This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1VB.2ACE/11372.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Janett I'd be happy to scan the ribbons for you some time, but I'm working overseas and everything naturally is at home. I can ask my sister to photograph them with her digital camera, but I don't know when she can get around to it. My great grandmother was Mrs Ida Katherine (Wagner) Seaman, daughter of Reuben C. Wagner -- a Stark County boy who ran away from home at 17 and got all the way down to Washington, DC in 1863, during Lee's Pennsylvania campaign. He was a corporal in Co. B, 2nd DC Volunteer Infantry, serving mainly in the DC area -- making sure that John Mosby didn't gobble up everything in sight. I know that gg grandpa was adjutant of Asa R. Hillyer Post, GAR. His widow was in the WRC and we have a lot of ribbons from reuinions and such they attended a century ago. (They are all framed and hanging over the mantel in my bedroom.) Great grandma belonged in Sandusky, so it was whatever tent was there. It may be written down on something, but it's all at home. The medals are reddish bronze, about the size of a quarter if I remember right, but much thicker. I'm trying to remember the color of the ribbons, but not having much luck. Great grandma lived in Monroeville, Huron County in the 1890s, so she may have joined the DUV there. She was a school teacher before she married. She moved into Sandusky when her English-born husband opened a business there in the early 1900s. She died when I was very small, but I treasure a Christmas card with a special message to me when I was about two and her first great grandchild. I've even still got the big old fashion two dollar bill in it. Her mother was Irish, and my mother has often accused me of inheriting her cutting Irish tongue. (When I did my practice teaching as a university student, the supervising teacher told me not to be so sarcastic with the kids. I didn't even realize I had been!) My home in the States is a long way from Toledo -- and a lot "futhuh daown south"! I belonged to the SCV for some time and a friend has urged me to join the SUVCW too, but I found both male groups to be too heavy on refighting old wars and reopening old wounds. (I'm a VN vet and had enough fighting to last me!) But the women's organizations seem more sensible than the men's -- no big surprise. :-))) Good luck with your efforts. Charles