From carolana.com.
Major General Joseph B. Kershaw
Brigadiers
James Cantey
James Chesnut Jr. Wife was Mary Chesnut who wrote the famous diary.
Zachariah C. Deas
John Doby Kennedy
John Bordenave Villepigue
Old Secesh
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
Showing posts with label Confederate Diary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Confederate Diary. Show all posts
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
150th Anniversary Stirs a Trove of Memories
From the Dec. 26, 2011, Fox News.
There is a diary with a life-saving hole in it and a homemade Valentine's Day card.
The Valentine is on pink paper shaped like a heart using an intricate basket weave and was sent to Confederate soldier Robert H. King by his wife Louisa. King was killed in 1862.
There is also a diary kept by a soldier in his breast pocket. It stopped a bullet that would have killed him. Thankful, no doubt, but the soldier continued writing in it. Of course, he had to write around the hole.
Just Some Interesting Little Bits of the War. --Old Secesh
There is a diary with a life-saving hole in it and a homemade Valentine's Day card.
The Valentine is on pink paper shaped like a heart using an intricate basket weave and was sent to Confederate soldier Robert H. King by his wife Louisa. King was killed in 1862.
There is also a diary kept by a soldier in his breast pocket. It stopped a bullet that would have killed him. Thankful, no doubt, but the soldier continued writing in it. Of course, he had to write around the hole.
Just Some Interesting Little Bits of the War. --Old Secesh
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Confederate Diary Going Home
The March 22nd Clark County, Washington, Columbian ran an article "Civil War soldier's diary going home" by Dean Baker.
While going through some things in a late aunt's effects in Downey, Ca., Mitch Hammontree found a leather-bound book and found that it was the diary of a Confederate soldier.
After a lot of research over both the internet and telephone, the descendants of the soldier, A. S. Quarterman, and will hand it over to them next week.
Quarterman was a member of a prominent , Ga, family, and had kept an account of the famous Liberty Mounted Rangers during the war. He listed them and occasionally crossed names of and entered "dead" behind their names.
After tracing on the internet, Hammontree started making telephone calls to Quatermans in the Savannah area. He found Elton and Joan Quarterman, whose great-great-great grandfather Keith Axton Quarterman, a Condeferate Army surgeon, was A.S.'s brother.
At first, the Quartermans wanted to know how much Hammontree wanted for the diary, but he said he'd just give it to them because it was their family history.
Now This is a Great Story. --The Old B-Runner.
While going through some things in a late aunt's effects in Downey, Ca., Mitch Hammontree found a leather-bound book and found that it was the diary of a Confederate soldier.
After a lot of research over both the internet and telephone, the descendants of the soldier, A. S. Quarterman, and will hand it over to them next week.
Quarterman was a member of a prominent , Ga, family, and had kept an account of the famous Liberty Mounted Rangers during the war. He listed them and occasionally crossed names of and entered "dead" behind their names.
After tracing on the internet, Hammontree started making telephone calls to Quatermans in the Savannah area. He found Elton and Joan Quarterman, whose great-great-great grandfather Keith Axton Quarterman, a Condeferate Army surgeon, was A.S.'s brother.
At first, the Quartermans wanted to know how much Hammontree wanted for the diary, but he said he'd just give it to them because it was their family history.
Now This is a Great Story. --The Old B-Runner.
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