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Corporal
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2015
- Location
- Miamisburg, Ohio
Thank you. I'll go to it soon. Take care.More of his beautiful hand and literate writing can be seen on my website featuring his letters at:
https://wbp2ndpaha.wordpress.com/
Thank you. I'll go to it soon. Take care.More of his beautiful hand and literate writing can be seen on my website featuring his letters at:
https://wbp2ndpaha.wordpress.com/
Here's a relatively "new" picture of one of my GGGrandUncles. Lewis Massuere enlisted as a Private in the 3rd Independent Battery, Wisconsin Volunteer Light Artillery on Jan 1, 1862 at Berlin, Wisconsin. He became a driver for one of the battery's six guns (4 10pdr Parrott rifles and 2 12pder howitzers.) The unit just missed Shiloh as part of Buell's forces, then participated in the "Siege" of Corinth and Buell's advance on Chattanooga. At Perryville the unit saw no action with Crittenden's Corps, and at Stones River they guarded McFadden's Ford on 31DEC1862 with little action but on 02JAN1863 they were in the path of Breckenridge's charge. Withdrawing back to the west side of Stones River, they were put in Mendenhall's gun line and helped stop the attack cold. At Chickamauga, his unit fought at Viniard's Field on 19SEP1863, and on 20SEP1863 was again part of one of Maj Mendenhall's gun lines, but they were in the path of Longstreet's attack and lost 5 of 6 guns. PVT Massuere spent the rest of the war in garrison at Chattanooga or in Fortress Rosecrans back in Murfreesboro. He "veteranized" in JAN1864 and mustered out with his unit on 03JUL1865. After the war he married Eliza Shephard in Wisconsin and had eight children, of which Susan is pictured in the thumbnail here.
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Anna Carlson. Lived during the Civil War but in Sweden. Photo taken in Kalmar province about 1858. Immigrant 1872. Can anyone tell me anything about the clothes and jewelry in this picture? My great-great grandmother.
I can see the family resemblance.GGG Grandfather
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Darlington County Historical Commission 204 Hewitt Street Darlington, SC 29532 Office: 843-398-4710
Eli Odom Born 30 Oct 1822
Company/Regiment: 8th Regiment South Carolina Volunteers, Company A - Darlington Rifles
Date of Service: 31 Apr 1861
Date of Discharge: 12 Feb 1862
Elected First Lieutenant by his compatriots.
Served through the First Battle of Manassas (21 Jul 1861).
Contracted typhoid in camp after the battle.
Granted a medical discharge by Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin on (12 Feb 1862).
Elected tax collector for Darlington District on (21 Apr 1862).
Appointed Deputy Sheriff for Darlington District on (8 Feb 1864).
Obituary states Eli fathered 23 children (28 Jun 1888). Family Bible shows 19 children.
I can see the family resemblance.
What a great image. He has a South Carolina buckle on. Interesting mystery to solve...
I've been searching for a couple of years for my gg grandfather's photo. H.J.Cox. 16th Ga Reg. I'll keep an eye out for your ancestors photo. Why I responded is because I've seen that name in my genealogy somewhere and I think photo also. I'm not positive but I'll keep my eyes open in my research for my gg grandfathers photo.I have photos but they are all framed and hanging in my home. however i do wish i had a photo of one of my ancestors, 2nd Lt. John Hemphil McDaniel of the 6th South Carolina Infantry Co.F. If anyne could find a photo of him id be very thankfull.