Hello everyone, I'm new here, and I'll be just lurking around for a while, but I hope to be posting and sharing as soon as I learn my way around.
My primary area of study has been the 11th Indiana Battery. My GGGrandfather served in the unit, and over the past 15 years or so I have researched and written an as yet unpublished unit history. Last year the Indiana Historical Society published an article I wrote on the formation of the battery. Over the years I have had the great priviledge of meeting several of the descendents of other battery men. A few years back we all met in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the battery was formed. We spent the next ten days travelling the route the battery had, 140 years earlier. I wonder what our GGGrandfathers would have thought about their GGGrandchildren telling their stories.
Well, hope to be sharing soon, and learning from this great group as well. Thanks Ole for the invite.
I hope you enjoy your time here and please do involve yourself in our many interesting catagories and threads.
Again, welcome to the board.
Sincerely,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Please feel free to hop aboard and share your knowledge with these gentlemen and ladies. There are many actual scholars in our midst who are quite helpful if you can get their attention! The Indiana regiments have long since been a great source of information about our Confederate regiments since they moved well south into Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama and brought good clerks with them. Our southern boys couldn't write as well. Lot's of the Hoosiers put up a good fight or two! As others have said, glad to have you here!
__________________ Ancestors in US Army: 13th TN Cav; 10th TN Cav; 3rd NC Inf
Ancestors in CSA Army: 48th VA; 63rd VA, 5th NC Cav; 37th NC
Wife and Grandson's CSA: 15th AL, 51st GA, 41st TN; 36th TN; GA Mil 1197 Dist
I'll take full credit for inviting Dave to visit us. You will find that he ranks highly among the scholars contributing to various forums, and I very much wanted his input here. Enjoy his perspective and, thank you, Dave.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
__________________ Few take the trouble to understand or to view the American scene with perspective. And we Americans love to find ourselves guilty of something. However, it is never I who am guilty, but those other Americans, the past or present government or the other political party. Americans almost never find other countries guilty. It is always ourselves or our fancied influence in other countries. Louis L'amour
Welcome Dave. That must be quite a monumental task to research and write a unit history so long after the original members have long passed. Kudos and welcome again.
Union Ancersor: Pvt Arnuah Norton, 60th Ohio. (G-G-G Grandfather) Died at Salisbury NC, November 3, 1864
Confederate Ancestors: Captain Thomas A. Morrow, 29th Texas Cavalry (G-G-G- Uncle) and 2LT George W. Morrow, 31st Texas Cavalry (G-G-G Grandfather). Both survived the war
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