Tag: #solivagant
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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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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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