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Regtl. Quartermaster Shiloh 2020
Asst. Regtl. Quartermaster Antietam 2021
Regtl. Quartermaster Stones River / Franklin 2022
- Joined
- May 7, 2016
- Location
- Alabama
First of all I would like to give a BIG Thanks to @1stMS-Arty for finding this for me as I have been looking awhile. I got it the day I got to Vicksburg last week and did not have the time or the computer with me to get it readable so was unable to read it to the group and I wish I had. After a few days home I finaly got the chance and Boy is it a GOOD One. In order to understand it you need to know the back story and I'll give the sort version. Col. William H McCardle was on Gen Pemberton's staff during the CW and owned the Vicksburg Times before and after the war. He witnessed first hand the atrocities committed by the Gen Ord and the USCT on the people of Vicksburg. Gen Ord kept a book entitled "Black List of unreconstructed local citizen" which was on display in the courthouse museum. (my photos had to much glare and hopefully @Seduzal or @Nathanb1 got some) In 1867 the first US elections were held after the war and if you were in this book you could not register to vote much less run for office so off WH went. If you read, it he makes perfect sense as far as electing a local negro to office and all the stuff about the carpet baggers and yankee scallywags being the ruination of the post war South. This is the first one and Gen Ord had him arrested and then released with a warning, the second one which I hope @1stMS-Arty can find is the one which landed him in jail for 9 months and having his case heard and him winning in the US Supreme Court. As you can see by reading it he PO a lot of people. As you can see I come by it by blood.
I posted it in newpaper format and the last page is the bottom of the left hand column of the 3rd page in the post.
I posted it in newpaper format and the last page is the bottom of the left hand column of the 3rd page in the post.