To: Robert DeLong
I had two great-great GFers who were at Gettysburg.
One with the 29th Pennsylvania Volunteers and the other with the 18th Independent Battery, New York Light Artillery.
One hundred years later, I too was an artilleryman - in combat.
5 posted on
05/28/2021 8:23:13 AM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven
My great grandfather served in the NY cavalry saw action under Sheridan. Winchester and Wilderness and in between. Mustered out at the end of the war. He went to the 1913 event. I had fortunately a great uncle which wrote down all his adventures, put it in a book. Great stories there. He used to go down to Philly when he was much older and tell his stories to the street kids.
His rifle portrait and the key to libby prison hangs over my fireplace.
9 posted on
05/28/2021 9:40:24 AM PDT by
CJ Wolf
( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. )
To: oh8eleven
I too was an artilleryman - in combat.Thirteen bravo '68, A/1/92FA.
13 posted on
05/28/2021 10:48:15 AM PDT by
Chuckster
(Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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