While researching an article on the Mayors of Picayune for the Pearl River County Historical Society, I found an entry in a book of biographical sketches of Mississippians on Eastman F. Tate, an early mayor of Picayune. According to the author, Eastman F. Tate's father, Eastman R. Tate, served the Confederacy in the Seventh Mississippi Infantry in a company commanded by Capt. A. E. Foxworth of Columbia, Mississippi. According to Dunbar's Military History of Mississippi, Company D, Jeff Davis Sharpshooters, Marion County, had two Second Lieutenants, Franklin W. Foxworth and Job M. Foxworth. The Captain of this company was Hamilton Mayson who was elected Lieutenant-Colonel and replaced by Henry Pope.
Searching the military records of two well know archives I was unable to locate an Eastman R. Tate in any Confederate military unit. (I also searched under E. R. Tate and Eastman Tate.) A trip to MDAH may be in order to search the Confederate Service Records on file in the media room. However, that research trip will need to be postponed until after the Bicentennial Celebration and Grand Opening of the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on December 9, 2017.
Any information anyone has on Eastman R. Tate, Company D, or the Seventh Regiment Mississippi Infantry would be greatly appreciated.
