Assorted libraries around the country have complete sets of The Confederate Veteran. The City of Alexandria, VA and Lib of Congress in my area have them. I believe the Dallas and Houston libraries have complete sets. Occasionally, I've extracted data and submitted to the Ellis Co., TX website as well as one I sent to a SC website about a proud ole veteran (a black man) who proudly marched in each of the CSA Vets parades in Columbia, SC. If any of researcher's have CSA veteran who moved to Texas I suggest they take a look at a book called "Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray 1861-1865, compiled by Miss Mamie Yeary, McGregor, Texas. Morningside Press reissued the book in 1986 which was a reprint of the 1912 edition. If the CSA vet participated in CSA veterans camps then his name, together with a description of his service record can likely be found in this book. In some cases a long story about events that happened to him are described by the veteran. Some of the stories! seem to have been "enhanced" a-bit. Ruth -----Original Message----- >From: Dortha Greenlee <[email protected]> >Sent: Aug 18, 2006 10:20 PM of >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [LCT] Confederate Veterans > >The "Confederate Veteran" was a small magazine that was published for >veterans. My great nephew sent me copies from two different ones that >contained members of my McKinney family. One was in 1912 when my grandfather >, John J McKinney, died, and another written about 1900-1901. The articles >were both written by my grandfather's brother-in-law. His name was A H >MCALLISTER, a Dentist from Blue Mountain, MS. The earlier article was >written about the McKinney "boys" serving in the Confederacy with him, and >about the death of their father, William H McKinney. William McKinney had >been stopped by the Yankees and ordered to take an oath of alligence, which >he declined to do. They shot him and beat him and placed him in a military >prison in Memphis, TN. The name of the prison was the "Irwin Block Prison". >I've been told it was such a bad place that when Lincoln was informed about >it, he closed it down, or made changes, etc. > >I would like to see more of these. I believe my nephew told me he had >bought copies of these old magazines. > >Dortha McElroy Greenlee > > > >==== TNLINCOL Mailing List ==== >Visit the LCT GenConnect system at: >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/board/rw/localities.northam.usa.states.tennessee.counties.lincoln > >============================== >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 >