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William Patton Mauldin, my great-great grandfather, along with his brother James A. Mauldin, was born and raised in Pickens District, South Carolina. W. P. Mauldin served during the Civil War with Orr’s First South Carolina rifles and was captured near Petersburg on April 3, 1865. Upon his release from Hart’s Island, New York prison camp on June 16, 1865, he returned to Pickens District. In November 1865, W. P. and his brother James left South Carolina for Mississippi. In a short sketch of his life, W. P. Mauldin wrote the following:
“After reaching home found the country so badly torn up by Yankee raids, felt just like coming West, as had always thought would some day come West. So an opportunity offered my brother and myself to come to Mississippi, so on the 9th day of November, 1865, left South Carolina for Mississippi. We came through the country in a mule wagon and was 21 days on the road. Landed in Winston County December 1. Stayed there one year and then went to Carroll [County], hunting a still better part of Mississippi. Lived there 6 years. Married there on the 15th of January, 1868. [...] My wife’s name was Miss L. [Louisiana] E. [Elizabeth] Taylor. We married January 16, 1868 in Carroll County, Mississippi. She died March 13th, 1922. We lived happily together for 54 years and raised eleven children, all to be grown. Three of them have died since.”
W. P. Mauldin eventually settled in Wayne County, Mississippi while James A. Mauldin remained in or around Winston County.
I have looked at several old maps that show old wagon trails of the period to try to determine the most likely route taken by W. P. and James Mauldin from South Carolina to Mississippi. To travel that distance (about 360 miles) in 21 days meant traveling an average of about 17 miles per day. Factoring in waits to cross rivers and potentially several bad weather days and other possible delays meant that some of their days of travel would have been more than that.
Would anyone from the James A. Mauldin family have any information – family stories passed down or other information – about the trip he and W. P. Mauldin took from South Carolina to Mississippi in 1865?
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