Testing, testing

rallyround · #1 08-19-2002, 06:26 PM

I already have some other posts, but I just found this "meet and greet" board. (What a nice idea!) I'm not that familiar with message boards, so please forgive me if I'm not "up to standard"!

traveller · #2 08-20-2002, 12:17 AM

Welcome Aimee! Hope you enjoy it here. I am fairly new here too. As you can see war has been declared. Hope you stick around. Maybe the Federals will be needing re-enforcements. It's been fun so far.

Traveller

#3 08-20-2002, 01:53 AM

Welcome Aimee! Hope you like it here

redeye · #4 08-20-2002, 08:32 AM

Welcome, Aimee! Have fun, this is a really nice place.

rivrrat · #5 08-21-2002, 02:31 PM

Hello. My name is Doug and I am new here. Just discovered this site today. A Civil War nut since age about 12 when I read my first book about Gettesburg. A Missouri Partisan by birth, born on the Kansas border. A Yankee by ancestry on my fathers side, GG Uncle Warren Sgt. 35th Ill. Vol. Inf. killed at Chicamauga Sept. 19 1863. A Confederate by ancestry on my mothers side, she remembers her grandmother telling her about the Yankees burning the plantation in VA. Guess that makes me an American. Looking forward to the chat her.

blue_zouave · #6 08-21-2002, 02:45 PM

Hi Doug, from a fellow American with ancestry on both sides! I was just at Chickamauga this year - do you know which part of the field your gg-uncle was killed on?

My family has plantation stories too, but my research has since shown that they were just stories... Dang!

Zou

rivrrat · #7 08-21-2002, 05:12 PM

Thanks for the welcome Zou.

Although, I visited Chickamauga several years ago, I don’t know where on the field he was killed. I was not aware of him at the time. All I know so far is that he was killed on the first day of the battle. I know this from a copy of the entries in the regimental muster book concerning him. The State of Illinois is great about furnishing these copies at no cost, unless you want certified.

I have just started my research into my family, so I can’t personally speak to the truth of my Great Grandmother’s stories. My mother swears to them though and who am I to doubt my Mother.

Doug

#8 08-21-2002, 10:43 PM

Interesting Doug and welcome aboard!I believe you'll like it here.

redeye · #9 08-22-2002, 06:03 AM

Welcome, Doug! It's wonderful to have such a connection with the past history of one's family. I wish you luck for your researches.

rallyround · #10 08-25-2002, 10:09 AM

Doug, my family has no Civil War relations on either side...and I wonder why I am so interested! Welcome!