Can anyone out there share any data in Adam Ivey? I show him as being born about 1849, son of Adam and Jane Ivey. He almosr fits into my group but no quite. Bil From: "Louise Pettus" <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SCYORK] South Carolina Reserve Units, 1861-1865 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:23:38 -0400 >Bill Brasington, > >I have stumbled upon another youngster for you. His name is Adam Clark Ivy. >I don't have his dates but his parents were Rev. Adam Ivy and Jane (Spratt) >Phifer Ivy. They lived in Indian Land township, sometimes called the >Panhandle, the most northern section of Lancaster County. The Adam Ivy >house is still standing north of the village of Van Wyck. One of his >sisters wrote the following excerpt from a longer paper: > >A paper read to the U. D. C.¹s in 1915 >by Mrs. D. V. Baker >(Desdemona V. Ivy Baker10 Apr 1855-6 Jan 1936) > > Responding to a request from your President for some personal >reminiscences of the Reconstruction Period I must ask you to go back with >me 50 years to the time of an early childhood. Our home was in Lancaster >County, S. C. My father had been a planter and a slave owner. We lived in a >big 10 room colonial house on the Catawba River, on a plantation which was once owned by an Indian Chief, or King, and part of which is still known as King¹s Bottoms. > Our family consisted of parents, 12 daughters, and 2 sons. > My eldest brother left the university for the battle-fields, in response >to the first call for volunteers, after South Carolina seceded. He was >severely wounded at the battle of ³Seven Pines² and was never able to >return to service again. My father was too old and my younger brother too >young to serve, though he responded to the call of 16 year old boys near the close of the war, but was returned, without seeing service, after the fall of Atlanta. > I need not tell you who were all patriotic and loyal. You all know the history of the ³Old Palmetto State² and the part she took in the struggle of the 60¹s (sixties). > Our home was between Charlotte, N. C., and Camden, S. C., and in the neighborhood of the historic old Waxhaw settlementthe birthplace of Andrew Jackson. > The war was over, Lee having surrendered and Lincoln assassinated and slaves freed. New conditions were upon the South which she was wholly unprepared to meet or resist. > For weeks after the surrender you might see long lines of straggling, >ragged, footsore men plodding their weary way along the highways, bound for >distant homes, if such a desolated country could be said to offer homes. >Many found where homes had been, but only ashes remained to mark the spot, and graves had taken the place of loved ones. > The kind and generous hearts of our parents opened the doors of our home >to as many of these weary ones as we could take in, or administer to. My >mother cooked whole hams and great loaves of bread and kept the big pot of >parched wheat coffee ever ready for the hungry, while her hands never tired >of dressing wounds. Many times I stood by her side to hold the basin while >she washed the blood from long neglected wounds and sent the grateful boys >on their homeward way, refreshed and heartened. Poor ragged, bedraggled >heroes! Often their trousers were split to the knees and they were >barefooted and sometimes polluted with vermin, but they were from our universities, law schools and medical colleges and belonged to the wealth and refinement of the Old South. > Only one member of our family suffered pillage at the hands of Sherman, >for he passed around our little corner of the county thus leaving us in >better condition to care for this eldest sister (the late Mrs. J. W. Twitty) and her children who suffered the full fury of Sherman and his depredations. >. . . . >The older brother referred to was James Morrow Ivy who joined Hampton's Legion. > >Louise Pettus > > > >While much has been written on the CSA units who fought for South Carolina >in Virginia and in the West, almost no attention has been paid to the units >raised to protect the state within her borders. > >I did a great deal of research to find my great grandson and generated a lot >of information before I found him. Rather than loose the effort, I am >building 2 separate pages on these units and troops. The 8 battalions >raised in June of 1864 and the 4 regiments raised in November 1864 are the >focus of >1) http://freeweb.pdq.net/Bil_Brasington/SeedCorn.htm >with links to Camp Sorghum (Union POW Camp on Columbia) while the units >raised from 1861-1863 are on page >2) http://www.geocities.com/screbels_1864/SC_Militia.html >Their are searchable rosters for both and there is a link between the 2) to >1) > >I am trying to determine the county or counties each unit was raised and >personal information on the men (date.location born, died, and buried) along >with any service related information. > >If you have an ancestor or extended family born between 1846 and 1854 or >before 1820 that you have never found service for, look here, he may very >well be there. > >The best way to keep their memory alive is to document their involvement. >The final product I hope will be a research work I place in S C Archives. > >Bil Brasington >Houston, Texas > >Great grandson of John Samuel Brasington, 3rd Regiment, Junior reserves (Nov >1864-Apr 1865), a regiment of 16 year old boys > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com