One of my relatives skedaddled at Chickamauga. He walked away from the 21st Illinois Infantry at Gordon’s Mill and never came back. Hiked through Tennessee and crossed the Mississippi near Ft. Pillow and walked all the way to Kansas where he hid amongst the Shawnee. He met and married my GGGMother a beautiful Shawnee princess. They walked to California and settled in the San Diego area. They stayed there until the war was over and walked back to Tennessee to the Dyersburg area. Two generations later my Grandfather married another Shawnee princess who bore my father in Ashmore Illinois. Ain’t life grand???
Rick
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"We made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle.... We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers"
- Robert E. Lee
The Battle Flag of The Madison Light Artillery (Louisiana)
MOODY'S BATTERY - 24 Pound Howitzers
Alexander's Battalion
Longstreets Corps
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