A family's Service

[John Hartwell]

The National tribune scrap book; stories of the camp, march, battle, hospital and prison told by comrades, was published in 1909, and among its 160-odd pages is this brief note:

Seems like a worthy research project for someone ambitious. I did a little bit of "poking around," without much success. But, I did come across the following note "From The Soldiers Home," that appeared in the Leavenworth Post, October 20, 1918, less than a month before the end of the First World War:

There's also a brief note from 1920, mentioning that Sgt William L. Baldwin, "the last of his name," was on furlough from the Soldiers' Home, for a pilgrimage to Goodman, Missouri, where his three sons and other relatives are buried.

Sort of makes you think, doesn't it?

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Once got nosy after reading a nurse's account from Mound City ( maybe Bucklin's? ) She'd tried to comfort a mother whose 7th- seventh!!! son lay dying in the hospital there. 7 in service, 7 lost. I wanted to see how unusual it was that so many from the same family served- found a tragic amount. It was crazy.

Then there was 6 foot Sarah, mother and step mother to ( I think ) 20! Must dig up the thread.