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The Gettysburg Reunion of 1913
Canda Free Press ^ | July 3, 2011 | Calvin E. Johnson, Jr.

Posted on 07/03/2011 5:17:31 PM PDT by BigReb555

Fifty years had passed since the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1st- 3rd, 1863.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: abrahamlincoln; bowdoincollege; brunswick; confederate; gettysburg; godsgravesglyphs; joshualchamberlain; maine; reunion; thecivilwar; thegreatestpresident; union
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To: cyclotic

You have this confused- Tyler’s grandsons are still alive not his sons. Tyler was 63 when his son, Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born in 1853(and he died in 1935). He also had a daughter by this second wife, Pearl, born 1860 and died in 1947. The former President was 30 years older than his second wife. President Tyler died in 1862 at age 72.

Lyon Gardiner Tyler married twice, like his dad. His second wife bore him two sons, one born in 1924 and the other born in 1928. These two are Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr. and Harrison Ruffin Tyler. They are 87 and 83 years old respectively.

This kind of thing can happen when both the father and the son marry twice and conceive sons very late in their lives.


61 posted on 07/03/2011 9:17:36 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: BigReb555

I know of three gg-grandfathers that fought for the north and of at least one that fought for the south.


62 posted on 07/03/2011 9:20:05 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead.)
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To: BigReb555

There are still over 100 TRUE sons and daughters of Civil War veterans still alive today! If you get the chance, Id add it to your bucket list to find one and meet them and talk to them before they too belong to the ages. I recommend doing the same for WW2 vets...I’ve been clipping out the obits just in our local paper, daily, for 3 months now..we lose an average of 2 a day just in this city..another decade or so and those vets, too, will be gone but for memories.


63 posted on 07/03/2011 9:21:14 PM PDT by JoshuaLawrenceChamberlain
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To: ladyvet
Ladyvet, I am personally aquainted with one of General Early's nephews. Would you consider returning the Bible to it's rightful owner?
64 posted on 07/03/2011 9:21:20 PM PDT by unreconstructedtx
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To: BigReb555

The dome of the U.S. capitol was completed during the War Between the States, you know . . . a lasting symbol of federal power. The war ain’t over, though.


65 posted on 07/03/2011 9:29:16 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: passionfruit
My family and I love to take walks in Hollywood Cemetary. We were showing some tourists John Tyler's grave and my eldest daughter struck up a conversation with a woman there. The lady works for the Virginia Historical Society and she told us that she personally knew one of John Tyler's grandsons. I was completely blown away. It seems like a long time ago but it really isn't.

I'm 41 and my grandmother (who passed away 2 years ago) recollected all the stories her grandfather told her about his father who fought under Gen. Lee.(My older children are 19 and 18 and they spent their young lives hearing my grandmother tell these stories, too.) My grandmother and her family also lived a stone's throw from Jubal Early and his family and I remember being 6 or 7 and my 90ish year old great-grandmother talking about how much her father disliked Early.

66 posted on 07/03/2011 9:34:55 PM PDT by constitutiongirl (The Truth is a Person.)
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To: Larry Lucido

My grandfather was born in the late 1880’s and lived for over a hundred years. He saw the invention of, electric lights, automobiles, planes, refrigerators, air conditioning, rockets, moon landings, the birth of the computer age and the list is endless. His first job when he left home was working for a cattle ranch in Texas on horseback. The old men he knew as a boy went back to a time when much of America was still a wild land. The old men those men knew as a boy predated the country. We are only a few acquaintances removed from the events of the past.


67 posted on 07/03/2011 9:38:43 PM PDT by dog breath
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I am the proud owner of George Washington’s hatchet!

It’s had 6 new heads and 10 new handles since George owned it though.


68 posted on 07/03/2011 9:44:48 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: tflabo

Just Bumping this most enjoyable thread, it is ashame that our history is no longer taught in our public schools.


69 posted on 07/03/2011 10:10:08 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: AGreatPer

“BTW, 6/15/39 here you old fart.”

LOL, watch your top knot, some younger scalawags here on FR seem to have an intense dislike for us old farts who are robbing them or something.

IIRC, after extracting themselves from the tangle of woods at Willouby’s Run, the Iron Brigade had regrouped on the high ground at McPherson’s Ridge, and were dislodged from there by 26th North Carolina brigade, then retreated to Seminary Ridge, where they regrouped and after very bloody fighting were dislodged again by the 26th North Carolina, and retreated through Gettysburg to Cemetery Ridge.


70 posted on 07/03/2011 10:13:07 PM PDT by Sea Parrot
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IMO, "What if", absolutely must be asked.

If Special Order 191 had not been found by Union Corporal Barton W. Mitchell of the 27th Indiana Volunteers around 10 in the morning of September 13, 1862, then the entire end of Civil War may well have had a completely different outcome.

None-the-less, Special Order 191 was found by the Union Army.

An interesting alternative history that ponders the "What If" was written by Harry Turtledove called "How Few Remain". I found it an interesting and entertaining read. I think there may be a pdf ebook version online somewhere.

71 posted on 07/03/2011 10:24:38 PM PDT by pyx (Rule#1.The LEFT lies.Rule#2.See Rule#1. IF THE LEFT CONTROLS THE LANGUAGE, IT CONTROLS THE ARGUMENT.)
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To: BigReb555

My great grandfather’s older brother was at Gettysburg with the 13th Mississippi, Barksdale’s Brigade. He was killed during the charge through the Peach Orchard on the 2nd day of the battle.


72 posted on 07/03/2011 11:48:34 PM PDT by Pelham (Islam. The original Evil Empire)
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To: BigReb555; Squantos

I can only imagine the snipes from the usual jackasses who are in all likelihood not even from kin here at the time who coulda fought union blue or csa butternut...but they know it all from PBS

God bless you and happy fourth

My boys start Battle of Franklin summer camp next week near our home which borders where the slaughter commenced


73 posted on 07/04/2011 12:14:22 AM PDT by wardaddy (Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....but Bachman bashers can kiss my ass)
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To: cripplecreek

I was at little bighorn site 2 weeks ago

What a poor choice by Custer....simply awful choice of ground to fight anyone much less a mobile take no petitioners bunch


74 posted on 07/04/2011 12:16:59 AM PDT by wardaddy (Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....but Bachman bashers can kiss my ass)
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To: cripplecreek

Prisoners....sorry damn droids are frustrating with swype


75 posted on 07/04/2011 12:18:16 AM PDT by wardaddy (Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....but Bachman bashers can kiss my ass)
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To: Palter; Squantos; WKB; Travis McGee; Pelham; dixiechick2000

My great great grandfather fought as a young calvary boy at vicksburg etc in csa as did his daddy in his 40s....he had 4 wives..the last being in his 60s and lasting into his 80s when he died in 1928....his youngest daughter died this past year at mid 90s
in Jackson Miss
Her daddy...my great x2 granddaddy...same man and csa vet too....and I knew her well....not many folks alive in 2010 who could claim daddy fight in that war from 150 years ago

I think oldest csa widow died in 1995 or so

I remember old black man died at 115 when I was boy
Vet of that war in the early 60s


76 posted on 07/04/2011 12:31:44 AM PDT by wardaddy (Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....but Bachman bashers can kiss my ass)
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To: cyclotic

You might like to rethink that and add a generation...maybe grand kid is alive...long shot


77 posted on 07/04/2011 12:35:13 AM PDT by wardaddy (Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....but Bachman bashers can kiss my ass)
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To: tflabo

Last undisputed vet died in 1956....Woolson though several who died in 1960s ...one a black CSA VET may have been last actually...Woolson was for sure last Yankee vet

Last widow died in 2004...in Bama...Enterprise..tornado alley

Last Blue wife died the year before in Tennessee


78 posted on 07/04/2011 12:42:12 AM PDT by wardaddy (Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....but Bachman bashers can kiss my ass)
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To: Pelham

Barksdale’s sister Virginia is the great great grandma of my wife

She was married to Levi Wade of Rutherford county TN....huge cotton plantation owner and major CSA pol

Course between losing the war and all the campaign in the area they got wiped out...we still maintain the family cemetary at the old plantation site....what’s left not developed...their grandfather donated a big chunk to district of columbia at request of government at the time and had been revolutionary war people....have a cornerstone plaque there with others

We have several Barksdale prints and some letters etc

My own people were less gentry...


79 posted on 07/04/2011 12:54:27 AM PDT by wardaddy (Palin or Bachman..either with Marco....but Bachman bashers can kiss my ass)
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To: Squantos

My wife has several relatives buried in the Kenedy, Texas cemetery who were civil war veterans. Her dad could remember them and tell their stories. Not that many generations separate us.


80 posted on 07/04/2011 5:13:49 AM PDT by SLB (23rd Artillery Group, Republic of South Vietnam, Aug 1970 - Aug 1971.)
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