Good evening all: The Col. George H. Nixon Camp #214 of Lawrenceburg will be holding its August meeting on Monday, August 26th at 7:00pm in the Lawrence County Public Library. Our program for the evening will be presented by Mr. Joe Davis from the Shiloh National Military Park of Hardin County, Tennessee. The meeting is open to the public and I invite any and all who have interest in history and the Civil War to attend! If you would like more information, please feel free to call on me. Jason Goodrich Lawrenceburg, Tennessee H: (931) 762-8890 or email: [email protected] W: (800) 380-1896 ext. 204 or email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Edgar D. Byler, III [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 6:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [TNWAYNE] Confederate soldier bio's LaRinda and anyone else interested: A biography should be just that. It need not deal only with a person's civil war service, although the thrust of our discussion has been on civil war memoirs and information. I've picked up several "stories" about relatives during the Civil War period. Families tend to pass down humorous events, and traumatic events. They are often colored by the person telling or retelling the story, but there are more than often grains of truth in all of them. I realize that we, at 146 years past the event, do not have living individuals with whom we can discuss the events of the war. Yet there are newspaper articles, letters, diaries, service records and loads of other materials which still survive although their lifespan is shrinking. You might check for pension records on an ancestor's compatriots. Sometimes they can provide detailed information about a unit's activities that would not show up in the service records. Just as an police or private investigator would interview a suspect/subject's neighbors, so should the genealogist. Where your ancestor might not have kept many records (or they might have been destroyed), it is possible that a neighbor may have had a diary or been a voluminous letter writer and kept track of all the neighbors. Sometimes a "nosy neighbor" isn't a bad thing! (and some of the diary entries and tidbits in letters can be real eye-openers!!!) Who would you send it to? Well you can send it to me if you want it posted to the Wayne County, TN Genealogy and History Page. Or perhaps Jerry would be open to having them posted to the list - I cannot answer for him on that. But if you want me to post it to the web page, send it to Edgar D. Byler, III at [email protected] You might also consider sending it for publication in the "Wayne County Historian" and you can do that by sending the biography to Allen Berry at [email protected] I'm sure Allen would be interested in using the biographies. If no one has any objections, I'll forward a copy of all bios I receive to Allen. Edgar ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 8:24 AM Subject: [TNWAYNE] Confederate soldier bio's > What would a bio consist of? All I really have is the unit they served in. > And, who would we send it to? > Thanks > LaRinda Middleton > > > ==== TNWAYNE Mailing List ==== > Visit the Wayne County, Tennessee Genealogy and History Page at > http://www.netease.net/wayne > > > ==== TNWAYNE Mailing List ==== Visit the Wayne County, Tennessee Genealogy and History Page at http://www.netease.net/wayne --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.380 / Virus Database: 213 - Release Date: 7/24/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.381 / Virus Database: 214 - Release Date: 8/2/2002