Some 25 years after the end of the War Between the States, the "old soldiers" of Pike came together to form a Veteran's Association. Over 1500 soldiers and their families met at Concord for the event. This event was chronicled in the Pike County newspaper. It took up 4 columns in the paper and when transcribed, was 6 pages long. For this reason, I didn't want to chop it up and post it on the mailing list a little at the time. So we have posted it directly to the archives. If you are interested in this bit of history, I invite you to go directly to the archives to read it. The the URL is listed below: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/pike/newspapers/veterans.txt Also, for the ones of you who are new on the list, there are new archived files located at the addresses listed below. These files are copies of the items posted to the list previously http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/pike/obits.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/pike/newspapers.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/pike/vitals.htm Special thanks to Debra Crosby for her help in posting our files to the archives. Lynn
Lynn; do you know of any way to copy this article and get it all in one piece.? I tried and I just get part of it , and some is left off on the last of each sentence. Thanks, Billie. -----Original Message----- From: Lynn B. Cunningham [mailto:lcunnin1@bellsouth.net] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 5:36 AM To: GAPIKE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GAPIKE] 1890 Veteran's Association Meeting Some 25 years after the end of the War Between the States, the "old soldiers" of Pike came together to form a Veteran's Association. Over 1500 soldiers and their families met at Concord for the event. This event was chronicled in the Pike County newspaper. It took up 4 columns in the paper and when transcribed, was 6 pages long. For this reason, I didn't want to chop it up and post it on the mailing list a little at the time. So we have posted it directly to the archives. If you are interested in this bit of history, I invite you to go directly to the archives to read it. The the URL is listed below: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ga/pike/newspapers/veterans.txt Also, for the ones of you who are new on the list, there are new archived files located at the addresses listed below. These files are copies of the items posted to the list previously http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/pike/obits.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/pike/newspapers.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/pike/vitals.htm Special thanks to Debra Crosby for her help in posting our files to the archives. Lynn ============================== 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