Who published the book you mentioned in this post? and When? Where could one find a copy? Is it in a library? Melba -----Original Message----- From: Nicole Pinson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Friday, November 05, 1999 8:56 PM Subject: [ALCHEROK] Yankee Soldiers in Cherokee Co AL (1863?) >Does anyone know when the Yankees came through Cherokee Co? Was it >during Streight's raid in Apr/May 1863? > >The following is from "Stories of Cherokee County and some of the men >and boys that served in The War Between The States Sometimes called the >Civil War" by Dixie Clifton Miller > >"George ASHLEY [1890-1982], grandson of William ASHLEY who married Jane >SHAW relates that William ASHLEY who served in the War Between the >States was wounded in the battle at Chickamauga and died. George ASHLEY >said that he recalls his mother, Mrs. Joseph (Ella CHANDLER [1866-1956] >) ASHLEY telling about the Yankees camping at JORDAN's Grist Mill (some >may know as NEWBERRY Mill) for two weeks. The Yankees were enroute to >Rome in Georgia. Joseph ASHLEY [1857-1911] was eight years old. The >Yankees destroyed the grist mill and everything that was left by the >Confederate soldiers for their women and children was stolen or >destroyed. The Yanks killed a two year old heifer of Jane ASHLEYs and >cut the hind legs off and left the rest for the birds to eat. > >When the Yanks left their camping place, they left one morning about >daylight. Some, those on horseback rode close to the road in the woods >and those on foot took the road. Jane ASHLEY had cooked bread for her >children that morning and had a pitcher of milk on the table when the >foot soldiers came by and ate the bread and drank the milk not leaving >the children a bite to eat. Jane ASHLEY saw what was going to happen >and she got some of the food they had to cook and put it in a box and >sat down on the box until they passed through which was dark. But when >the next bunch came she wasn't so lucky. They took the pillow cases from >the pillows, sifted corn meal from the barrel into the pillow cases. One >soldier hung his sword up near a door while he sifted meal. Whit >[1858-1928], Jane ASHLEY's little boy, climbed up the door and was >reaching for the sword when Jane ASHLEY saw his intentions and ran to >grab the sword. When she pulled him away, the lad was sobbing, "I was >goin' cut his durn head off." > >Since the Yankees had destroyed JORDAN's Grist Mill and stolen all the >corn Jane ASHLEY had to take a hammer and beat the corn into meal. So >scarse was meal that she did not sift it. > >Wash ASHLEY [George Washington 1857-?] and his sister, Mary Jane (Molly) >[1858-1939] children of Aaron ASHLEY had some pet chickens. The Yankees >when they came by the Aaron ASHLEY place took a stick which they split >in the middle, but didn't split to the end, they pulled the split open, >stuck the chickens feet through the slit then released the split closing >the chickens feet inside the split place. Wash and Mary Jane cried so >and pleaded for their pet chickens that the Yanks told them to show them >their pet chickens. Wash did and the Yanks let their chickens go free. >They kept the rest. The other Aaron ASHLEY children, Jim [1864-1928], >John [1859-?], watched the goings on. [note: I don't think this can be >correct as James " Jim" ASHLEY was born at the end of the Civil War and >would have been too young to watch what was going on. nkp] > >Thanks! >Nicole Kilgore Pinson > > >==== ALCHEROK Mailing List ==== >ALCHEROK-L Mailing List Archives. Search by by name, etc. >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=alcherok >Cherokee County Alabama Web Page: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~alcherok/ >Listowner's Email address - [email protected] >