiloh on April
6 and 7, 1862 “for his activity and promptitude in keeping up our supply of
ammunition during the day’s fight. He was ever present, ready to respond to
my call for indispensable want of the soldier on the battlefield. He was
equally efficient in bringing off the field all the ammunition not consumed,
as well as wagons, ambulances, mules,
or other means of transportation, returning to Corinth without
the loss of any.”
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