Civil War Couples

[RebelCause]

Great photographs. Thanks for posting.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Thank you Pvt. Shattuck! This couple, are they from your tree? Doesn't he look awfully, awfully pleasant, the kind of person you'd want in your tent if you were forced to sleep in close quarters? I have a question ( who didn't see that coming? ). In your family, do you or anyone else tend to see family resemblences from these old pics? Just being nosy. We do, and like to feel we're not making it up. My eldest son looks SO incredibly much like my grandfather it is quite, quite silly- my mother and I see other resemblences too.I have a 3x grandmother who looks somewhat like myself- just kind of cool to see these people, all the other genetics mixed in by this point, somehing still makes it through.

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

James Theophilus Adams

Residence Wake County NC; a 21 year-old Businessman.

Enlisted on 5/29/1861 at Wake County, NC as a 2nd Lieutenant.

On 5/29/1861 he was commissioned into "D" Co. NC 26th Infantry
He was Surrendered on 4/9/1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA


He was listed as:
* Wounded 7/1/1862 Malvern Hill, VA (In the hip.)
* Returned 9/30/1862 (place not stated) (Estimated day.)
* Wounded 7/1/1863 Gettysburg, PA (In the left shoulder.)


Promotions:
* Capt 4/21/1862
* Major 7/1/1863
* Lt Col 9/1/1864 (Estimated date)


Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
* 7/1/1863 from company D to Field & Staff


Other Information:
born 9/7/1839 in Wake County, NC
died in 1918 in Holly Springs, NC

(Married Lucy Ann Beckwith of Wake County, NC)

After the War he lived in Holly Springs, NC

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

- North Carolina Troops 1861-65, A Roster
- Field Officers, Regiments & Battalions of CS Army
- Confederate Veteran Magazine
- Photo from Confederate Veteran Magazine
(c) Historical Data Systems, Inc. @ www.civilwardata.com
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Gettysburg after battle report:
Report of Capt. J. J. Young, quartermaster Twenty-sixth North
Carolina Infantry.

Near Gettysburg, Pa.,
July 4, 1863.
My dear Governor: I will trespass a few minutes upon your
indulgence to communicate the sad fate that has befallen the old
Twenty-sixth.

The heaviest conflict of the war has taken place in this vicinity.
It commenced July 1, and raged furiously until late last night.
Heth's division, of A. P. Hill's corps, opened the ball, and Pettigrew's
brigade was the advance. We went in with over 800 men in
the regiment. There came out but 216, all told, unhurt.

Yesterday they were again engaged, and now have only about 80
men for duty.

To give you an idea of the frightful loss in officers: Heth being
wounded, Pettigrew commands the division and Maj. [J.] Jones
our brigade. Eleven men were shot down the first day with our
colors; yesterday they were lost. Poor Col. Burgwyn, jr., was
shot through both lungs, and died shortly afterward. His loss is
great, for he had but few equals of his age. Capt. McCreery, of
Gen. Pettigrew's staff, was shot through the heart and instantly
killed; with them Lieut.-Col. Lane through the neck, jaw,
and mouth, I fear mortally; Adjutant [James B.] Jordan in the
hip, severely; Capt. [J. T.] Adams, shoulder, seriously; Stokes
McRae's thigh broken; Capt. [William] Wilson was killed; Lieut.'s
[John W.] Richardson and [J. B.] Holloway have died of
their wounds. It is thought Lieut. [M.] McLeod and Capt.
[N. G.] Bradford will die.

Nearly all the rest of the officers were slightly wounded. [I. A.]
Jarratt I had forgotten to mention--in the face and hand. Yesterday,
Capt. [S. P.] Wagg was shot through by grape and instantly
killed; Lieut. [G.] Broughton in the head, and instantly killed;
[Alexander] Saunders was wounded and [J. R.] Emerson left on the
field for dead.

Capt. [H. C.] Albright is the only captain left in the regiment
unhurt, and commands the regiment. Lieut.'s [J. A.] Lowe,
[M. B.] Blair, [T. J.] Cureton, and [C. M.] Sudderth are all of the
subalterns. Col. Faribault, of the Forty-seventh, is severely
wounded. Lieut.-Col. [J. A.] Graves and Maj. [A. D.]
Crudup supposed killed. Col. Marshall and Maj. [J. Q.] Richardson,
of the Fifty-second, supposed to be killed. Lieut.-Col.
Parks dangerously wounded; Col. Leventhorpe badly wounded;
Maj. Ross killed.

Our whole division numbers but only 1,500 or 1,600 effective men,
as officially reported, but, of course, a good many will still come in.
The division at the beginning numbered about 8,000 effective men.

I hear our army is generally badly cut up. We will fall back about
5 miles, to draw the enemy, if possible, from his impregnable position.

It was a second Fredericksburg affair, only the wrong way. We
had to charge over a mile a stone wall in an elevated position.

I learn the loss of the enemy is terrible. We have taken 10,000 or
15,000 prisoners in all. Yesterday, in falling back, we had to leave
the wounded; hence the uncertainty of a good many being killed
late yesterday evening. I must close.

Yours, truly,

J. J. YOUNG,
Capt., and Assistant Quartermaster.

His Excellency Gov. Zebulon B. Vance.

Source: Official Records: Series I. Vol. 27. Part II. Reports. Serial No. 44

 

[donna]

Been enjoying this thread so very much. Just wonderful photos.

 

[Pvt.Shattuck]

Family Resemblance?
The fellow below is Samuel "Ake" Shattuck who I believe was Willis Shattuck's (my avatar) cousin from Ohio. Next to him is my G Grandmother, Willis' daughter, Bertha Shattuck. Below Ake is the eponymously named Willis Shattuck, My GG grandfather Willis' living grandson, descended from his second marriage. And next to him is another cousin. What do you think?

 

[Pvt.Shattuck]

Another Civil War couple, and no one would bake them a wedding cake. Thank God today we have laws.

 

[Missouri Rebel]

 

[Pvt.Shattuck]

Elijah and Nancy Buchanan taken before the war. Elijah, Co I, 32nd VA Inf, died near the Dunker Church at Antietam on Sept 17th 1862.

 

[diane]

Another Civil War couple, and no one would bake them a wedding cake. Thank God today we have laws.
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Lol! True love just can't be judged! We had a mining couple like that when I was a kid called Mutt and Jeff. The tall one was around 5'7" and the small one was a dwarf. A tough dwarf at that! Great rodeo rider. They were always around town, sometimes with a huge Hupa gal stood about 6'3" and probably weighed over 300lbs! All of it muscle, by the way... She was the strongest woman I ever saw - once packed a jade boulder out of Happy Camp so big the mules couldn't handle it. Yikes!

 

[KansasFreestater]

Please excuse any repeats! It just means I must have liked them a LOT.
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Third from the bottom, the gentleman leaning on his wife's shoulder -- not typical at all for these portraits! <<melt, melt!>>
Also, the sixth one down, I do believe the young lady is sitting on the gentleman's lap! Also, not typical, and also: <<melt, melt!>>

 

[KansasFreestater]

Thank you Pvt. Shattuck! This couple, are they from your tree? Doesn't he look awfully, awfully pleasant, the kind of person you'd want in your tent if you were forced to sleep in close quarters? I have a question ( who didn't see that coming? ). In your family, do you or anyone else tend to see family resemblences from these old pics? Just being nosy. We do, and like to feel we're not making it up. My eldest son looks SO incredibly much like my grandfather it is quite, quite silly- my mother and I see other resemblences too.I have a 3x grandmother who looks somewhat like myself- just kind of cool to see these people, all the other genetics mixed in by this point, somehing still makes it through.

The genetic scramble can be really interesting. My doppelgänger is a second cousin, once removed.

 

[Boonslick]

Here are a couple of more well know CW era husband and wife images that I thought would be cool to collect a few years back. First is George McClelland and his wife Ellen Marcy McClelland-unknown photographer . The Robert E. Lee and wife, by Michael Miley, was taken just after the War when Lee was President of Washington College (Washington and Lee College), Lexington, Va.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Ha! Yes, I LOVE the whole weirdness of genetics, what pops up where and how-many-generations later! My son looks SO much like my grandfather, mannerisms and all it's insane- truly! He's even the exact, same height. I've had genetics explained to me, where this would literally be impossible- all I can say is well, OK, here are both men, what happened? We have a grgrgrandfather whose face has appeared in 2 of my sister's children- as in hugely, hugely similar. We wouldn't know that if we were not lucky enough to have photos. CL claims I look like a photo of my own 3x grandmother, which of course I'm not going to admit to- it's a very nice pic. Feel free to continue ' Genetic wierdness' stories, kind of a fan.

Thanks for the husband/wife photos or wife/husband, , always wished there were some Mr. and Mrs. R.L. Lee portraits of the era. I'm very smitten by her- think she gets a bad rap as a rather uninteresting sidekick to her iconic husband. She also became embittered of the African American population due to losing Arlington, so is written off as racist- which she became later but wasn't-she was extremely anti-slavery pre-war, was the other way out of hurt, really. I'm not being excusatory ( am I? ), she saw people she thought of as friends become part of the Union, picked up the other flag. Not an excuse- she's just one of few who I'm inclined to be understanding of, thinking well, if she could swing one way, bet she'd have gone back given the circumstances, too.

LOVE the Ellen stories, don't you? I'm terrible at repeating them, so will have to look them up, who was courting her, why her father preferred Little Mac ( and isn't it wonderful he's sitting in a chair for the photo, ' Little Mac'? ) over the other man, the soldiers all being aware of it? I'll bet Diane has that one at her fingertips, plus would tell it better anyway. That would be a hint- now all we can do is hope said Diane is browsing over in Ladies Tea. I'll whine, which is not attractive.

 

[JPK Huson 1863]

Elijah and Nancy Buchanan taken before the war. Elijah, Co I, 32nd VA Inf, died near the Dunker Church at Antietam on Sept 17th 1862.
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Whoa. You see these tintypes ( They're sometimes more haunting, think it's the dark background ), wonder what became of the people. Bet that is the Buchanon tartan she's wearing- weirdly we're Buchanons, too, from Nova Scotia although they're connected to PA, these clans came over, invited each other all over heck and back. Like there was Amtrak or something, amazing how people moved around.

Was this taken shortly before he left, do you know? How deeply sad these are, the photos with the wife, you look at the unsmiling faces. You know they had that long exposure time, so were told not to smile- just seems so prophetic, that's all, when ' Dunker Church ' is part of the conversation. ' Elijah ', one of yours, if I can be nosy ( there's a surprise ) ?

 

[Pvt.Shattuck]

No relation, I copied this photo from the Victorian Images FB page. Their dress suggests 1850s or even 1840s. I think it is their hands that make the image so interesting. They are awkwardly posed in stiff Victorian dignity but their affection for each other is evident anyway. Is it a tintype? It looks like a dag.
My ancestor's regiment, the 16th NY, was positioned at the Dunker Church on the afternoon of the 17th. They had rushed from a fierce battle at South Mountain to the sound of cannon at Antietam. Capt Newton Curtis, Co G, worked through the night helping wounded on the field and finally collapsed in exhaustion. He shared the blanket of what he thought in the dark was a sleeping NY soldier. When he awoke he found to his horror that he had spent the night laying next to a dead Rebel.

 

[diane]

Genetics really are strange. My cousin looks exactly like a cousin from the 19th century who was an artist. So is cousin! He liked horses, unripe peaches and fast carriage driving. Cousin likes horses, unripe peaches and has a lead foot! The only difference is cousin is a she. She has a unique way of standing with her heel against the instep of the other foot and the knee bent - nobody else does this except her 19th century cousin! In the only picture we have of him, he's standing exactly like that.

 

[diane]

Does anybody else feel the blood rushing to their heads? (In my case, the top of my question mark...) Hmmm... Somebody's up to sump'in around here!

 

[Pvt.Shattuck]

Captain and Mrs Franklin S Case 2nd OH Cavalry

 

[John Winn]

What a great collection; fascinating. Thanks to all who have contributed.

 

[John Winn]

Captain and Mrs Franklin S Case 2nd OH Cavalry
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I love the expression on her face. I imagine her thinking "my husband is a Captain and I have a new hat so there."