For some reason the surname 'Seals' sticks in my memory of Barrett researchers, but I can't fathom whom or why. So, I'm posting this 'Seals' story from the MS Civil War Message Board....perhaps one of our Barrett researchers will find it meaningful: ____________________________________________________ Lieutenant James M Seals, 42nd Mississippi Infantry Emily Sounder was one of the many volunteer nurses who worked so hard to relieve the suffering of many of the 21, 000 wounded left be hind at Gettysburg after the battle. And these nurses were, in fact, as kind to the Confederates as to their own men. On July 20, 1863, Ms. Sounder wrote her sister-law who lived in Philadelphia. In part, this missive reads: ........ I wrote a letter yesterday for Lieutenant Seal, of the 42nd Mississippi, a very interesting young man. On Wednesday morning last, we first visited the camp hospital of the Second Corps.....We had scarcely entered the field of labor when some one came and begged me to see a young Mississippi Lieutenant.....Lying on the ground, in front of one of the larger hospital tents, was a young man, whose face as I looked at him, seemed that of one of my own kindred; the same blue eyes, brown hair, and light complexion. With sorrow, I spoke of his coming North on the wrong side. A Massachusetts man in the tent eagerly answered for him: '' He could not help it; he is a good Union man at heart." This was Lieutenant Seals. In reply to my offer of service, he said I could do nothing for him. He was groaning in spirit, and suffering greatly, having been wounded in five places, and had also suffered amputation...Yesterday, I wrote his farewell message to his wife, which he was scarcely able to utter, even in a faint whisper. Lieutenant Seals died shortly afterwards and was buried in Yard b, 2nd row located on a hill between the Jacob Schwartz and George Bushman farmhouse. Unfortunately, by 1873, his grave was lost, and when 3,320 Confederate remains were shipped south between 1871 and 1873 his bones were unidentified. _______________________________________________________ The article is located at <http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com/august2002.htm> http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com/august2002.htm It tells of some of our men lost at Gettysburg........Karen, I know you'll enjoy many of these stories....there are some Alabama men there, too. R/Steven ........................................... S T E V E N M I T C H E L L