Posted on 09/15/2012 8:39:44 AM PDT by Davy Buck
But this attitude by the Veterans Administration is not necessarily confined to Confederate soldiers. An article in the most recent issue of Civil War News explains that the current V.A. has "reinterpreted existing law." This flies in the face of a policy which has been in place since 1906 and which allowed--even encouraged--the placing of appropriate headstones, without preference, for both Union and Confederate Veterans . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at oldvirginiablog.blogspot.com ...
OK, you had a Tory ancestor but we FReepers still love ya anyway! God bless you and yours!
Gee I had FIVE proven Tory ancestors...
and I have UELAC certificates for all 5 Loyalists...
FIVE times the love
:)
United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada
Gee I had FIVE proven Tory ancestors...
and I have UELAC certificates for all 5 Loyalists...
FIVE times the love
:)
United Empire Loyalist Association of Canada
Eh ???
When my McGinnis family was imprisoned in Fort Dayton...
Grandmother in her 60s, daughters and sons-in-law, and grandchildren, one age only 10 and her younger siblings, a teenage granddaughter was raped and murdered by the rebel guards...
BTW that 10 year old was my 4th great grandmother ...
arrested and imprisoned as a dangerous enemy...
the raped and murdered girl was her cousin...
General St Leger was coming so the rebels let them go or the rebels fled and they escaped....
Indians helped them flee northward to Canada...
OK that was Margaret Thompson, daughter of John Thompson and Dorothy McGinnis, who was raped and murdered by rebel guards in Fort Dayton, (Herkimer County, NY)
I notice that you omit the murders and oppressions that your Torrie scum friends committed on the people in Northern NY along with their Savage allies.
I never said they were perfect...
There was bad on both sides...
2 of my Loyalists were in Butlers Rangers...Indian Dept...they were interpreters..
Were they at Cherry Valley I dont know...
Yes Butlers Rangers were there but it waqs a large unit...
and yes the Indians did murder and scalp people in the fort...
But the rebels had savage allies also...
LOL
I had a direct relative 3rd great grandmother die in NY state in 1888 ...Born in Vermont 1815...
Had nothing to do with your scummy “general” Sullivan...
she lived there with her daughter the granddaughter and great granddaughter and great great granddaughter of those same Butler Rangers Loyalists ...
BTW was that the Sullivan who pretended he was the first to cut a road through to Pennsylvania ???
The same road that had already been cut years before by Loyalists ???
Where the Loyalists had already been living for several years ???
Sullivan County, NY ???
Lots of the Loyalists came back to the US
especially if their homes were still there...
Mine had lost their homes...burnt and stolen by the rebels...
They started from scratch in Canada...
Then the rebels went up to Canada in 1814 and burnt them out again...
This time it was that 10 year old girl Hannah De Forest Secord now a widow who had her house burnt down...
Both sets of grandparents had been burnt out and had to flee for their lives and now her house...
I come from some strong stock...
BTW the guy who ordered the burning of Hannahs house and the the towns in Canada was tossed out dishonorably from the American army...
What was his name ???
Oh and ah...
Dont have a heart attack but...
All my “Torrie scum relatives” are here...
Im here
:)
The New Harmony folks had religious reasons for the unmarked graves. I didn’t know about the other reasons, but that sure makes sense. Thanks for the info.
I’ll check out that Allen. I have some Allens in my mother’s line. It would be interesting to find a connection.
I enjoy finding the “out-of-the-ordinary” ancestors!
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