Posted on 07/03/2011 5:17:31 PM PDT by BigReb555
Fifty years had passed since the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1st- 3rd, 1863.
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Yep, they were retreating past the Seminary on their way to Little Roundtop where they would have the high ground.
BTW, 6/15/39 here you old fart.
Positive-they actually made a movie about her. “Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All”. Donald Sutherland was one of the stars, Diane Lane was the other. It was made in 1994. From what I remember about the story was this: sometime in early 1900’s a young woman about 17 or 18 years old married a former confederate soldier who was in his 70’s. I don’t know how long they were married, I think he dies in the 1920’s but she lived until sometime in the 1990’s. And yes she was very old when she died.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908934.html
Last Civil War widows
Pretty amazing. Civil War veterans lived to see several generations of motor vehicles and airplanes. WWI veterans have lived to see personal computers and iPhones.
My great-great-grandfather fought in the 95th PA. They were held in reserve at Gettysburg and didn’t enter the battlefield. He joined in 1861 at age 16, was wounded at Spotsylvania, and was at Appomattox. He died in 1924. We recently took the family to Gettysburg as my oldest just graduated college at a nearby school - that is certainly hollowed ground.
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If that were the case, I suspect that modern DNA testing would point to the stable hand.
At the age of 78, I would suggest that he was shooting a charge with out a minie ball loaded.
Nope, you are missing a generation.
He had a son very, very late in life. That son had children very, very late in life. That would have them having children in the 20’s or so. Not unusual, except for the ages of the daddys!
Bravo for them!
Union veteran (1862 enlistee) William Henry Jackson at the Gettysburg 75th anniversary reunion in 1938. Jackson was one of the last surviving Civil War veterans when he died in 1942 at age 99. (National Park Service Historic Photograph Collection)
[Rare Motion Pictures Show Civil War Veterans at the 75th Gettysburg Battle Anniversary Reunion
Submitted by Bob Janiskee on February 11, 2009 - 10:13am]
What the heck is Billy Gibbons doing in that picture all the way to the left end in the third row?
Didn’t Ben Franklin have a son when he was in his 80’s?
And The Greatest Generation, who prevailed through so much, who paid so dearly, must now in their twilight years endure Øbozo.
I think they fell back to Culps Hill here they built breastworks and aided in it’s defense. I don’t believe that they were ever at Little Round Top to assist the legendary efforts of the 20th Maine.
True. But, due to the fact that Tyler married a second time in 1844- and had a son born in 1853.The old boy fathered a son at 63 and died age 72 in 1862.
What is truly amazing is that Tyler today has two LIVING GRANDSONS through his son Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1853–1935). They are: Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Jr., was born in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler was born in 1928. Harrison Tyler lives at and maintains the ancestral family plantation home, Sherwood Forest, in Virginia.
Imagine what the country must look like to these two men, whose grandfather was President,and was born 14 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. A living history.
Deo Vindice.
Okay, that’s the best tagline I’ve seen in a long time.
Opps, I know you are correct. Will be there tomorrow. Only live an hour away. Taking relatives, as always.
I go about 30 times a year.
On the back road south there is BJ's ribs. The best rib place in PA.
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