Posted on 07/12/2002 6:31:15 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
From afar, or more precisely through a pair of Union Army field glasses, it could be a Rodman naval gun or Columbiad, the kind of iron firepower that could jolt the ground and make a Civil War soldier consider other lines of work.
Up close, it looks like what it is: a crudely shaped log with some black paint slapped on. And that's exactly what Dave Purschwitz was pushing into place yesterday at Mayfield Fort in Manassas.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
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CCC Instructor Has Third Book Published Cleveland Community College electronics engineering technology instructor, Mark Hughes, recently published his third book, entitled "Confederate Cemeteries." Over 200,000 Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War, but no one has ever compiled a listing of their names.
In this Volume 1, Hughes includes the names of over 9,500 soldiers and civilians buried in 30 cemeteries throughout Virginia. Information about each soldier includes the soldier's name, company, regiment, state, and date of death or burial.
Hughes utilized materials from state archives, The Library of Congress, The National Archives, and university library collections while conducting research. In addition to burial rosters, the book includes cemetery history as well as an overview of the struggle that faced southern women who buried soldiers of the "Lost Cause."
Just to keep the record straight here, McClellan wasn't in command of the Union forces at First Manassas ... that was Gen. Irwin McDowell.
both sirena & i would like to know what happened to the rebel POWs in OUR families at PLPOWC.
for prison TRUTH & ancestor REMBERENCE,sw
the 3,500 PoWs listed as DOW, died of disease and/or starvation by the yankee war department are about 15% of the total of the TOTAL number of deaths at PLPOWC.
the other 85% are listed as "mysteriously disappearred" (they are listed on the prisoner manifest as ARRIVED @ PL, but NOT admitted to the prison population.), i.e. MURDERED!
as one simple example, there are 4 persons surnamed Freeman,as POWs at PLPOWC on that list and 5 OTHER POWs surnamed Freeman listed as died in captivity on the PL memorial plaque; in other words the list is a LIE, nothing more,nothing less.
NONE of the Indians in MY family who were sent there ever officially were prisoners-they were evidently killed before admission, as most Confederate Indian & Black POWs were.
for prison TRUTH & ancestor REMBERENCE,sw
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