Nancy, Can you tell me more about your Williams family? Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: <APUND@aol.com> To: <MOLAWREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 7:21 PM Subject: [MOLAWREN-L] Re: MOLAWREN-D Digest V02 #144 > Dear Ellen Franks, > You asked for Civil War stories a while back. Perhaps this is not too > late. > My relatives from the Civil War era who lived in Lawrence County, > Missouri, were southern sympathizers. A group of northern sympathizers, > bushwhackers they were called, came to their farm and killed the father, > William Williams. Later they came back and drove the mother and her children > who were still at home out of the house and burned the house and everything > they owned. > One of their sons, John Calvin, who had gone away to enlist in Texas > wrote about his war experiences and about his family's treatment. His > memoirs appeared in a Civil War magazine in 1979 (It is in Vol. 17, No. 9 of > the CIVIL WAR TIMES ILLUSTRATED (January 1979).). The article was called > "Fire of Hatred" because he ended his account by saying that the fire of > hatred in him would not be extinguished until his life was gone. I can't say > I blame him, but it is a terrible thing to live with all one's life. > Perhaps this description says it better: "John Calvin Williams, son of > the murdered William Williams, wrote his memoirs about service in the 34th > Texas Cavalry during the Civil War and the violent abuse of his parents by > Lawrence County residents because of his service in the Confederate Army. > This account is titled "The Fire of Hatred" and was published by CIVIL WAR > TIMES ILLUSTRATED in the January 1979 issue. Like many supporters of the > Southern cause, John C. Williams settled in Texas after the war because of > the hostility and violence toward Confederate veterans and their families > that existed in Lawrence County during and after the war. Some members of > the Lawrence County companies of the 76th Enrolled Missouri Militia were the > perpetrators of this violence. Few, if any, were > ever brought to justice for their misdeeds. However, several 76th EMM > members known to have been involved in such criminal activities suffered > retribution by Confederate Army units or individuals serving in CSA units > during Jo Shelby's raid of October 1863 and other intermittent raids. > Southern sympathizers committed several murders and other violent acts in the > county, too. This is a dark side of county history that no one can be proud > of, but it did happen." > The author of this description is Dale West. > > Sincerely, > Nancy Pundsack > > > ==== MOLAWREN Mailing List ==== > Looking for a town, postoffice, cemetery, creek, etc. > Try the mapping services at USGS GNIS. > http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form > > ============================== > 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 >