In a message dated 1/3/04 12:15:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, eharding2@cox.net writes: When I first wrote about posting articles from old newspapers, I neglected to tell you the sources I was getting them from. I found two excellent books containing them. The books are: Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History of the Civil War from Nat Turner to 1863 (Volume I) Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History of the Civil War from 1863 - 1865 (Volume II) Edward: Great information! If I may kibitz on Edward's E-mail, among this genre I would also recommend the edited works of William B. Styple. These books are: "Writing and Fighting the Civil War: Soldier Correspondence to the New York Sunday Mercury" "Writing & Fighting from the Army of Northern Virginia: A Collection of Confederate Soldier Correspondence." I have not had a chance to read the third of his trilogy, a work called "Writing & Fighting the Confederate War: The Letters of Peter Wellington Alexander." But I suspect it is as worthy as the other two. Forward the Colors! Sincerely, Mike Peters npeters102@aol.com

Edward has mentioned one of my favorite CW books, "In Care of Yellow River." made all the more interesting to me because my Cain ancestor of the 42nd GA Inf Reg was, also, from Gwinnett County, GA! But I thought I'd send along two books, both very well done, concerning the women of the era. The first, "With Courage and Delicacy: Civil War on the Peninsula; Women and the U.S. Sanitary Commission" by Nancy Scrpture Garrison is the story the Commission and its volunteer nurses told, for the most part, in their own words, through their letters. The unfailing courage of these ladies was remarkable, as was the openness and candor with which they wrote about their experiences. This book is written from a Northern perspective, but dwells very little on the "politics" of war and more on the concern for the wounded. I believe it would be of interest to anyone who had ancestors engaged in the Peninsula Campaign. The second is a book about the lives of Southern women on the homefront during the war, "Mothers of Invention" by Drew Gilpin Faust. It draws on letters and diaries, etc., to give a rich view of the lives of Southern women during the Civil War. I felt as if I knew my Southern female ancestors much better after reading this book. And, if there are any of you who enjoy tales of adventure and espionage, I have an unusual book to recommend: "Secret Missions of the Civil War; First-hand accounts by men and women who risked their lives in underground activities for the North and the South" by Philip Van Doren Stern. Nancy

Yes they are and between you and me we will have reprinted the two volumes Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Harding" <eharding2@cox.net> To: <CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 11:14 AM Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] Something of Interest? > Hi List, > > When I first wrote about posting articles from old newspapers, I neglected to tell you the sources I was getting them from. I found two excellent books containing them. The books are: > > Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History of the Civil War from Nat Turner to 1863 (Volume I) > > Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History of the Civil War from 1863 - 1865 (Volume II) > > All of the material in the books comes from the collection of Eric C. Caren. I know some of the spelling in the articles isn't correct, but I am writing them to the list just as they were written and published back then. Sometimes it takes a while to do an article because the print is so tiny, and most times I have to use a magnifying glass to read them. I thought that due to so many modern day interpretations of things that happened back then, it would be good to share some of these articles as they were written in the 1860's. From the writing, you can certainly tell they are biased toward the North or South, depending on what paper it is. > > I also wanted to mention a couple of other books that are very good reading. These books are "Weep Not For Me, Dear Mother" and "In Care of Yellow River," by Elizabeth Whitley Roberson. The first book contains portions of letters written home to Susan Landers, by Private Eli Pinson Landers, her son. The second book contains the complete set of letters as he wrote them. The beginning of the Preface of the first book is most interesting and I wanted to share it with you. > > " The day I came into the possession of a bundle of letters written by Eli Pinson Landers to his mother, Susan Landers, little did I realize what was in store for me. For finding out who Eli Landers was, has led me on a veritable treasure hunt through six states, from the Civil War battlegrounds in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to Eli's beloved Gwinnett County homeplace in the hill country of North Georgia. > It was through the most unlikely and fortuitous combination of coincidence and sheer luck that the letters reached me at all. In truth, I cannot help feeling that they were somehow meant to fall into my hands--into the hands of a historian who could understand and appreciate them and who would write about them. > How did Eli Landers' correspondence reach me? The story begins in the mid-1960's, in Atlanta, Georgia. I was told that "a woman" - someone whose name I have never been able to learn - noticed a sheaf of stained, yellowed letters in a pile of trash on a street in Atlanta. The letters interested her. She picked one of the letters up and was immediately struck by the fine penmanship so typical of other eras. The letter was undoubtedly very old, she knew. The she saw the date at the top of it and realized that it had been written during the time of the Civil War. She carefully gathered all of them up and took them home with her. > One home, Eli Pinson's rescuer no doubt read through the correspondence and realized its intrinsic interest. Yet she did not know quite what to do with these fragile documents in which a young voice spoke so clearly and poignantly of a time long past. Later on, she moved to Raleigh, North Carolina and carried the letters with her. There in Raleigh, she became acquainted with young Ricky Mobley, the son of a neighbor and a boy whom she knew to be interested in the history and things historical. She decided to give the letters to him since he would, she felt, appreciate and understand them. > A few years later, the Mobleys moved back to their home in Williamston, North Carolina, bringing the letters with them. They packed them away in a closet where they stayed for several more years. One day in the fall of 1989, Ricky's mother, Nellie, knowing of my interest in the Civil War, called me and asked if I would like to see the letters. > I went to get them immediately, and much to my surprise, found not just a small bundle of letters, as I had expected, but a bag full, numbering about one hundred in all. I realized very quickly that just reading the letters in a random order was quite confusing, so I began sorting them into chronological order. > The first letter, dated August 11, 1861 was written on the morning Eli left home after he had enlisted in Howell Cobb's regiment, the Flint Hill Grays. After completing my task, I found that the letters abruptly ended in 1863. > The more I read the letters, the more I realized that I must find out everything I could about their author - who he was, what he was like, who his family was, and most importantly, why the letters stopped so suddenly in 1863. > I first wrote to the National Archives in Washington, DC requesting any information they could give me about Eli Pinson Sanders. When they responded, they said that they has not only his service record, but his pension records as well. From that bit of information, I surmised that if he had applied for a pension, he must have survived the war. The day the records arrived, I could hardly wait to read them, but my joy was short-lived, however, when I realized that the Eli Landers' pension records were for another man by the same name. "My" Eli's service record indicated that he died just after the last letter was written. > My search for Eli Landers had only begun, however, and my sights turned to Gwinnett County, Georgia, a place he mentioned so many times in his letters. I found a directory of newspapers in America and located the names of two papers published in the county, The Gwinnett Daily News and the Gwinnett Home Weekly. I wrote to the editors of both papers asking them to publish my letter requesting relatives of the Landers family to contact me. In about a week, I received a call from Evelyn Mays. When she said she was calling from Lilburn, Georgia, my heart sang, for I knew the connection had been made. In my preliminary research on Gwinnett County, I had found that Lilburn was the name given to the little community of Yellow River where Eli lived. Evelyn Mays told me that her great-grandmother, Elizabeth, has been Eli's sister and that she had information about the family that she would like to share with me if I could go down to Georgia. > In a few weeks, I was able to make the trip to Lilburn, where I met several members of the family and located the little log cabin that had been the home of Eli's mother, Susan McDaniel Landers. I also found the Sweetwater Church he mentioned so often in his letters, as well as the little graveyard where he was buried. > I shall never forget my feelings that day as I stood by the small, neglected headstone. It was so covered in green moss that the name Eli P. Landers was barely visible. I felt that this boy, who gave up so much fighting for a cause in which he believed so strongly, should have had a monument befitting his sacrifice. I remembered that in one of his last letters to his mother that he had asked that, if he should die, to have a tombstone engraved, not only with his name, but also with his dates of service to the Confederacy and a list of all the battles in which he had fought. Apparently, due to lack of money, his request had not been honored. > It is difficult to describe my feelings as I looked out on the green pastures behind Eli's grandmother's cabin remembering how he stated over and over again in his letters that his greatest wish was to come back and again roam those fields in Gwinnett County on his mare Kate, and to tend the little farm with his mother and sisters. Eli's request was such a simple one, but, sadly, one that could not be fulfilled. I came back to North Carolina feeling somehow that I knew Eli a little better since I had actually seen his home and the fields he so lovingly described. > While I was in Lilburn, a reporter from the Daily News interviewed me. When the article was published, the story was picked up by the Associated Press, taking it into Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. So, my next call came from Mary Landers Shelton in Jacksonville, Alabama, whose great grandfather had been Eli's half-brother, Humphrey Davis Landers. She invited me for a visit, so I headed south again. I spent several days there in North Alabama meeting more members of the Landers family and collecting photographs of the family and pictures of Eli's brother's old homeplace. > After making contact with the family, I set out to retrace Eli's path though the battle sites in Virginia. He first stop had been in Richmond, where he described to his mother all the things he saw there, among which were statues of George Washington and Henry Clay. I found the same statues, and as I stood looking up at the statue of Washington as Eli said, "standing on a stack of fine rock", I could just imagine how this young farm boy, away from home for the first time, must have felt as he looked up at the same massive piece of granite. > My next trip was to Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville where Eli lived and fought in the winter of 1862. I stood there "behind the stone wall," trying to picture that awful carnage that Eli described so vividly. I saw the "sunken road" and wondered how Eli must have felt seeing so many dead and dying soldiers there. > Later, I visited the Peninsula near Yorktown where Eli Landers' regiment met the Union army at the battles of Lee's Mill and Damn Number One. Even though a large housing project is now encroaching on the Lee's Mill site, there was enough of the earthenworks remaining when I visited the area to see the Confederates' position there. At the Dam I saw the same water-filled trenches in which the Georgia regiment had to stand for days on end without fire or shelter. > One last visit to Virginia took me to northern Virginia to find Crampton's Gap at South Mountain to see for myself what kind of terrain Eli's regiment had to cross. The drive from Richmond took four hours in my car, while Eli describes thirteen days of hard marching to cover the same ground. It was very serene there on the snow covered slopes of South Mountain the day I visited the site. What a contrast with that day in the fall of 1862 when over two thirds of Eli's regiment was killed on those same slopes! > Before I could actually finish writing Eli's story, I felt that in order to make my research complete, I must visit the battlefield of Gettysburg. Thought there were no letters describing the battle, there was in with the letters a small penciled note describing the route he took in getting there. This then was the route I traveled as well. I knew that as a part of Wofford's Brigade, Eli's regiment participated in the second day's battle which was fought at the peach orchard, through the wheat field, to the forbidding rocks of the Devil's Den. That battle was fought on July 2nd, 1863. I visited the area on July 12th, 1991 when the temperature was nearly one hundred degrees, so experiencing the terrible heat alone helped me better understand the hardships the troops must have endured there. > After collecting all the photographs and background material I could find on the Sixteenth Georgia Regiment, I began to write Eli's story, using his letters to give life to the abstract account of the events of the war. > Because the article in the Gwinnett paper quoted Eli's request for a tombstone, Jimmy Dodd, a member of the 5th Missouri/9th Georgia group of re-enactors there in Lilburn, called me and said that his regiment wanted to erect a new stone for Eli in keeping with the one he had requested in 1863. Jimmy had a double interest in the project, since he not only wanted to honor a Civil War soldier's request, but also to honor his own wife, Theresa, a descendant of Eli's brother James Landers. So, on September 23, 1990, one hundred and twenty seven years after his death, I had the honor of attending a special memorial service and dedication of the new tombstone for Eli Landers at the Sweetwater Church he loved so much. With the traditional twenty-one gun salute over his grave, Eli was finally given the honors he so richly deserved. > I thought surely nothing else in my search would be as thrilling as that ceremony, but a few weeks after I returned home, I received a photograph from a descendant of Eli's sister, Adaline, who said that it just might be of Eli, but he couldn't be positive about it. By using a clue I had picked up in one of Eli's letters to his mother, I was able to confirm that the photograph was indeed one of Eli Landers. Eli had written of an ambrotype he had had made for his mother after he arrived in Richmond, saying that he had written his name on his cartridge box. With the aid of a magnifying glass, I found his initials, EPL plainly visible, just as he had described them to his mother. How happy I was to finally see the person I had gotten to know so well through a bundle of old letters. The young face, the strong hands, the sensitive eyes all bespoke those qualities I had sensed in his letters. His devotion to his family, his history of hard work in the red clay fields of G! > eorgia, his honesty and integrity, were all mirrored in his photograph, and he almost seemed to reach out to me from its frame to say, "Thank you for telling my story." " > > As I live in Washington, NC and only about 25 miles from Williamston, I have met Mrs. Roberson and talked with her on numerous occasions. It was absolutely amazing to hear her tell of all the things she did to make this story a complete one. In her second book, "In Care of Yellow River," Mrs. Roberson tells in the foreward what finally happened to these letters: > > " In making the decision as to where the original letters should be put, I felt that Eli would have wanted them to "go back home," so with the permission of Mrs. Nellie Mobley, who had loaned them to me, I gave them to the Gwinnett County Historical Society in Lawrenceville, Georgia, in whose possession they rest today." > > The letters are now held in a fireproof vaulted safe for safe keeping. >From what I understand, family members are the only people to have access to these letters now. As for the two books, I feel very fortunate to have a signed copy of each for my home library. If any of you should find either of these two books, I would suggest reading them. These first hand accountings of the War are priceless and so very interesting to read! > > I truly hope I haven't taken up too much of everyone's time with this, but I thought some of the list members might find some of this of interest. > > Edward > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from list mode, email CIVIL-WAR-L-REQUEST@rootsweb.com > and in the text area of the message, type only the word > unsubscribe > > >

Hi List, When I first wrote about posting articles from old newspapers, I neglected to tell you the sources I was getting them from. I found two excellent books containing them. The books are: Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History of the Civil War from Nat Turner to 1863 (Volume I) Civil War Extra: A Newspaper History of the Civil War from 1863 - 1865 (Volume II) All of the material in the books comes from the collection of Eric C. Caren. I know some of the spelling in the articles isn't correct, but I am writing them to the list just as they were written and published back then. Sometimes it takes a while to do an article because the print is so tiny, and most times I have to use a magnifying glass to read them. I thought that due to so many modern day interpretations of things that happened back then, it would be good to share some of these articles as they were written in the 1860's. From the writing, you can certainly tell they are biased toward the North or South, depending on what paper it is. I also wanted to mention a couple of other books that are very good reading. These books are "Weep Not For Me, Dear Mother" and "In Care of Yellow River," by Elizabeth Whitley Roberson. The first book contains portions of letters written home to Susan Landers, by Private Eli Pinson Landers, her son. The second book contains the complete set of letters as he wrote them. The beginning of the Preface of the first book is most interesting and I wanted to share it with you. " The day I came into the possession of a bundle of letters written by Eli Pinson Landers to his mother, Susan Landers, little did I realize what was in store for me. For finding out who Eli Landers was, has led me on a veritable treasure hunt through six states, from the Civil War battlegrounds in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia to Eli's beloved Gwinnett County homeplace in the hill country of North Georgia. It was through the most unlikely and fortuitous combination of coincidence and sheer luck that the letters reached me at all. In truth, I cannot help feeling that they were somehow meant to fall into my hands--into the hands of a historian who could understand and appreciate them and who would write about them. How did Eli Landers' correspondence reach me? The story begins in the mid-1960's, in Atlanta, Georgia. I was told that "a woman" - someone whose name I have never been able to learn - noticed a sheaf of stained, yellowed letters in a pile of trash on a street in Atlanta. The letters interested her. She picked one of the letters up and was immediately struck by the fine penmanship so typical of other eras. The letter was undoubtedly very old, she knew. The she saw the date at the top of it and realized that it had been written during the time of the Civil War. She carefully gathered all of them up and took them home with her. One home, Eli Pinson's rescuer no doubt read through the correspondence and realized its intrinsic interest. Yet she did not know quite what to do with these fragile documents in which a young voice spoke so clearly and poignantly of a time long past. Later on, she moved to Raleigh, North Carolina and carried the letters with her. There in Raleigh, she became acquainted with young Ricky Mobley, the son of a neighbor and a boy whom she knew to be interested in the history and things historical. She decided to give the letters to him since he would, she felt, appreciate and understand them. A few years later, the Mobleys moved back to their home in Williamston, North Carolina, bringing the letters with them. They packed them away in a closet where they stayed for several more years. One day in the fall of 1989, Ricky's mother, Nellie, knowing of my interest in the Civil War, called me and asked if I would like to see the letters. I went to get them immediately, and much to my surprise, found not just a small bundle of letters, as I had expected, but a bag full, numbering about one hundred in all. I realized very quickly that just reading the letters in a random order was quite confusing, so I began sorting them into chronological order. The first letter, dated August 11, 1861 was written on the morning Eli left home after he had enlisted in Howell Cobb's regiment, the Flint Hill Grays. After completing my task, I found that the letters abruptly ended in 1863. The more I read the letters, the more I realized that I must find out everything I could about their author - who he was, what he was like, who his family was, and most importantly, why the letters stopped so suddenly in 1863. I first wrote to the National Archives in Washington, DC requesting any information they could give me about Eli Pinson Sanders. When they responded, they said that they has not only his service record, but his pension records as well. From that bit of information, I surmised that if he had applied for a pension, he must have survived the war. The day the records arrived, I could hardly wait to read them, but my joy was short-lived, however, when I realized that the Eli Landers' pension records were for another man by the same name. "My" Eli's service record indicated that he died just after the last letter was written. My search for Eli Landers had only begun, however, and my sights turned to Gwinnett County, Georgia, a place he mentioned so many times in his letters. I found a directory of newspapers in America and located the names of two papers published in the county, The Gwinnett Daily News and the Gwinnett Home Weekly. I wrote to the editors of both papers asking them to publish my letter requesting relatives of the Landers family to contact me. In about a week, I received a call from Evelyn Mays. When she said she was calling from Lilburn, Georgia, my heart sang, for I knew the connection had been made. In my preliminary research on Gwinnett County, I had found that Lilburn was the name given to the little community of Yellow River where Eli lived. Evelyn Mays told me that her great-grandmother, Elizabeth, has been Eli's sister and that she had information about the family that she would like to share with me if I could go down to Georgia. In a few weeks, I was able to make the trip to Lilburn, where I met several members of the family and located the little log cabin that had been the home of Eli's mother, Susan McDaniel Landers. I also found the Sweetwater Church he mentioned so often in his letters, as well as the little graveyard where he was buried. I shall never forget my feelings that day as I stood by the small, neglected headstone. It was so covered in green moss that the name Eli P. Landers was barely visible. I felt that this boy, who gave up so much fighting for a cause in which he believed so strongly, should have had a monument befitting his sacrifice. I remembered that in one of his last letters to his mother that he had asked that, if he should die, to have a tombstone engraved, not only with his name, but also with his dates of service to the Confederacy and a list of all the battles in which he had fought. Apparently, due to lack of money, his request had not been honored. It is difficult to describe my feelings as I looked out on the green pastures behind Eli's grandmother's cabin remembering how he stated over and over again in his letters that his greatest wish was to come back and again roam those fields in Gwinnett County on his mare Kate, and to tend the little farm with his mother and sisters. Eli's request was such a simple one, but, sadly, one that could not be fulfilled. I came back to North Carolina feeling somehow that I knew Eli a little better since I had actually seen his home and the fields he so lovingly described. While I was in Lilburn, a reporter from the Daily News interviewed me. When the article was published, the story was picked up by the Associated Press, taking it into Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida. So, my next call came from Mary Landers Shelton in Jacksonville, Alabama, whose great grandfather had been Eli's half-brother, Humphrey Davis Landers. She invited me for a visit, so I headed south again. I spent several days there in North Alabama meeting more members of the Landers family and collecting photographs of the family and pictures of Eli's brother's old homeplace. After making contact with the family, I set out to retrace Eli's path though the battle sites in Virginia. He first stop had been in Richmond, where he described to his mother all the things he saw there, among which were statues of George Washington and Henry Clay. I found the same statues, and as I stood looking up at the statue of Washington as Eli said, "standing on a stack of fine rock", I could just imagine how this young farm boy, away from home for the first time, must have felt as he looked up at the same massive piece of granite. My next trip was to Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville where Eli lived and fought in the winter of 1862. I stood there "behind the stone wall," trying to picture that awful carnage that Eli described so vividly. I saw the "sunken road" and wondered how Eli must have felt seeing so many dead and dying soldiers there. Later, I visited the Peninsula near Yorktown where Eli Landers' regiment met the Union army at the battles of Lee's Mill and Damn Number One. Even though a large housing project is now encroaching on the Lee's Mill site, there was enough of the earthenworks remaining when I visited the area to see the Confederates' position there. At the Dam I saw the same water-filled trenches in which the Georgia regiment had to stand for days on end without fire or shelter. One last visit to Virginia took me to northern Virginia to find Crampton's Gap at South Mountain to see for myself what kind of terrain Eli's regiment had to cross. The drive from Richmond took four hours in my car, while Eli describes thirteen days of hard marching to cover the same ground. It was very serene there on the snow covered slopes of South Mountain the day I visited the site. What a contrast with that day in the fall of 1862 when over two thirds of Eli's regiment was killed on those same slopes! Before I could actually finish writing Eli's story, I felt that in order to make my research complete, I must visit the battlefield of Gettysburg. Thought there were no letters describing the battle, there was in with the letters a small penciled note describing the route he took in getting there. This then was the route I traveled as well. I knew that as a part of Wofford's Brigade, Eli's regiment participated in the second day's battle which was fought at the peach orchard, through the wheat field, to the forbidding rocks of the Devil's Den. That battle was fought on July 2nd, 1863. I visited the area on July 12th, 1991 when the temperature was nearly one hundred degrees, so experiencing the terrible heat alone helped me better understand the hardships the troops must have endured there. After collecting all the photographs and background material I could find on the Sixteenth Georgia Regiment, I began to write Eli's story, using his letters to give life to the abstract account of the events of the war. Because the article in the Gwinnett paper quoted Eli's request for a tombstone, Jimmy Dodd, a member of the 5th Missouri/9th Georgia group of re-enactors there in Lilburn, called me and said that his regiment wanted to erect a new stone for Eli in keeping with the one he had requested in 1863. Jimmy had a double interest in the project, since he not only wanted to honor a Civil War soldier's request, but also to honor his own wife, Theresa, a descendant of Eli's brother James Landers. So, on September 23, 1990, one hundred and twenty seven years after his death, I had the honor of attending a special memorial service and dedication of the new tombstone for Eli Landers at the Sweetwater Church he loved so much. With the traditional twenty-one gun salute over his grave, Eli was finally given the honors he so richly deserved. I thought surely nothing else in my search would be as thrilling as that ceremony, but a few weeks after I returned home, I received a photograph from a descendant of Eli's sister, Adaline, who said that it just might be of Eli, but he couldn't be positive about it. By using a clue I had picked up in one of Eli's letters to his mother, I was able to confirm that the photograph was indeed one of Eli Landers. Eli had written of an ambrotype he had had made for his mother after he arrived in Richmond, saying that he had written his name on his cartridge box. With the aid of a magnifying glass, I found his initials, EPL plainly visible, just as he had described them to his mother. How happy I was to finally see the person I had gotten to know so well through a bundle of old letters. The young face, the strong hands, the sensitive eyes all bespoke those qualities I had sensed in his letters. His devotion to his family, his history of hard work in the red clay fields of G! eorgia, his honesty and integrity, were all mirrored in his photograph, and he almost seemed to reach out to me from its frame to say, "Thank you for telling my story." " As I live in Washington, NC and only about 25 miles from Williamston, I have met Mrs. Roberson and talked with her on numerous occasions. It was absolutely amazing to hear her tell of all the things she did to make this story a complete one. In her second book, "In Care of Yellow River," Mrs. Roberson tells in the foreward what finally happened to these letters: " In making the decision as to where the original letters should be put, I felt that Eli would have wanted them to "go back home," so with the permission of Mrs. Nellie Mobley, who had loaned them to me, I gave them to the Gwinnett County Historical Society in Lawrenceville, Georgia, in whose possession they rest today." The letters are now held in a fireproof vaulted safe for safe keeping. From what I understand, family members are the only people to have access to these letters now. As for the two books, I feel very fortunate to have a signed copy of each for my home library. If any of you should find either of these two books, I would suggest reading them. These first hand accountings of the War are priceless and so very interesting to read! I truly hope I haven't taken up too much of everyone's time with this, but I thought some of the list members might find some of this of interest. Edward

From: Richmond Dispatch Monday Morning, June 22, 1861 Terrific Fight at Manassas! --------------------------------------- VICTORY AGAIN PERCHES ON OUR BANNER. Yesterday was a day long to be remembered in the annals of Richmond. During the whole afternoon groups could be seen gathered around the newspaper offices and the hotels, anxiously inquiring whether any news had been received from the scene of expected conflict. Towards the hour at which the Central cars generally arrived, crowds could be seen wending their way to the depot, expecting that news would be received from passengers from the neighborhood of engagement. On inquiry, we ascertained that when the cars left Manassas (7 o'clock A.M.) heavy firing was heard in the vicinity of Bull's Run, about three miles from that place, and where the battle of Thursday occurred. Our informant could not distinguish anything like the report of cannon, and therefore concluded the fight was confined principally to skirmishers. Before the train reached this city, however, information had reached them at Gordonsville that the engagement had become general, and that a terrific battle was progressing. Private dispatches of the most reliable character were received at a late hour in the evening, informing us that the attack was made by our forces about four o'clock, in consequence of an attempt of the enemy to throw up breastworks under the disguise of burying their dead. In the general engagement President Davis led the centre, Gen. Beauregard the right wing, and Gen. Johnston the left wing of our army. The Lincoln army was completely routed. Hampton's Legion suffered considerable loss. Sherman's celebrated Battery of Light Artillery was taken by our troops. The fight was very severe and fatal on both sides. Among the prominent officers who are reported to have been killed are Col. Bartow, of Georgia; Gen. Bre, of South Carolina; Gen. Kirby Smith, and Col. Johnson, of the Hampton Legion. The following dispatch was received by Mrs. President Davis late last evening: "We have won a glorious but dear fought victory--the night closed with the enemy in full flight, pursued by our troops. Jeff Davis"

From: Daily Telegraph, Painesville, Ohio Thursday May 2, 1861 TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES. Reported for this Paper Secessionists Shot and Hung! -------------------------------------------- NO ARMISTICE ! ! -------------------------------------------- THE KILLED AT MOULTRIE! -------------------------------------------- New York, May 1st Captain Carson of the Schooner B.B. Pitts, from Charleston, states that he was at the wharf near Fort Moultrie during Sumter's bombardment, and that 60 dead bodies were carried across his track to land, and Monday 40 more were carried out at one time and 60 another. Captain Carson and mate saw and counted the bodies, and that all the soldiers were sworn to deny any loss of life. Washington special to the World says:--- Arrangements have been made for the resumption of travel by rail via Baltimore and York, Pa. All Southern journals received to day state that a large number of troops are gathering there, and the free negroes are being pressed into the service. Nearly every portion of Washington and the District is connected by telegraph. Letters received to-day from Paris state that the French Government is fully posted in American affairs, and no sympathy is felt for the Confederate States. The Post's special says: Arrangements are being made for the resumption of the Northern mail service. Scott will soon move his head-quarters to Philadelphia. 30,000 troops are to be concentrated. Gen. Bonham is reported as in command of the rebel troops in Va. Lord Lyons denies the report that he had solicited an armistice. A letter from a member of the 7th regiment says six secessionists were caught on the 27th, and two were shot on the morning of the 28th; another was to be shot on the next morning. Several had been arrested for tearing up the railroad track. A Private letter from Annapolis says, the brig Caledonia has two men hanging from her yard, one for smuggling powder and provisions to Charleston--the other for piloting the 7th regiment into Chesepeake bay with the intention that the Baltimorean secessionists should capture Annapolis before the 7th reached there.

Hi all. I have rec'd copies of my ancestor's civil war records from the National Archives. Of course, the muster rolls are there and several indicate he was home furloughed on sick leave. There's also record of him having been in Winder Hospital. Those all seem pretty clear to me. The one thing I have a question about is an Honor Roll card. Does that mean he was honored in battle for some reason? Possible why he was in the hospital? If anyone can point me to a place that I can find help researching this--or just learning what an Honor Roll card is--I'd really appreciate it. Thanks. Shannon

Linda:: Would you Please take a little time and see if there is a Pvt Needham H. Temples 37th Infantry Regiment of Mississippi, Grave Site in Georgia.. He became SICk in late August 1862 and Died in Hospital on 20th Oct 1862..They were in the North Ms area and I was told the Sick were sent to Hospitals in Georgia during that time...If this is True, He would be buried there some place. Thank You for the Help Happy New Year Thomas Temple

Hi, I found no Bernhard Cartney in The Roll of Honor, but I have not given up Will keep checking for both you and Rowena. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: <MKJAME@aol.com> To: <CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 9:35 PM Subject: [CIVIL-WAR] Bernard Cartney > Like Rowena, I am also looking for the burial place of my Great Grandmother's > brother, Bernard Cartney. Bernard was with the 29th Missouri Volunteer > Infantry Regiment. Bernard's family lived in Carlyle, Clinton Co., Illinois. I > would appreciate any help that anyone could provide. > > Mary James > MKJAME@aol.com > > This is basically what I know which I found posted on the Internet: > > Musician Bernard or Bernhard CARTNEY > Musician CARTNEY was a mere 15 when he enlisted at St. Louis on September 16, > 1862. He mustered in at Benton Barracks on September 18 in Company G. He > left sick to the regimental hospital in Jan/Feb., 1863 at Camp Grove at Young's > Point, LA. He died of disease on March 2, 1863. > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To search our list archives since 1996, go to > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > and enter Civil-War in the list name > >

Edward, What a great idea. Keep them coming. I teach middle school and high school history so I find things like this very valuable. Primary documents are a whole new concept to the kids and this makes it more interesting since this was a "real" newspaper someone wrote and read!! Sylvia

Like Rowena, I am also looking for the burial place of my Great Grandmother's brother, Bernard Cartney. Bernard was with the 29th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Bernard's family lived in Carlyle, Clinton Co., Illinois. I would appreciate any help that anyone could provide. Mary James MKJAME@aol.com This is basically what I know which I found posted on the Internet: Musician Bernard or Bernhard CARTNEY Musician CARTNEY was a mere 15 when he enlisted at St. Louis on September 16, 1862. He mustered in at Benton Barracks on September 18 in Company G. He left sick to the regimental hospital in Jan/Feb., 1863 at Camp Grove at Young's Point, LA. He died of disease on March 2, 1863.

Like Rowena, I am also looking for the burial place of my Great Grandmother's brother, Bernard Cartney. Bernard was with the 29th Missouri Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Bernard's family lived in Carlyle, Clinton Co., Illinois. I would appreciate any help that anyone could provide. Mary James MKJAME@aol.com This is basically what I know which I found posted on the Internet: Musician Bernard or Bernhard CARTNEY Musician CARTNEY was a mere 15 when he enlisted at St. Louis on September 16, 1862. He mustered in at Benton Barracks on September 18 in Company G. He left sick to the regimental hospital in Jan/Feb., 1863 at Camp Grove at Young's Point, LA. He died of disease on March 2, 1863.

The January Column "Reunion" by James L. Walker, an unusual "incident" of the Civil War involving family members fighting on opposite sides has been uploaded. http://www.bitsofblueandgray.com/january2004.htm Jayne McCormick bitsobluengray@aol.com bitsofblueandgray.com

From: The New York Herald Sunday Morning, April 28, 1861 THE REIGN OF TERROR IN VIRGINIA Chambersburg, Pa, April 27, 1861 A number of residents of Virginia have passed through here en route for the North in the last twenty-four hours. Many of them have left everything behind, and are obliged to depend upon the charities of the people to continue their journey. All who come from as far south as Richmond, could get out of the State only by a special permit from Gov. Letcher. Their statements show that the reign of terror exists in the interior of Virginia. The mob everywhere appreciate to their own use whatever they may fancy; farmers are stopped on the road, their horses taken from under them plea that they are for the defense of the South; granaries are searched, and everything convertable for food for either man or beast carried off. This has been carried to such an extent that along the northern border of Virginia a reaction is taking place and instructions are being sent from Western Maryland, to the delegates at Annapolis, that if they vote for secession the people will hang them on their return home. The news of the unanimous sentiment of the North, the prompt and decisive action on the part of the State governments in enlisting men has strengthened the Union men of Western Maryland and the border counties of Virginia. A number have found their way here, and joined the federal army to fight against Jefferson Davis' troops. The mayor of Hagerstown was here this morning, and states that the Stars and Stripes were this morning hoisted in that place. There is but a handful of secessionists there, and he says these will be driven out of town.

In a message dated 1/1/2004 8:16:32 AM Eastern Standard Time, mpruddy@bellsouth.net writes: >>Although, like many ofyou, I detest advertising splattered all over the place, neither am Iwilling to spend the money required to maintain a server and the software required to produce an ad-free list.>> For the information posted to this list I am glad to "pay" by reading ads anytime any place [just please not popups *G*] I am so grateful for the chance to learn from them, people not ads <G> Eliz

In a message dated 1/1/2004 8:16:27 AM Eastern Standard Time, mpruddy@bellsouth.net writes: as long as we keep the more strident wavers of the bloody shirt somewhat sedated, the list is serves its intended purpose. If I have offended anyone by waving a bloody shirt I will try to keep myself more "sedated". If I have said anything that is untrue I wish to be corrected and shown the truth. If you or anyone else expects me to let untruths stand as fact without challenging them, maybe I should be deleted from the list, because I will not stand by and let the Confederate Soldier or the people of the south as whole, be maligned. I will stand and exercise my right of free speech and defend my ancestors and their attempt to not be subjegated to an all powerful Federal Govt. I do understand that this list is for helping people find their ancestors and to help track their movements and activities during the War for Southern Independence. I apologize if I offended but I stand by what I said. Eddie McRae edmcrebel@aol.com edmcrebel@yahoo.com edmcrebel@carolina.rr.com

>From the Lynchburg Virginian Tuesday Morning, April 23, 1861 Capt. Robert E. Lee We rejoice that this distinguished officer and worthy son of Virginia, has withdrawn from Lincoln's army and thrown himself upon the bosom of his native State. It was what we expected of the man. Capt. Maury has done likewise; and thus these two noble men, the very flower of the Army and Navy of the late United States, respond to the call of their glorious old mother. Sparta never had worthier sons. All honor to them and the State that furnished them. Let no Coiolanus be found in the army of mercenaries that shall besiege the cities of Virginia. If there should be--even though it were a Scott, whose laurelled brow has towered like the sons of Saul, long a conspicuous object amongst his countrymen--the women may not entreat them, but will execrate their memory. Virginia expects every son of hers, no matter where he has been in the past, to do his duty now in her hour of trial. If they be true Virginians they will act like Lee and Maury and Forrest have done. The Alexandria Gazette, of Saturday last, and before the fact of Col. Lee's resignation had transpired, thus referred to him: It is probable that the Secession of Virginia will cause an immediate resignation of many officers of the Army and Navy from this State. We do not know, and have no right to speak for or anticipate the course, of Col. Robert E. Lee. Whatever he may do, will be conscientious and honorable. But he should resign his present position in the Army of the U.S. We call the immediate attention of our State to him, as an able, brave, experienced officer:--no man his superior in all that constitutes the soldier, and the gentleman--no man more worthy to head our forces and lead our army. There is no one who would command more of the confidence of the people of Virginia, than this distinguished officer; and no one under whom the volunteers and militia would more gladly rally. His reputation, his acknowledged ability, his chivalric character, his probity, honor, and--may we add, to his eternal praise--his Christian life and conduct--make his very name a "tower of strength." It is! a name surrounded by revolutionary and patriotic associations and reminiscences.

Ed, It is a wonderful thing for you to dedicate so much of your time for this project. I belong to a Georgia County GenWeb list and one of the list admin. does the old newspaper from that county. I have found a plethora of family information from them dated from 1892 til 1912. I am presently working on a Regimental History of a Georgia Unit and the Civil War newspapers would be wonderful to see. I appreciate your efforts. Thank you and Happy New Year to all. Regards, Linda Snow Davis THE 17th GEORGIA INFANTRY REGIMENT http://hometown.aol.com/ldsed/seventeenthgaindex.html

I would concur with your rationale for replying to the List rather than to the individual. At least for the initial reply. Then the listers will have to determine if any extensive communications should be carried on off-list. Jim Gilmer > > From: "rjknauf" <rjknauf@earthlink.net> > Date: 2004/01/01 Thu AM 11:00:18 EST > To: CIVIL-WAR-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CIVIL-WAR] advertising > > But, Dan, many times one doesn't want personal replies, but rather responses > to list only...for various reasons, not least of which is if one doesn't > recognize the sender's name/email address, one might delete it for fear of > virus, etc. Besides belonging to a list usually means whatever info is > sought and given may be beneficial to some other researcher out there who > didn't even have that particular line of inquiry as yet. (:<))))) I know, I > know, these statements probably didn't make much sense, but I know what i > mean(:<))) > > > > ==== CIVIL-WAR Mailing List ==== > To search our list archives since 1996, go to > http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > and enter Civil-War in the list name > >

Ed, I think listing those various newspaper articles from Civil War dates is a great idea...helps to "fluff" out the daily lives, ideas and activities of those times in a more personal way. Jeannette