Category: Confederacy
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A Tennessean Union Death
Jasper Newton Bare, my first cousin 4th removed from our grandparents Samuel Fry and Nancy Blythe, died in the first Battle of Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign: Battle of the Resaca. Jasper was one of 158,787 soldiers, including his younger brother James., on what became the second bloodiest battle of Sherman’s march to the sea. I found…
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New Orleans when it wasn’t easy
“…respectfully request for a pardon of six hours a day for the purpose of exercising in New Orleans” wrote Lt Henry M McClendon as a prisoner in the U. S. Customs House in New Orleans. A neighbor to my 2xgreatgrandUncle George M. Hill. both men had been captured, Henry on Nov 22, 1863 at Camp…
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A Diet of Rats and Mules
“Rats, of which there were plenty about the deserted camps, were also caught by many officers and men, and were found to be quite a luxury–superior, in the opinion of those who eat them, to spring chicken,” wrote Howard C Wright, a New Orleans newspaperman and current soldier in the 30th Louisiana Infantry a couple…
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“Mud Fort” at Sabine Pass
Driving east to Louisiana Civil War sites from Galveston last week I still had Confederate General, “Prince John” B. Magruder on my mind. Hoping to see more ocean/river than tourist streets/restaurants I was eager to explore https://thc.texas.gov/historic-sites/sabine-pass-battleground I was not disappointed. Just as before-the-Civil War, I was greeted with the confluence of railroad to move…
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Four Die-Hard Texas Family Lines Sign Up for the Texas Civil War
Mom, in 2007, sent me a photo of a Civil War soldier with the note: “Who is this person?” In finding the answer (Marquis Delcassas Frie, her great grandfather) I discovered that her Hill, Howeth, Fry, and Williams families arrived shortly after the Texas Revolution and received land grants in the new Republic. They and…
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