In letters, concerning their mother's pension application for their father's service in the Home Guard, dated in March 1931, William A. McQuagge as Tax Assessor of Jackson County, FL states that "....father (Murdock McQuagge) was never in the regular (Confederate) army....due to the fact that he was so badly crippled before the war was declared between the States until he was rejected from regular duty on account of gun shot wounds received from an accident"; "father was so crippled (because)....he was seriously shot in the left arm...to where he was never able to do manual labor....(to) say nothing of being fit for regular army duty during the war...."; and Archie G. McQuagge as assistant chief clerk of the Circuit Court of Pinellas County, FL states that "time and again I have heard him voluntarily speak of the service he and others rendered as Home Guards and particularly being stationed....at the old Douglas Ferry on the Choctawhatchee River...for the purpose of aiding not only the soldiers to cross over the river but others transporting supplies by ox team to Marianna and other places."
Murdock was in Captain John Gillis' Home Guard in Walton County and after that he was briefly in Captain Jones Company from Vernon. He would possibly have been left to man the river ferry since he was not able to ride all that well and would not have been with Jones Company during the skirmish at Vernon during the 1864 Raid on Marianna. His oldest brother Duncan and his older first cousin Angus D. Gillis were killed in action or missing early in the war. His older first cousin Jonathan W. McQuagge from Marianna (enlisted at Montgomery, AL) died from a lung infection at Rock Island Prison and is buried at Rock Island Confederate Cemetery , Rock Island County, Illinois . His first cousin Daniel J. McQuagge of Marianna was severely wounded in the face at Chancellorsville, but survived. His oldest cousin Angus McQuagge and younger brother Samuel McQuagge only served a short time with their units.
On August 17, 1877 Murdock married Minerva A. Gainer at Orange Hill just outside of Chipley, Florida. Immediately after the marriage the couple went to Eucheeanna, Walton County, Fla. near the old historic Euchee Valley Presbyterian Church and lived there until 1882 when they moved to Orange Hill near where they were married and lived there until Feb. 1888, when they moved to Econfina Creek and stayed there until 1894.
In 1895 the family made a crop at Rock Hill in Washington County....and sharecropped at several places in the Orange Hill area.... until January of 1911 when the older boys bought their parents a home on South Sixth Street in Chipley and they lived there until their deaths.
Murdock was in Captain John Gillis' Home Guard in Walton County and after that he was briefly in Captain Jones Company from Vernon. He would possibly have been left to man the river ferry since he was not able to ride all that well and would not have been with Jones Company during the skirmish at Vernon during the 1864 Raid on Marianna. His oldest brother Duncan and his older first cousin Angus D. Gillis were killed in action or missing early in the war. His older first cousin Jonathan W. McQuagge from Marianna (enlisted at Montgomery, AL) died from a lung infection at Rock Island Prison and is buried at Rock Island Confederate Cemetery , Rock Island County, Illinois . His first cousin Daniel J. McQuagge of Marianna was severely wounded in the face at Chancellorsville, but survived. His oldest cousin Angus McQuagge and younger brother Samuel McQuagge only served a short time with their units.
On August 17, 1877 Murdock married Minerva A. Gainer at Orange Hill just outside of Chipley, Florida. Immediately after the marriage the couple went to Eucheeanna, Walton County, Fla. near the old historic Euchee Valley Presbyterian Church and lived there until 1882 when they moved to Orange Hill near where they were married and lived there until Feb. 1888, when they moved to Econfina Creek and stayed there until 1894.
In 1895 the family made a crop at Rock Hill in Washington County....and sharecropped at several places in the Orange Hill area.... until January of 1911 when the older boys bought their parents a home on South Sixth Street in Chipley and they lived there until their deaths.
In letters, concerning their mother's pension application for their father's service in the Home Guard, dated in March 1931, William A. McQuagge as Tax Assessor of Jackson County, FL states that "....father (Murdock McQuagge) was never in the regular (Confederate) army....due to the fact that he was so badly crippled before the war was declared between the States until he was rejected from regular duty on account of gun shot wounds received from an accident"; "father was so crippled (because)....he was seriously shot in the left arm...to where he was never able to do manual labor....(to) say nothing of being fit for regular army duty during the war...."; and Archie G. McQuagge as assistant chief clerk of the Circuit Court of Pinellas County, FL states that "time and again I have heard him voluntarily speak of the service he and others rendered as Home Guards and particularly being stationed....at the old Douglas Ferry on the Choctawhatchee River...for the purpose of aiding not only the soldiers to cross over the river but others transporting supplies by ox team to Marianna and other places."
Murdock was in Captain John Gillis' Home Guard in Walton County and after that he was briefly in Captain Jones Company from Vernon. He would possibly have been left to man the river ferry since he was not able to ride all that well and would not have been with Jones Company during the skirmish at Vernon during the 1864 Raid on Marianna. His oldest brother Duncan and his older first cousin Angus D. Gillis were killed in action or missing early in the war. His older first cousin Jonathan W. McQuagge from Marianna (enlisted at Montgomery, AL) died from a lung infection at Rock Island Prison and is buried at Rock Island Confederate Cemetery , Rock Island County, Illinois . His first cousin Daniel J. McQuagge of Marianna was severely wounded in the face at Chancellorsville, but survived. His oldest cousin Angus McQuagge and younger brother Samuel McQuagge only served a short time with their units.
On August 17, 1877 Murdock married Minerva A. Gainer at Orange Hill just outside of Chipley, Florida. Immediately after the marriage the couple went to Eucheeanna, Walton County, Fla. near the old historic Euchee Valley Presbyterian Church and lived there until 1882 when they moved to Orange Hill near where they were married and lived there until Feb. 1888, when they moved to Econfina Creek and stayed there until 1894.
In 1895 the family made a crop at Rock Hill in Washington County....and sharecropped at several places in the Orange Hill area.... until January of 1911 when the older boys bought their parents a home on South Sixth Street in Chipley and they lived there until their deaths.
Murdock was in Captain John Gillis' Home Guard in Walton County and after that he was briefly in Captain Jones Company from Vernon. He would possibly have been left to man the river ferry since he was not able to ride all that well and would not have been with Jones Company during the skirmish at Vernon during the 1864 Raid on Marianna. His oldest brother Duncan and his older first cousin Angus D. Gillis were killed in action or missing early in the war. His older first cousin Jonathan W. McQuagge from Marianna (enlisted at Montgomery, AL) died from a lung infection at Rock Island Prison and is buried at Rock Island Confederate Cemetery , Rock Island County, Illinois . His first cousin Daniel J. McQuagge of Marianna was severely wounded in the face at Chancellorsville, but survived. His oldest cousin Angus McQuagge and younger brother Samuel McQuagge only served a short time with their units.
On August 17, 1877 Murdock married Minerva A. Gainer at Orange Hill just outside of Chipley, Florida. Immediately after the marriage the couple went to Eucheeanna, Walton County, Fla. near the old historic Euchee Valley Presbyterian Church and lived there until 1882 when they moved to Orange Hill near where they were married and lived there until Feb. 1888, when they moved to Econfina Creek and stayed there until 1894.
In 1895 the family made a crop at Rock Hill in Washington County....and sharecropped at several places in the Orange Hill area.... until January of 1911 when the older boys bought their parents a home on South Sixth Street in Chipley and they lived there until their deaths.
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