Thanks ! Hey, thanks for the good service on the Death Certs !! It really was Brother against Brother. My Tinsley line came from Allen County, KY. One was Confederate and about six of them was Union. The War was bad enough, but like Danny and Jess said, the aftermath of the War was terrible. It makes a person wonder how they even survived. By God's Grace !!! I am like Danny, the War today is explained it was about Slavery !! That was not true. It was about States Rights !!!!! The South did not lose, both sides LOST !! People are not told that 25 % of the Southern Slave Owners were Freed Black Slaves ! Everybody wants to make the Slave Issue out of it. People need to read Letters from Robert E. Lee prior to the War. The Greatest General of the South, yet he did not believe in Slavery. But, he enlisted in his state of Virginia to support his homeland and it's rights. But yet, he is depicted as a General who lost the War. Thanks Katy !! Kevin --- kaitysmom <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Kevin, > > Hello, saw the mention of the Battle of Fort > Donelson and had to respond. I only live 20 minutes > from this battle site here in Tennessee and I also > have a 3rd. great-grandfather Oliver Coonrod that > fought for the north at this battle and my husband > had 3rd. great-grandfather that fought for the south > and was wounded and taken prisoner of war. I like > to tease my husband that my ancestor shot his!! > LOL!! > > Anyway, there is a great book that I have called > "Cry Havoc" by C. Wallace Cross that is about the > 49th Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment 1861-1865 > and the battle of Fort Donelson. It is very good > and goes into detail about the war. > > Thought I would just pass that along. > > In Christ, > Melissa Barker > Genealogy Researcher/Family Historian > RAOGK Volunteer > Have Access to Tennessee Death Certificates for > Years 1908-1954 for ALL Counties > Have Access to Tennessee Birth Certificates for > Years 1908-1912 for ALL Counties > Willing to Do Tennessee Document Searches and Some > Kentucky Document Searches > > WILL DO LOOK UPS!! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Kevin Morgan > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 6:04 AM > Subject: Re: [TNCANNON] The War > > > Probably meant Ft. Donelson, Battle of. This is > one > of the early battles of the War. I think most > people > in TN can relate to this. I had a CSA Soldier in > my > mother's family in it. For 140 years, my Mother's > Tinsley Line never knew what happened to him. He > joined in Glasgow, Ky to a CSA Cal. Unit. The > Family > knew he had fought at Ft. Donelson and never heard > from him after the War. A distant relative, who > was a > Tinsley and a reacher, had searched all of 81 > years > for him. In January, I had told her I would try to > find him. His name was Chrsitopher C. Tinsley. He > was > noted in the Unit Registration as C.C. Tinsley > also. I > used " Google " and typed in Christopher Tinsley > and > found several mentioned. Spent a lot of time and > page > after page. Then I had typed C.C. Tinsley and KY > in > the Google line and low and behold, it popped > right > up. Buried in a Confederate Cemetery in Okalona. > Mississippi. Had the exit Unit and Company on his > marker also. > So, you might be surprised to find some of these > Soldiers from Cannon County being buried > somehwhere > else. I had noticed sveral in the list were listed > as > dying as aPrisioner. So they might be buried in > another State. > Kevin Morgan > > --- m m <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thank you so very much.Where is this Donaldson > PLace > > entioned in these > > papers ? > > my Gr_GR Greandfather SAm Drinkard mentions > > Donnaldson PLace in his > > civil war records > > > > > > > > > > ==== TNCANNON Mailing List ==== > > Stop by & visit the Cannon Co. Genealogy and > History > > website at... > > http://www.tngenweb.org/cannon/ > > > > ============================== > > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 > million > > records added in the > > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the > > world. Learn more: > > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > > > > > > ==== TNCANNON Mailing List ==== > A complete Archive of past issues of this list may > be seen at.. > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/TNCANNON > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search > not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > > > > > ==== TNCANNON Mailing List ==== > Several people subscribe and unsubscribe from the > list each month. > You are encouraged to resubmit your queries once or > twice per year > to reach new listmembers. > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death > Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >

This has been really interesting to hear stories about Cannon County in the War. My own ancestors, Martin L. Blair and Sarah Turney had left Cannon County about 1848 for Searcy County, Arkansas, another rocky, hilly location. Martin's brother William was married to Sarah's sister Elizabeth, and they left for Searcy County as well. Other Turney family members were already living there. Anyway, Searcy county was very divided in opinion over the war. Martin is mentioned in a book by a Union officer as being a judge at a trial of a Union sympathizer. Our family legend is that he was later killed by "a bushwhacker". William, on the other hand, was conscripted into the CSA army, but deserted. He was later caught shooting at the CSA and tried for treason and executed. Hard, hard times. Hope we don't ever see these again! - Heather http://surgerysupport.uchicago.edu/hblair/