This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: PERKINS, BOEHMLER, BISHOP, LEE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/137.833.1 Message Board Post: There is one mention of PERKINS in the booklet and a section on BOEHMLER. "Geo. Perkins, left his newspaper, "The Cedar Falls Gazette.". In later years he became the distinguished editor of the Sioux City Journal and member of congress" "Some twenty years ago Charles Boehmler told me the following incident: He came home on a furlough, and on starting back was given a gold watch to carry back to one of the officers of his company. Before he had a chance to deliver it after his return, he was captured by the Rebels. He had on when captured a pair of new boots, which his father had made for him. Before he was searched he cut a slit in the lining of his boot and slipped the watch in out of sight. As the boots were new he feared some poor barefooted rebel might take them away from him so he took a stick which was on fire and burned the boots so they looked as if they were on their last legs. His captors looking at the ghastly outside did not know that the leather lining was keeping them in shape. He went into Andersonville and came out after months of confinement with those same boots and delivered the gold watch so long and so well concealed. There were five Boehmler brothers in the Civil war. Two were! in Andersonville. Jacob Boehmler, who enlisted three times before he was accepted, is the only on now living. Their father, a pioneer boot and shoe maker, had at one time twelve men working in the shop, which stood at 116 Main street, where Bishop's Paint store is located. This building was moved to the middle of the west side of Main street, between 3rd and 4th, and is now occupied by Fong Lee laundry on West 4th street."