Eli Cooper Lewis

Jeff Lewis, my dad Paul Harty's cousin in the same generation, is also an avid family historian. He has many Lewis artifacts in his possession. When recently viewing this new webpage, he commented:

Brent,

I like the web page a lot. I think you have one of the pictures identified wrong. The picture of the fellow on the banner that is identified as Andrew J Copper is really Eli Cooper Lewis, He was Joe Guilds younger brother. He was a First Corporal in Co. A., 8th Mo. cavalry along with Joe.

Good work,
Jeff Lewis

Thanks Jeff for the clarification. So that everyone now knows, there are two Lewis's in the banner. Of course, Joseph Guild Lewis, my 3rd great grandfather, as you may recall, and now Eli Cooper Lewis, Joseph's younger brother. You will notice Eli in the upper left-hand corner of the banner. Both men were in Co. B (later merged to Co. A) and both returned home to SE Missouri after their surrender in Shreveport, LA on 7 Jun 1865.

It is nice to see, that only after having this site up for a few weeks, there are clarifications made in family history that weren't known (at least to myself and my Dad) to some of the descendants of the Lewis family. This was one of the aims of the site. Thanks, Jeff, for fixing a sizable error on my part and setting history straight...I'm sure Eli and his descendants thank you for it at the least!