Here is one of my ancestors graves. It gives you all the info you need to get started.
Posted on 06/28/2014 7:20:39 PM PDT by fella
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - A letter recently donated to the libraries at the University of Georgia gives an eyewitness account of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Civil War.
The letter is from Joseph Short to his wife, Nancy. It is part of the collection of William Joseph and Nancy Wallis Short family papers recently donated by Roger Rowell to UGA’s Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain began at 8 a.m. on June 27, 1864. By noon it was over, and Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman had lost the battle and 3,000 of his soldiers. But his army outflanked the Confederate Army after a five-day standoff and forced it to retreat to Smyrna. Sherman continued to head to Atlanta.
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I first found the grave stones for my ancestors who fought in the war. They all have their full name, and the outfit they served in.
Once you have that you can do a search with that info and always find them. Sometimes a lot. and sometimes just a little.
Yes, I can't figure out where he got it.
:-)
The battles that took place from Chatanooga down through Chickamauga followed by the continual flanking maneuvers of Sherman are a fascinating bit of military history and strategy.
They have done a wonderful job of preserving large areas of the battlefield and have a great historical center. If anyone is ever in the area they ought to make an effort to go. It is well worth it
Since Jeff Davis and those who wrote the papers stating what the confederacy was all about specifically sited slavery as the REASON for the battle it is more than a little revisionist to claim it was about states rights. The confederacy and the war were about slavery.
Here is one of my ancestors graves. It gives you all the info you need to get started.
I think it really depends on your family. If history and the telling of old family stories (even when passed down incorrectly) was part of your upbringing then you tend to care about the family history.
One of my relatives fought in the 1st Virginia but discharged dishonorably for desertion sometime in September of 1863. My guess is he had seen enough. And yet one of his relatives was a very famous doctor and soldier in Virginia during the civil war.
As a Celt I would assume you know and are well versed in your family history. The stories my Scotish grandmother used to tell of her family were (and are) priceless
Where is your relative buried? I love going to the old cemeteries and just walking them. The Confederate cemeteries here in Georgia are impressive
The largest battle fought in Florida was Olustee, near Jacksonville.
As Civil War Battles go it was not a huge one but every soldier who fought in it described it as the most fierce fighting they had been in and a lot of them had been in some hot battles. It was a Confederate victory.
That one is buried in the Broxson Cemetery near Leonia, Florida.
I have two more buried in the McDuffie Cemetery which is my Mother’s family cemetery. It sits right on the Alabama/Florida line.
Please support this claim with facts and don’t bother us with the Salon, NY Slimes, or Wikipedia rewriting of history crap.
If you are trying to peddle that Rewriting of history crap here .
It is the hand writing of Jeff Davis himself....the very documents
“As historian James McPherson explained in a recent article, it is especially difficult for southern whites “to admit - that the noble Cause for which their ancestors fought might have included the defense of slavery.” Yet, the best historical scholars over the last generation or more have argued convincingly for the centrality of slavery among the causes of the Civil War. The evidence for such arguments provided in the letters, speeches, and articles written by those who established and supported the Confederacy is overwhelming and difficult to deny. While slavery was not the only cause for which the South fought during the Civil War, the testimony of Confederate leaders and their supporters makes it clear that slavery was central to the motivation for secession and war. When southern whites in the 19th century spoke of the “southern way of life,” they referred to a way of life founded on white supremacy and supported by the institution of slavery. “
the above is from this link http://www.nps.gov/resources/story.htm?id=217
If you would actually study history then you wouldn’t have to look so foolish
Thanks.... Gives me more places to go
Yes I read it. I don’t think it is totally accurate tho the Confederate governments did often ensure that Slavery was to be respected but it was not the reason for the war.
Lincoln said, and quite clearly too, that he did not think it was about slavery but preserving the Union.
The is why the Northern Soldiers called themselves “The Union” side and not the slave freeing army,
The Confederates always said they were fighting for their states which meant states rights even if they didn’t say it.
I had the same experience with my grandmother. She grew up with her grandfather (a survivor of Picket's charge) and had to help him fasten his wooden leg on every morning.
The grave site is beautiful.
As for my relative the story goes he was is burried on his land and no one knows where.
Give it rest .
I am in no mood for your nonsense .
James McPherson is a historian who always seems to take an anti Southern position. I would not trust anything he says or even quotes.
I would even suspect as inaccurate if he had a letter supposedly in the hand of Robert E. Lee. Much original research is done, even if from an honest detachment then found out to be researching phone documents which have been said to be originals.
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