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    1. Re: [SHIVER] Shiver's in the Civil War
    2. I will tell this story again, in case some of you missed it before. There is a book on 2nd Ga and Capt John M Shiver ended up as its commander at end of war. He was from Barnesville, GA area before the war, an area famous for making buggies. After the war he went to Americus, where the family later had a lumber co and for years there was a Dick Shiver there on the radio. Anyhow, John M ws on in years before he was married. He died when his only child, a son, was still an infant. They buried him in his uniform and the only thing that his son had to go by, as far as his father, was a photo of him in uniform. When the boy was in his 30's his mother died. As had been her wish, the grave was opened and she was buried in the coffin with her husband. When asked by someone at this undertaking, how he thought his father looked? Hs reply was classic, "About like I thought he would."

    11/28/1999 03:12:08