-----Original Message----- From: Barbara Buettner [mailto:buettner@hiwaay.net] Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 11:05 PM To: AL-CIVIL WAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: HELP Importance: High Hello, I hope someone can help me with my unusual plight. Am trying to join UDC to honor my ggGrandfather,ALFRED ELI BURNS,(Blount Co.) who has a CSA Marker saying he was a Blacksmith with AL TENTH CAVALRY. Know he joined CSA late in war & have a description of his service, ie, chasing Wilson & being captured by Union at Selma, AL. I can't find a record of him anywhere. Familylore is he mustered in at Danville, AL. His wife received a pension from her 1st husband who was KIA earlier in the war. So don't guess War Dept. found any records on Alfred Eli Burns either. Do you suppose the Union made a record of their captives at Selma? If anyone has any ideas, I'd surely appreciate your help. Barbara in Cullman

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Childree Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/794.2.2 Message Board Post: Do you know if the Young L Childree who died in the Civil War was the son of Drewy Childree born 1774 in Ga. In the 1850 Macon County census Young L Childree was 17 yrs old born Ga listed in the household of Drewy. In the 1860 census he was listed in 1860 census of Dale county as 26 yrs old born Ga wife Sarah E 26 yrs old and a son John D Childree three yrs old. Am trying to find who the sons of Drewy Childree [b 1774] of Macon Co GA were.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Goss, Caro, Boyett, Helton, Parker, Craft, Alexander, Watts, Stiggens, Nolen, Waggonner, O'Connell, Humphreys Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/794.2.1 Message Board Post: I have info on Rebecca, my great grandmother. I also have a few photos. We do not know the whole story, probably never will as to the circumstances. If your email is current, will send the stuff I have.So happy to hear from anyone with any information. Pam

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Atchley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/820.4 Message Board Post: Many Thanks for the great response & additional information. Lori

please don't send any mail for 9 days, i am going on vacation on 3/21. thanks L-CIVIL-WAR-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 AL-CIVIL-WAR-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 26 Today's Topics: #1 [AL-Civil-War] Re: Florence AL Reb [pittsaj14@hotmail.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from AL-CIVIL-WAR-D, send a message to AL-CIVIL-WAR-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the AL-CIVIL-WAR-D list administrator, send mail to AL-CIVIL-WAR-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: 17 Mar 2003 09:21:55 -0700 From: pittsaj14@hotmail.com To: AL-CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AL-Civil-War] Re: Florence AL Rebel Prison This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/820.3 Message Board Post: It's good to have the Florence issue settled. If you are interested in this ancestor, you may wish to look over the 4th Tennessee (U.S.) website: http://www.tngennet.org/civilwar/usacav/usa4cav.html Little has been written about the fighting near Newnan, which probably saved the town from destruction. Here's the historical marker for this battle: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/battlebrownsmillhistmarker.htm McCook's raiders were on the last leg of their mission and eager to cross the Chattahoochee River to safety. About 8:00 AM on July 30th the advance of the 8th Iowa Cavalry rode into Newnan to find Confederates blocking the way. This was an unpleasant surprise, since Wheeler's cavalry was pressing McCook's column from the rear. The Confederates were dismounted cavalry under Gen. Philip D. Roddey being sent by rail to reinforce Hood's army at Atlanta. They had been delayed because Rousseau's raiders tore up the tracks near Opelika two weeks earlier, and just happened to be in Newnan that morning. Gen. McCook realized that he would have to bypass the town and directed his column around the town. The delay allowed Wheeler's cavalry to overtake McCook's raiders, forcing them to stop and fight near Brown's Mill. The Confederates were badly outnumbered, but as Grant discovered in the Wilderness, superior numbers and weaponry count for less when your troops are tangled up in thickets. After bloody hand-to-hand fighting lasting most of the day, Union troops began surrendering in large groups late that afternoon. Someone else who happened to have an ancestor in the 4th Tennessee (U.S.) captured near Newnan that day has a web link. This man was sent to Andersonville GA; http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaappano/barrett.htm We have to distinguish 4th Tennessee (U.S.) from 4th Tennessee (C.S.) because both commands fought each other that day. Newnan today has twenty-two antebellum homes which survived the war due to the efforts of Generals Wheeler, Roddey, Humes and other Confederate cavalry leaders. If you're interested in reading more about this raid and others during July-August of 1864, find a copy of David Evans, "Sherman's Horsemen": http://members.aol.com/BookKritik/evansb.html Love and Light Namaste Linda --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!

please don't send any mail for 9 days, i am going on vacation on 3/21. thanks AL-CIVIL-WAR-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote:> ATTACHMENT part 1 message/rfc822 AL-CIVIL-WAR-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 26 Today's Topics: #1 [AL-Civil-War] Re: Florence AL Reb [pittsaj14@hotmail.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from AL-CIVIL-WAR-D, send a message to AL-CIVIL-WAR-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. To contact the AL-CIVIL-WAR-D list administrator, send mail to AL-CIVIL-WAR-admin@rootsweb.com. ______________________________ > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 Date: 17 Mar 2003 09:21:55 -0700 From: pittsaj14@hotmail.com To: AL-CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [AL-Civil-War] Re: Florence AL Rebel Prison This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/820.3 Message Board Post: It's good to have the Florence issue settled. If you are interested in this ancestor, you may wish to look over the 4th Tennessee (U.S.) website: http://www.tngennet.org/civilwar/usacav/usa4cav.html Little has been written about the fighting near Newnan, which probably saved the town from destruction. Here's the historical marker for this battle: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/battlebrownsmillhistmarker.htm McCook's raiders were on the last leg of their mission and eager to cross the Chattahoochee River to safety. About 8:00 AM on July 30th the advance of the 8th Iowa Cavalry rode into Newnan to find Confederates blocking the way. This was an unpleasant surprise, since Wheeler's cavalry was pressing McCook's column from the rear. The Confederates were dismounted cavalry under Gen. Philip D. Roddey being sent by rail to reinforce Hood's army at Atlanta. They had been delayed because Rousseau's raiders tore up the tracks near Opelika two weeks earlier, and just happened to be in Newnan that morning. Gen. McCook realized that he would have to bypass the town and directed his column around the town. The delay allowed Wheeler's cavalry to overtake McCook's raiders, forcing them to stop and fight near Brown's Mill. The Confederates were badly outnumbered, but as Grant discovered in the Wilderness, superior numbers and weaponry count for less when your troops are tangled up in thickets. After bloody hand-to-hand fighting lasting most of the day, Union troops began surrendering in large groups late that afternoon. Someone else who happened to have an ancestor in the 4th Tennessee (U.S.) captured near Newnan that day has a web link. This man was sent to Andersonville GA; http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaappano/barrett.htm We have to distinguish 4th Tennessee (U.S.) from 4th Tennessee (C.S.) because both commands fought each other that day. Newnan today has twenty-two antebellum homes which survived the war due to the efforts of Generals Wheeler, Roddey, Humes and other Confederate cavalry leaders. If you're interested in reading more about this raid and others during July-August of 1864, find a copy of David Evans, "Sherman's Horsemen": http://members.aol.com/BookKritik/evansb.html Love and Light Namaste Linda --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!

Thanks Diane. The last yankee widow died a few months ago http://www.biblenews1.com/history3/20030120.htm Heather

This may be of some interest to some........... <A HREF="http://www.lastconfederatewidow.com/">Last_Confederate_Widow</A> Dianne McCall

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/820.3 Message Board Post: It's good to have the Florence issue settled. If you are interested in this ancestor, you may wish to look over the 4th Tennessee (U.S.) website: http://www.tngennet.org/civilwar/usacav/usa4cav.html Little has been written about the fighting near Newnan, which probably saved the town from destruction. Here's the historical marker for this battle: http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/gahistmarkers/battlebrownsmillhistmarker.htm McCook's raiders were on the last leg of their mission and eager to cross the Chattahoochee River to safety. About 8:00 AM on July 30th the advance of the 8th Iowa Cavalry rode into Newnan to find Confederates blocking the way. This was an unpleasant surprise, since Wheeler's cavalry was pressing McCook's column from the rear. The Confederates were dismounted cavalry under Gen. Philip D. Roddey being sent by rail to reinforce Hood's army at Atlanta. They had been delayed because Rousseau's raiders tore up the tracks near Opelika two weeks earlier, and just happened to be in Newnan that morning. Gen. McCook realized that he would have to bypass the town and directed his column around the town. The delay allowed Wheeler's cavalry to overtake McCook's raiders, forcing them to stop and fight near Brown's Mill. The Confederates were badly outnumbered, but as Grant discovered in the Wilderness, superior numbers and weaponry count for less when your troops are tangled up in thickets. After bloody hand-to-hand fighting lasting most of the day, Union troops began surrendering in large groups late that afternoon. Someone else who happened to have an ancestor in the 4th Tennessee (U.S.) captured near Newnan that day has a web link. This man was sent to Andersonville GA; http://www.rootsweb.com/~iaappano/barrett.htm We have to distinguish 4th Tennessee (U.S.) from 4th Tennessee (C.S.) because both commands fought each other that day. Newnan today has twenty-two antebellum homes which survived the war due to the efforts of Generals Wheeler, Roddey, Humes and other Confederate cavalry leaders. If you're interested in reading more about this raid and others during July-August of 1864, find a copy of David Evans, "Sherman's Horsemen": http://members.aol.com/BookKritik/evansb.html

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/820.2.1.1 Message Board Post: It would have to be the Florence Stockade in SC. If captured he may first have been sent to Camp Sumter (Andersonville) and later shipped to Charleston and eventuallu Florence. In late Feb-early Mar 1865 prisoners were released from the Florence Stacokade. For more info look at the web site "Plymouth Pilgrims" (85th NY Inf).

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Atchley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/820.2.1 Message Board Post: My Noah was in Co L 4th Reg TN Cav. All of the military file Muster Roll cards have 4 Cav Tenn except for one which has 6 Cav Ind marked out w/4 Tenn Cav written above. Guess there was another Noah Atchley from Indiana along w/a few more Noah Atchley's from TN, both Union & Con. The Florence Stockade site info seems to tie the Military (Florence Ala confinement & parole) & Pension (captured near Newnan GA paroled NE Ferry NC) files together-- "sick & wounded prisoners were sent to NE Ferry Wilmington." This would assume the military file transcriber on Vol Descriptive List & also the Individual Muster-out Roll were wrong. The site does have a long list of further reading so maybe I can get some of these. Many Thanks for your help! Lori

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/820.2 Message Board Post: Looking at the Civil War Service Records, I find two separate Union cavalryman named Noah Atchley. Sgt. Noah Atchley of the 6th Indiana Cavalry (also apparently of the 4th Tenn. Cavalry) ... and ... Pvt./Sgt. Noah D. Atchley of the 16th Missouri Cavalry. Was one of these soldiers your g.g. grandfather? According to the first web site that I previously sent you, some members of both the 6th Indiana Cavalry and the 4th Tennessee Cavalry were imprisoned at this Florence, S.C. prison during the war. So if your g.g. grandfather was the first soldier listed above, I would say chances are pretty good that he was imprisoned at this Confederate POW camp in Florence, S.C. Mike

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/820.1 Message Board Post: There was a Confederate prison in Florence, S.C., so perhaps the transcriber made a mistake. See web sites below for more information on this prison. http://home.att.net/~florencestockade/friends.htm http://www.iowa-counties.com/authors/andersonville/jacket.htm Hope this helps. Mike Bailey

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Atchley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/820 Message Board Post: I have obtained the Civil War Military & Pension files of my gg grandfather Noah Atchley. The Volunteer Descriptive List states he was dismounted at the Battle of Newnan GA & captured near Atlanta GA 7-31-1864, confined in Florence Ala Rebel Prison & paroled at Florence Ala 3-5-1865. The Individual Muster-Out Roll 6-15-1865 states he was captured near Atlanta GA, confined in Rebel Prison at Florence Ala & paroled at Florence Ala 3-5-1865. I can find no additional information about a Confederate Prison in Florence AL. To further confuse the issue the Pension file (no title on page) states Prisoner of War Records show him captured at Atlanta GA 7-27-1864, paroled at NE Ferry NC 2-26 or 28-1865, sent to Camp Chase Ohio. Does anyone have any information about this Confederate prison in Florence AL? Many Thanks!

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xhC.2ACE/819 Message Board Post: General "Fighting Joe" Wheeler is one of my ancestors. I am trying to find out how he is related to my great grandfather, who is John Dolphus Wheeler (1851 - 1915). If anyone has informatin on General Wheeler's genealogy, I sure would appreciate learning it. Thanks!

In a message dated 3/8/2003 9:13:26 AM Central Standard Time, dabf@bellsouth.net writes: > Does anyone know whether there are any ongoing projects to identify > Confederate soldier's burial sites? > The Sons of Confederate Veterans sponsors a method for getting Confederate veterans burial information recorded via data entry into their mainframe computer. SCV camps, as well as individual members gather the pertinent date, record the data onto the SCV burial information form, and submit the form to SCV headquarters in Columbia, TN. Eventually this data will be available for public use free of charge. Contact any SCV member/camp for more information, or log on to <A HREF="www.scv.org">www.scv.org</A>. Glenn Jones Brig. Gen. Stand Watie SCV Camp 1303 Oklahoma I. T.

Mr. Frazier, My name is Ed Sims and I am in thr process of constructing just such a site as you describe. There is other information online that might help you also. I am now consulting with my ISP to provide the database capablities required for this. I don't have a firm deadline to go on line yet but will notify when the site is up and running. It will be hosted on http://1-800-csa.com I have over 500 current entries for the database that has been collected by various individuals over the last 60 years. Much of this information is, I believe, not to be found anywhere else. The site will be interactive. Much of the current information I have is incomplete and when a researcher finds a connection he/she will have the oppertunity to add information to what is now available as well as add completely new entries. Hope to be online shortly Ed Sims Valley Mills, TX 3/8/2003 9:13:13 AM, DABF <dabf@bellsouth.net> wrote: >Does anyone know whether there are any ongoing projects to identify >Confederate soldier's burial sites? > > D. A. Bass-Frazier > > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

Does anyone know whether there are any ongoing projects to identify Confederate soldier's burial sites? D. A. Bass-Frazier

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xhC.2ACE/811.3 Message Board Post: You are talking about Winston County, Alabama. For a story about the history of Winston County and the Unionist movement in North Alabama, check out a web site about the 1st Alabama Cavalry (union) at http://www.1stalabamacavalryusv.com Your specific question will be answered under the section about southern unionists. -Ryan Dupree

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Smith, Snipes Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/xhC.2ACE/818 Message Board Post: According to his application for a TX pension for indigent soldiers in 1914: Thomas Jackson Smith enlisted in Co. G, 6th AL Cavalry. Clanton's Brigade; Cpt. Hollingsworth, Col. Long[Lary?] He enlisted Aug 1862 and was paroled at war's end May 1865 in Tallegdega AL He was a Pvt. In 1914, he was 69, was born in Cobb Co. GA; had resided in TX since 1869, in Bell Co. since 1883. M M Roberts and G F Glenn swore they knew him personally since 1861, that the above statements of his service are true, that he was a good soldier etc. Glenn further stated he was in the army with TJ Smith and was a mess mate of his during the war. They were sworn in Haskell Co. TX. Family history says he was a POW in IN/WI depending on who told it, that he and a buddy walked home at war's end, hiding in trees from Yankees, via OK where he met his wife who was half Native American[this may have been the buddy's story, T J's wife was from MS and not Native American] I have searched muster rolls, and a few prison records at the National Archives and haven't been able to confirm any of the above. His gravestone in Greathouse Cemetery, Bell Co. TX gives his dates as 10 Oct 1846-16 Dec 1922. In 1860 Thomas, age 14, was with his family [father George Robert Smith, blacksmith] in Calhoun Co. AL Peaks Hill P.O. In 1870 Thomas, age 22, was with his brother, Henry, in Pontotoc Co. MS Tardyville P.O. In 1880 Thomas, age 32, was with his wife and 2 daughters in Union Co. MS. I would like some confirmation of his service, in what action he was taken prisoner, and where/when he was a POW? If he was paroled at Tallegdega, does that mean he was physically at Tallegdega? Thanks, Dorothy