farrargirl
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jul 9, 2017
While losing myself in the University of N.C. Digital Collections, I browsed through some early newsletters from the Greensboro Historical Museum. Here’s the 2014 issue that caught my eye : https://dcr.lib.unc.edu/record/uuid:aa9ae578-4568-4b53-bd8a-0f2fec267c31.
Edited to remove screenshot of copyrighted material. <The magazine article from Greensboro History includes a request for a donor to sponsor preservation of the kepi which belonged to Lt Col William S. Rankin. - mod>
Then, I had to take a look at Lt.Col. William S. Rankin’s military records.
promoted to Lt.Col/1 March ‘63....shot at Gettysburg/ 2 July/63......gunshot wd.rt.upper thigh...and...to abdomen...by a minie ball,
followed by a stay at Johnson’s Island until war’s end.
I was finishing up his cards in Fold3 when I saw all the letters folks wrote him.
Here’s one from somebody who cared a lot about him and our “Country”.....
( maybe this was the “Mildred” referenced in the newsletter)....
Edited to remove screenshot of copyrighted material. <The magazine article from Greensboro History includes a request for a donor to sponsor preservation of the kepi which belonged to Lt Col William S. Rankin. - mod>
Then, I had to take a look at Lt.Col. William S. Rankin’s military records.
promoted to Lt.Col/1 March ‘63....shot at Gettysburg/ 2 July/63......gunshot wd.rt.upper thigh...and...to abdomen...by a minie ball,
followed by a stay at Johnson’s Island until war’s end.
I was finishing up his cards in Fold3 when I saw all the letters folks wrote him.
Here’s one from somebody who cared a lot about him and our “Country”.....
( maybe this was the “Mildred” referenced in the newsletter)....
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