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A Lacy Family History Book
Lacy, Ed. (comp. & ed.) A Short, Personal History of the Lacy Family of Jackson County, Tennessee, 1056-1939. 356 W. Claridge St., Satellite Beach, FL, 1979.
The Mystery of Lieutenant Andrew Jackson Lacy
In the Summer of 1862, A. J. Lacy enlisted as a Lieutenant in the 8th Tennessee Cavalry. He spent one year in the Confederate cavalry before resigning his commission for unknown reasons. He never returned home. There is no record of him after his resignation. Following the war, his wife, assuming A. J. Lacy was dead, remarried. The family never learned what happened to him.
Great-great-grandson, Mark E. Lacy, published a book in 2019 that details his research into the disappearance of Lt. Lacy. The description reads:
Drawing on a large number of family letters from the Civil War, Mark Lacy has reconstructed the story of his ancestor’s service to the Confederacy as well as the chaotic circumstances under which the young lieutenant vanished behind enemy lines, only twenty-five miles from home. The result is a detailed account that brings the war down to a personal level and highlights the hardships brought on by guerrillas attacking families and their farms.
The book is Missing in Action, 1863: Lieutenant Andrew Jackson Lacy and Tennessee’s Confederate Cavalry. Mark Lacy published a companion book that contains letters and documents related to Lt. Lacy with historical analysis. That book is Battlefront and Homefront: The Lacy Family’s Civil War Documents.f
Click here to read Mark Lacy’s personal blog that contains information about his research.