This message is to the web site. I have recieved two of the listings for the Digest with something of a suspicious info and the outlook has removed the attachment so I am recieving blank emails for the site. I can only guess there is a virus. the other email that I recieved like this was Digest #36. Hope someone can get rid of the problem... Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 4:01 AM Subject: MO-CW-D Digest V03 #41

I want to thank everyone who has responded to my question. This is such a great list. I do have another question but I am not sure if I will word it correctly. Here goes. I was wondering if there is any way to pinpoint any information on this regiment on the individual who was in it? Particular my great grandfather Naril Politte. (Sorry about the mistake below...I meant great grandfather) Perhaps on some of the individual fights/skirmishes they had. Thank you for your help. Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael/Janet Olive" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: Books? > Hello List, > I have a book title "ILLINOIS IN THE CIVIL WAR". > My question is are there any books for Missouri, like maybe, St. Louis > in the Civil War? > > Are any books that has the different regiments that was form in St. > Louis? > I know that my grandfather regiment was suppose to have been formed in > St. Louis. > I was told it was Co. F 15th Mo. Infantry. > Thank > Janet > >

I have been able to add more accounts and graphics to the webpage on Benton Barracks. Now I have some unique perspectives as well as 1875 illustrated images of the Fairgrounds park area. One passage comes from an 1863 account of F.F. Kiner, 14th Iowa Infantry. Also much more on the conditions of the Colored Troops, freedmen (or refugee slaves) living at the camp. The American Memory website gave me images which I converted to gif files, then merged into larger images. Many of the roads have changed names so it has taken some detective work in identifying in understanding the boundaries of Camp Benton. (I have also added a link to wonderful Pictorial St. Louis map at the Library of Congress.) Benton Barracks (alias Camp Benton, St. Louis, Missouri) http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/benton.htm As always, if you have any additional information we are anxious for more. Enjoy, Scott Williams, http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/

Here is some info for you. At the bottom is a link to the book you were asking about. Jared Billings Festus=Crystal City, MO 15th Regiment Infantry Organized at St. Louis, Mo., August and September, 1861. Moved to Jefferson City, Mo., September, 1861. Attached to Fremont's Army of the West to January, 1862. 5th Brigade, Army of Southwest Missouri, to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Southwest Missouri, to May, 1862. 1st Brigade, 5th Division, Army of Mississippi, to September, 1862. 35th Brigade, 11th Division, Army of Ohio, to October, 1862. 35th Brigade, 11th Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Right Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 20th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to June, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 4th Army Corps, to August, 1865. Dept. of Texas to December, 1865. SERVICE.--Fremont's Campaign against Springfield, Mo., October 4-November 8, 1861. Moved to Rolla, Mo., and duty there until February, 1862. Curtis' Campaign in Missouri and Arkansas against Price February and March. Advance on Springfield February 2-11. Pursuit of Price into Arkansas February 14-29. Battles of Pea Ridge, Ark., March 6-8. March to Batesville April 5-May 3. Moved to Cape Girardeau, Mo., May 11-22; thence to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., May 23-26. Siege of Corinth May 27-30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6. At Rienzi until August 26. Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, August 26-September 14; thence to Louisville, Ky., September 17-19. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-16. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 16-November 7. Duty at Nashville until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty near Murfreesboro until June. Expedition toward Columb! ia March 4-14. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign June 23-July 7. Fairfield June 27-29. Estill Springs July 2. Reconnaissance to Anderson July 11-14. Occupation of Middle Tennessee until August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22, Battle of Chickamauga September 19-20. Siege of Chattanooga September 24-November 23. Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Orchard Knob November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Pursuit to Graysville November 26-27. March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn., November 28-December 8. Operations in East Tennessee December, 1863, to February, 1864. Dandridge January 16-17, 1864. Moved to Chattanooga, thence to Cleveland, Tenn., and duty there until May, 1864. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 1-September 8. Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Buzzard's Roost Gap May 8-9. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Adairsville May 17. Near Kingston May 18-19. Near Cassville! May 19. Advance on Dallas May 22-25, Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Buckhead, Nancy's Creek, July 18. Peach Tree Creek July 19-20. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood and Forest in North Georgia and North Alabama September 29-November 3. Nashville Campaign November and December. Columbia, Duck River, November 24-27. Spring Hill November 29. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Columbia December 19. Pulaski December 25. March from Pulaski to Decatur, Ala., and duty there! until April, 1865. Moved to Blue Springs April 1-5, thence to Nashville, Tenn., April 19, and duty there until June. Moved to New Orleans June 15-23, and to Port Lavaca, Texas, July 18-24. Duty there until October. Moved to Victoria October 27 and duty there until December. Mustered out December 25, 1865. Regiment lost during service 8 Officers, and 107 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 106 Enlisted men by disease. Total 222. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/070061124X/102-0524153-7540160?vi=glance ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael/Janet Olive To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 9:14 AM Subject: [MO-CW] Books? Hello List, I have a book title "ILLINOIS IN THE CIVIL WAR". My question is are there any books for Missouri, like maybe, St. Louis in the Civil War? Are any books that has the different regiments that was form in St. Louis? 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Hello List, I have a book title "ILLINOIS IN THE CIVIL WAR". My question is are there any books for Missouri, like maybe, St. Louis in the Civil War? Are any books that has the different regiments that was form in St. Louis? I know that my grandfather regiment was suppose to have been formed in St. Louis. I was told it was Co. F 15th Mo. Infantry. Thank Janet

Just uploaded a revised page on Benton Barracks. This was an important military base, hospital and contraband/refugee slave camp located now within the city limits of St. Louis, Missouri. Many Union regiments, including U.S. Colored troops, were organized, trained or stationed here during the Civil War. Today the Benton Barracks site remains forgotten and unmarked. Included are photos of the site as it appears today. http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/benton.htm If anyone has information to contribute, I would be happy to hearing from you. Scott K. Williams, The Missouri Civil War Museum http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/

Underground Railroad & Slavery Presentations Susan Mulholland presents interactive folktales & stories of escape from slavery (noon), and Deb Swanegan portrays "big-house servant" (1 p.m.), Saturday, Feb. 15, Old Court House, 11 N. 4th, St. Louis, 314-655-1700, TDD 800-678-6768 Desoto Joe/The Record Man

Keith Rawlings Author of Gone But Not Forgotten: Quinette Cemetery, A Slave Burial Ground discusses & signs his book, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m., Kirkwood Public Library, 140 E. Jefferson, St. Louis, 314-821-5770 Desoto Joe/The Record Man

Civil War Booksignings & Displays Author of Memoirs of a Soldier Kipp Mullen & author of Triumph at the James Don Waldemer signs their books, plus artifacts, Saturday, Feb. 15, noon-3 p.m., Book House, 9719 Manchester Rd., St. Louis, 314-968-4491 Desoto Joe/The Record Man

Portrait of the Life of a Slave Girl Basmin Red Deer gives Black History Month presentation, Thursday, Feb. 13, 7 p.m., St. Louis County Library, Thornhill Branch, 12863 Willowyck, St. Louis, 314-878-7730 Desoto Joe/The Record Man

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Hagerstown, Md. -- The Civil War movie Gods and Generals won't include scenes of the Battle of Antietam, the war's bloodiest one-day clash, director Ronald Maxwell says. Those scenes, shot in 2001, were cut to bring the film's running time to three hours and 35 minutes, maxwell told an audience in Shepherdstown, W.Va., last week. Gods and Generals, a prequel to Maxwell's 1993 epic, Gettysburg, stars Jeff Daniels, Robert Duvall and Chris Conner. Maxwell said the Antietam battle, fought near Sharpsburg, Md., in 1862, will be included in a six-hour DVD version of the film. AP Desoto Joe/The Record Man

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-------------fly it who wants to so what does the opposition gain??? ----For many years past, only Southern "red-necks" have flown the Stars and Bars from their pick-up trucks, their cross-country tractor-trailers and from their front yards except when it was flown as an historical symbol of what took place in this nation a hundred and forty years ago. ----Now there has been a surge of "political correctness" that is aimed at removing the emblem from all the places where it was only historical. This ill conceived surge of emotion by that bunch of self styled do-gooders that gathers and questions each other, "What can we do today to stir up the pot???" will only cause more people in all stratas of society to demand the right to display the Stars and Bars as an expression of the rights of citizens to not be controlled by a minority of narrow-minded people without the sense to involve themselves in matters of importance all around us that need their attention. ----I predict that the flying of the Stars and Bars will soon be "the thing to do" by men and women, all over the nation, that are fighting against the encroachment of their rights and the unconstitutional-the violations of the First Ammendment at the very least--actions of a few and the political hacks that follow them. ===== Harry S. Thomas (Stan.) [email protected] __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com

Maybe we can get Pat Buchanan to run in 04. Missouri needs someone to step up to the plate....bob ballinger Desoto Joe/The Record Man wrote: >Saturday, February 8, 2003 > > >Poll: Missourians support displays of Confederate flag at historic sites > > > > >ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Two-thirds of Missourians oppose the recent decision by Missouri officials to take down the Confederate flag at two state historic sites where the flag has flown for decades, according to a new poll. > >Of the 603 Missourians participating in the poll commissioned by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 45 percent said they "strongly disagreed" with the state's decision to no longer fly the flag. An additional 21 percent said they "somewhat disagreed" with the decision. > >Only 30 percent said they agreed with Gov. Bob Holden and others -- including Republican Sens. Kit Bond and Jim Talent and Democratic Rep. Dick Gephardt -- that the flag should no longer fly, according to the poll by Zogby International of Utica, N.Y. > >The poll's error margin was 4.1 percentage points. The telephone poll was conducted last Saturday and Sunday. > >Almost three of every four persons polled outstate opposed taking down the Confederate flag. > >In the St. Louis area, more than half of those surveyed backed the flag including retired union bookkeeper Patricia Pijut and insurance broker Tom Martin. They cite history as the reason for flying the Confederate flag. > >Pijut said it is appropriate to allow the flag to fly at Civil War sites and cemeteries. "There was a Confederate army. We can't change history," she said. > >Martin accused the Confederate flag's critics of "rewriting history to make it politically correct." > >But those who object to flying the flag said the issue isn't its history, but its role as a symbol. > >"I don't think symbols of division are anything that we should be promoting," said Alveta Nelson, a St. Louis teacher. > >Nelson said she was not surprised that she is among the minority in the poll. She added that she was not swayed by the argument of flag defenders that the Confederate flag has flown at the Missouri sites for decades. > >"Just because something has been done for a long period of time doesn't make it right," Nelson said. "Slavery went on for a long time, and that wasn't right." > >Missouri's dispute over the flag has attracted national attention, with some seeing it as a spinoff of the ongoing controversy in South Carolina over the flag. > >Gephardt, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, touched off the matter while campaigning recently in South Carolina. He declared that the Confederate flag had no business flying anywhere. At the time, Gephardt was not aware that the flag flew at two sites in Missouri, but he added later that he stuck by his view. > >Gephardt's stance attracted the attention of Missouri officials, including his longtime ally, Holden, and the Missouri flags came down. Since then, Confederate-flag backers have rallied outside the governor's mansion and pressed for a reversal. > >But Talent and Bond, both Republicans, have sided with Holden on the flag -- raising questions of how much of a political issue it will be in next year's statewide elections. > >Desoto Joe/The Record Man > > >==== MO-CW Mailing List ==== >MO-CW Mailing List Homepage: http://members.tripod.com/~DesotoJoe1/index-13.html > >============================== >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 > > > >

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Saturday, February 8, 2003 Poll: Missourians support displays of Confederate flag at historic sites ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Two-thirds of Missourians oppose the recent decision by Missouri officials to take down the Confederate flag at two state historic sites where the flag has flown for decades, according to a new poll. Of the 603 Missourians participating in the poll commissioned by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 45 percent said they "strongly disagreed" with the state's decision to no longer fly the flag. An additional 21 percent said they "somewhat disagreed" with the decision. Only 30 percent said they agreed with Gov. Bob Holden and others -- including Republican Sens. Kit Bond and Jim Talent and Democratic Rep. Dick Gephardt -- that the flag should no longer fly, according to the poll by Zogby International of Utica, N.Y. The poll's error margin was 4.1 percentage points. The telephone poll was conducted last Saturday and Sunday. Almost three of every four persons polled outstate opposed taking down the Confederate flag. In the St. Louis area, more than half of those surveyed backed the flag including retired union bookkeeper Patricia Pijut and insurance broker Tom Martin. They cite history as the reason for flying the Confederate flag. Pijut said it is appropriate to allow the flag to fly at Civil War sites and cemeteries. "There was a Confederate army. We can't change history," she said. Martin accused the Confederate flag's critics of "rewriting history to make it politically correct." But those who object to flying the flag said the issue isn't its history, but its role as a symbol. "I don't think symbols of division are anything that we should be promoting," said Alveta Nelson, a St. Louis teacher. Nelson said she was not surprised that she is among the minority in the poll. She added that she was not swayed by the argument of flag defenders that the Confederate flag has flown at the Missouri sites for decades. "Just because something has been done for a long period of time doesn't make it right," Nelson said. "Slavery went on for a long time, and that wasn't right." Missouri's dispute over the flag has attracted national attention, with some seeing it as a spinoff of the ongoing controversy in South Carolina over the flag. Gephardt, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, touched off the matter while campaigning recently in South Carolina. He declared that the Confederate flag had no business flying anywhere. At the time, Gephardt was not aware that the flag flew at two sites in Missouri, but he added later that he stuck by his view. Gephardt's stance attracted the attention of Missouri officials, including his longtime ally, Holden, and the Missouri flags came down. Since then, Confederate-flag backers have rallied outside the governor's mansion and pressed for a reversal. But Talent and Bond, both Republicans, have sided with Holden on the flag -- raising questions of how much of a political issue it will be in next year's statewide elections. Desoto Joe/The Record Man