Robin Evans
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- Joined
- Jun 4, 2015
- Location
- Tennessee
Tell me a story about something that happened in your family during the war. One that has been passed down through the generations.
Tell me a story about something that happened in your family during the war. One that has been passed down through the generations.
Great stories!My great-great-great-uncle, Lorenzo "Ren" Dow Headley, according to family tradition, was personally shot by Confederate General John Hunt Morgan.
Great stories!
Funny how almost everyone has a Lorenzo Dow in their family. You're probably aware that he was a traveling Methodist preacher who was quite popular in the early 1800s.
That story has a ring of truth to me. Except that it's South Fulton, TN and Fulton, Ky. I've been there several times. Back in the 70s, you could drink at 18 on the TN side, but not until 21 on the KY side. So you had to be careful which side of the street you walked on.My Dickerson cousins lived in Fulton, Tennessee, which at that time was a substantial river town just south of Fort Pillow.
Well, you know what they say. Methodists are just Baptists who will speak to each other in the liquor store. LOL!I've heard that, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, since as far as I know, that branch of the family was Baptist!
I'm sure that is true!(Another branch of the Headleys ran a "station" on the Underground Railroad in Greene County, Pennsylvania, in the very southwest corner of the state. According to a book I have, there's a small complex of caves that at least at one time was named "N----r Rock" because of it.)
"The River Runs Through It" has a line I've always laughed at. "A Methodist is a Baptist who can read." Not cute by current PC standards, but I thought it was funny.Well, you know what they say. Methodists are just Baptists who will speak to each other in the liquor store. LOL!
That's actually a great story! Too often, the stories of the citizens who lived through it are kind of lost between those of valor and despair of battle. I've told the story of how the Greens lost their ancestral home, Flamstead Hill, in VA. Although they supported the Confederacy, they never owned slaves (they had share croppers instead). And Charles Brimer Green didn't join the fight. Yet, they suffered and eventually lost everything just the same.Sorry. No stories. My great grandfather was 50 and had 7 kids when the war broke out.
http://civilwartalk.com/threads/wha...other-interesting-things.111489/#post-1085234
My husband's great grandfather was also Lorenzo Dow.
LOL! I think most Methodist and Baptists are pretty good natured about the ribbing. At least this Methodist is. The more free speech the better!"The River Runs Through It" has a line I've always laughed at. "A Methodist is a Baptist who can read." Not cute by current PC standards, but I thought it was funny.
What a wonderful story! I have it on good authority from the written account of my husband's 4th great grand uncle, Senator F. B. Ragland, who was a member of the TN Legislature during the "revolution" as it was called, that Confederate forces did, in fact, burn the crops in the fields to keep the Yankees from profiting from them. So your story has some truth to it and it is possible that it happened the way it was reported. What a daring lad!My great-grandfather, George William Ralston (1848-1931), lived with his family near Jefferson City, Missouri. Sometime early in the war, when he was 13 or 14, Confederate troops were retreating through the area and confiscated all the livestock they could find to prevent them from falling into Union troops' hands....