Glad you see that you already have something to contribute to history. Take his works and put them together with info of the battles that he was in and the places he mentions and when it is all put together I bet it would be quite interesting to read. Susie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzanne Pickens" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [AL-PIKE] Re: First Alabama Infantry C.S.A. > Susie, I am sorry, I never saw the email, but I have so many projects > going right now and geneaology has been on the back burner that I could > have just deleted it, again, I am sorry. I am quite familiar with the > Southern Historical Press -- I went to grad school at USC and worked for > some time at the SC Archives managing the National Register. Like I said, > I thought the stuff was pretty cool, but it was just family stuff, no big > deal. My grandmother used to take it out and show it to us and tell us > about sitting on Uncle Pink's (Major Pinckard Wood) knee when he had on > his uniform for reunions. And she always told us he was the youngest > Major in the Confederate army (as yet unproven). > > It didn't really hit me that I actually had personal access to something > other people might be interested in or it would have been made public by > now. You know when you are a researcher, you always have that dream that > you are going to find something no one's ever seen before, it never > occurred to me maybe I had. > > I know I'm babbling, I've just wanted this diary and the letters to mean > more than gggrandpa's scribbling, but no one ever seemed interested. > > As for a copyright, like I said, no one has really known the papers > existed until now. I can do a heck of a footnote for any kind of original > document, but I know nothing about copyrights. As a historian, I want the > information to be available as widely as possible. I would also like to > be involved in how it is presented and I think family information on Capt. > Wood would be useful to understanding his feelings and beliefs. This is > not going to answer any big questions, but it is a record of a Confederate > soldier's love of country, family, God, his comrades and his experiences > while defending them. And I want the information, when used, to be > properly credited. > > So again, please forgive my babbling -- it will take a little while to > shift into historian mode. And thank you for showing an interest in > gggrandpa's scribblings. > > Suzanne Pickens > > > ==== ALPIKE Mailing List ==== > Share your Pike Co. Records (and other counties): > http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ > >