[mnehring]

Thanks, it was a recent discovery. We knew he died but we didn't know much because my great-grandmother left before the war and she was very odd (Rosicrucian/Illuminist, deep in the occult, so my very Christian family just boxed away her writings instead of exploring them..)

Recently an aunt found these articles and made the connection while doing a geneology search...

[Mr. Silverback]

I have never gotten arounfd to doing any geneology, and I harbor the hope that one of my ancestors was on Little Round Top with Joshua Chamberlain at Gettysburg when they saved the Union.