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Son of ex-slave who served in Union army during Civil War dies 179 years after father's birth
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| 1/27/2015
| AP
Posted on 01/27/2015 7:40:15 PM PST by iowamark
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To: EternalVigilance
My father’s grandfather fought in the Civil War, on both sides. He joined up with irregulars on the Confederate side and fought at Shiloh Church and was captured and taken to Chase Prison camp. His brother and father came from what by then was West Virginia and he was paroled after they all promised to fight in the Union Army. He did and fought at Cedar Creek and one other battle close by I can’t remember. He later moved to Missouri where my grandfather and father were born.
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posted on
01/27/2015 8:58:36 PM PST
by
Mercat
To: iowamark
I believe Pres. John Tyler's grandson is still among the living. Saw a clip of a TV show, a “who am I” type of game show, with Audrey Meadows as one of the panelists. The person who they had on was at Fords Theater the night Lincoln was assassinated. The show must have aired around the late 50’s. If you do the math, it is possible that one person who was at Washington's inauguration could have met face to face during their lifetimes another person who attended Reagan's inauguration. It really brings to the forefront how young our country really is.
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posted on
01/27/2015 9:12:52 PM PST
by
gusty
To: iowamark
“Luke Martin Sr., who died at age 84 in 1920 when the son was just a few years old...”
Wow, Hugh Hefner before there was a Hugh Hefner. Still getting lucky at 83...long before Viagra.
To: iowamark
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posted on
01/27/2015 11:22:19 PM PST
by
Veggie Todd
(The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
To: Billthedrill
he would have been 80 at the birth.
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posted on
01/28/2015 12:27:00 AM PST
by
wiggen
(#JeSuisCharlie)
To: iowamark
I only have to live 11 more years to beat that record.
Im 76 now ao I have a good chance of making it since I can count on my 2 hands all my relatives that have died before 90 in the last 200 years.
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posted on
01/28/2015 12:41:09 AM PST
by
dalereed
To: Billthedrill
I couldn’t find it with a quick Google, but I believe Benjamin Harrison’s grandson just recently died. I remember reading it and thinking the same thing.
To: iowamark
A spouse, who was still receiving a pension check, passed away only a few years ago. Soldier married a young woman early in the 20th century and she lived into the 21st.
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posted on
01/28/2015 4:50:41 AM PST
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...
Wow.
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posted on
01/28/2015 5:21:22 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: All
"Civil War"...huh...what's that?
When we moved to GreenAcres 10 years ago, I was remarking to a new business colleague and brother in The LORD just how much I was enjoying being smack in the midst of a treasure trove of Civil War history, including being not far from the RR line where The General ran.
This brother, warmly but firmly (with tongue planted solidly in cheek) responded in his warm southern voice, "...son, we don't refer to it as 'The Civil War'...in these parts here, it's known as The War of Northern Aggression..."
Still makes me smile today and I'm proud to be the "token Yankee" friend of many area natives...
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posted on
01/28/2015 6:19:12 AM PST
by
Prov1322
(Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
To: iowamark
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posted on
01/28/2015 7:03:23 AM PST
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Mean Daddy
I couldnt find it with a quick Google, but I believe Benjamin Harrisons grandson just recently died. I think it's John Tyler and I believe one or two are still alive.
To: Prov1322
Ahem...FIRST War of Northern Aggression.
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posted on
01/28/2015 7:22:48 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you are not part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: Billthedrill
I read that and said no way, and then I did a little math. If a vet serving in his teens had sired a child in his 70s and that child had a long life, then Ill be dipped in spit, it absolutely could happen. Wow. It would not be that uncommon for a Civil War veteran with a pension to marry a much younger woman, who would take care of him during his old age in exchange for widow survivor rights to his pension. He might not even mind if she had a child by someone else, as long as she continued to take care of him.
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posted on
01/28/2015 7:23:50 AM PST
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: .45 Long Colt
https://buckeyemuse.wordpress.com/tag/betty-zane/
To: Prov1322
“The War Between the States”
To: AppyPappy
Ahem...FIRST War of Northern Aggression. LOL
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posted on
01/28/2015 7:36:39 AM PST
by
Prov1322
(Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
To: yarddog
Yep, black confederates showed up at a lot of the reunions....here are a few pics of confederate reunions which include black soldiers:
In 1913 Pennsylvania hosted a reunion for the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg. It is written that the hosts did not count on Black Confederates attending the meeting and had no place to put them but the White Confederates made room for their Southern brothers.
To: iowamark
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posted on
01/28/2015 9:52:30 AM PST
by
cyborg
(Still married...)
To: .45 Long Colt
Remember that scene in the Patriots. Awesome. People who made a difference we never heard of before. Like that girl from Connecticut on the horse.
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posted on
01/28/2015 10:41:50 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Je Suis Charlie. . GET IT OBAMA, OR DON'T YOU??)
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