A Perplexing Civil War Soap Opera?

TerryB

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While trying to figure out who John Myers might have been (there were dozens), I found this. He's not the John Myers I have a CDV of, but this is pretty cool. This is a list of stuff his father uncle took him while in prison at Point Lookout.

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His mother writes of just having arrived from Savannah, Ga., after it fell. Apparently, J.K. Myers, who took the carpet bag to him in prison, was his uncle.
 
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His mother writes of just having arrived from Savanah, Ga., after it fell. Apparently, J.K. Myers, who took the carpet bag to him in prison, was his uncle.

I ask this supposing you are more knowledgeable than myself in this. Would you say from the lengthy and varied list of contents that this was a somewhat wealthy family? It seems rather hefty from a conquered family. Especially one which seems to have been refugeed in a way, but that's a pure guess on my part.
 
I ask this supposing you are more knowledgeable than myself in this. Would you say from the lengthy and varied list of contents that this was a somewhat wealthy family? It seems rather hefty from a conquered family. Especially one which seems to have been refugeed in a way, but that's a pure guess on my part.
They were probably middle class. Since the mother was, or seems to have been visiting relatives in Northampton, Mass, and trusted her letter to a clergyman from there [her father], it may have been a collection taken up by her relatives there. [edit] A look at census data shows the family had some means as early as 1860.
 
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John's military status remains murky. One record says that a man by that name, a citizen and prisoner, claimed to be in Imboden's Cavalry. John wrote a note in which he signed it, citizen and prisoner. [edit] Not him.
 
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They were probably middle class. Since the mother was, or seems to have been visiting relatives in Northampton, Mass, and trusted her letter to a clergyman from there, it may have been a collection taken up by her relatives there.

Thank you for the answer, makes good sense. Just checked out your blog, very cool. Would love to inquire sometime about being a postmodern Christian and the Iraq chaplain, I'm scratching my head on that:smile:
 
Thank you for the answer, makes good sense. Just checked out your blog, very cool. Would love to inquire sometime about being a postmodern Christian and the Iraq chaplain, I'm scratching my head on that:smile:
The chaplain said an LT in Iraq used a word he didn't want to repeat, saying "Chaplain, I want to know for sure that Jesus will be riding with me in my f-ing Humvee." I don't express myself that way, but I totally get it. Not your standard congregation.
 
Here's an expense account that I have no idea what John was being paid to do; [edit] Obviously not him.

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Since his mother was at Northampton, Mass., now I understand why his release order says he will be taken to Baltimore, where he will be allowed to travel to New York.
 

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