Fern I guess my mind going bad. I can't remember where online I saw list of names om Franklin County Settler Map. I have the map, but name list was great. The page gave history of the County. My lines of Bedford/Franklin County Va are Preast/Preas, Parker, Turner, Overstreet, Clayborn, Tyler and Sinclair. Gerald Preas Dallas TX --- Fern <rumycuzn@bresnan.net> wrote: > Hi Gerald - what a great website - BUT, when I tried > to enter the site in my > own website the address gives the "National parks" > website. I put it in my > Surrr-fin page. I wonder what I'm doing > wrong.?.?.?. It shows the same > address you posted below. > > fern > www.bufordfamilies.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "GERALD PREAS" <gpreas@swbell.net> > To: <vabedfor@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:35 PM > Subject: [VABEDFOR] War Between the States (Civil > War) > > > > This is free site for checking for War Between The > > States, and click on unit for more info for > location > > mustered. The main problem is this site didn't > > mention 58Th Va proudest moment at Sharpsburg > > (Antietam) Md. This was bloodest day in American > > History until WW11. The 58Th Va plugged gap in > > southern line at the Dunker's Church, "Ole Jube " > > Early of Franklin County Va was commanding Gen > under > > Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson. These troops had > marched > > from Harper's Ferry Va back to Sharpsburg Md to be > > engaged in the major action. My Ben T Overstreet > was > > wounded at Sharpsburg, 17, Sept 1862, he was over > 40 > > at the time. He had several brothers, > brothers-in-law > > all in 58th Va. My 2nd great-father, John Henry > Preas, > > had one brother die of Measles, another wounded. > > The 58th Va marched over 500 miles in one month. A > > good book is "58th Virginia Infantry" by Robert J > > Driver, Jr. In his book the 58th Va had to eat > green > > corn and apples many times due to supply problems. > A > > Maryland native described the Southern Army as > being > > dirty, unshaven, but very polite, and only entered > if > > invited into a home. This was printed in another > Civil > > War magazine. There was some rumor that the 58th > lost > > their flag, but also, 58th was last unit to > surrender > > at Appomattox. > > Gerald Preas > > > > > > http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/soldiers.cfm > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > To post to the list, email: VABEDFOR@rootsweb.com > > To contact the list admin, email: > VABEDFOR-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to > > VABEDFOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > To post to the list, email: VABEDFOR@rootsweb.com > To contact the list admin, email: > VABEDFOR-admin@rootsweb.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to VABEDFOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message >