Confederate POW's remains heading home to Fla.

Boston Herald ^ | 26 September 2002 | Tom Farmer

[stainlessbanner]

Welcome home, Lt. Johnston. Thank you for your service, Sir.

[stainlessbanner]

Please welcome one of our boys back home!

[Constitution Day]

His hearse will be escorted by state troopers through each state from Massachusetts to Florida...

I wonder when the hearse will be coming through North Carolina?

[SouthernFreebird]

WOW.....I hope we get some Pics!!!

[4CJ]

I wonder when the hearse will be coming through Georgia?

Lt. Edward J.K. Johnston, welcome home, and thank you for your service, sir. Deo vindice.

[stainlessbanner]

he body will be placed on a replica Confederate sailing ship for the final leg of the trip to Fernadina.

I would love to see this!

[billbears]

I'm wondering if Easley will allow state funds to go toward such a deserving cause. I mean he uses state troopers cars to transport legislators to get our taxes raised, the least he could do is this

[wardaddy]

Bump...

He'll be in good company. Isn't Richard Boone (Palladin) buried on Fernadina?

[Constitution Day]

I *knew* someone would catch my meaning.
I think I'll write him a letter!

CD

[stand watie]

do we have a "tour schedule" for the HERO's remains?

if he's coming through the DC/MD/VA area, i'll fall the rebels out to meet the hearse.

free the southland,sw

[Constitution Day]

Confederate ping.

[Ff--150]

No, Boone's ashes were spread off the coast of Hawaii...

[wardaddy]

Damn...didn't he have a bar and digs there in Fernadina back in the old days?

[Constitution Day]

My letter to the North Carolina Sons of Confederate Veterans Commander and Lt. Commander:

Dear Sirs:

.

I am a member of ______________ Camp #___ in ______, NC. I got your e-mail addresses from the NCSCV.org website.

Today, I read this article in the online edition of the Boston Herald regarding the planned exhumation and re-interment of the last Confederate POW thought to be buried up North. For your convenience, I have copied the entire article below.

The article mentions that:
"His hearse will be escorted by state troopers through each state from Massachusetts to Florida, where the body will be placed on a replica Confederate sailing ship for the final leg of the trip to Fernadina."

I am wondering if the North Carolina SCV is aware of this and has planned to participate in any way. If so, I would like more information on what I can do to help.

I do not know what date the hearse will be traveling through NC, or if Governor Easley will actually allow the NCSHP to escort it. After all, he has not been exactly sympathetic to, or respectful of, our cause and our ancestors in years past.

Thanks in advance for your attention.

Deo Vindice!

.

Compatriot ________________
______________, NC

[Ff--150]

Don't know about the bar? Don't know where Fernadina is, but Boone lived and died in St. Augustine.

Glad the Lt. is finally coming home...

[wardaddy]

Fernandina Beach is about the last town on the beach north of Jacksonville right before the Georgia line.

Boone had a bar there in the 1970s I frequented in 1977. Sort of a rustic Hawg's Breath sort of place.

[strela]

Ballad of the Rebel Soldier

In a dreary yankee prison, where the rebel soldier lay
By his side stood a preacher, should his soul pass away
And he faintly whispered, "parson", as he clutched him by the hand
Oh parson, tell me quickly, will my soul pass through the southland?

Will my soul pass through the southland, through old Virginia grand
Will I see the hills of Georgia and the green fields of Alabam?
Will I see the little church house, where I pledged my heart and hand
Oh parson, tell be quickly, will my soul pass through the southland?

Was for loving dear old Dixie in this northern cell I lie
Was for loving dear old Dixie in this northern state I die
Will you see my little daughter, will you make her understand
Oh parson, tell me quickly, will my soul pass through the southland?

Then the rebel soldier died

[Colt .45]

Welcome home Lt. Johnson, and a salute to you sir. Thank you for fighting for our freedom. Another Son of the South salutes you.

[Colt .45]

Sorry all, I meant Lt. Johnston. My apologies for the previous error.

[doglot]

Thanks for the ping! It ain't over til it's over.