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Showing posts with label Nevada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nevada. Show all posts
Monday, May 4, 2020
John Ross Key, Engineer CSA-- Part 1: Yep, That Key Name
One of the men appointed to the Board to detail the defense of Fort Sumter and Charleston Harbor was John Ross Key. Well, last name of Key. Could he be related to that other famous Francis Scott Key?
The answer is yes, he was.
From the North Point Gallery site. Turns out John R. Key was quite the artist and mapmaker.
John Ross Key was born July 16, 1837, two months after the death of his father, and was raised until the age of five by his grandfather, none other that Francis Scott Key, who wrote, of course, "The National Anthem." His grandfather died in 1843.
As a teenager, he was forced to work to support his widowed mother.
His talent for drawing led to a job as a topographical artist and draftsman with the U.S. Coast Survey. In 1859, he was hired as mapmaker in the advance party of the Lander Expedition to chart the best overland through hostile Indian territories of Wyoming and Nevada.
In 1861, along with several other Francis Scott Key grandsons, he threw in his lot with the Confederacy.
--Old SeceshKey
Monday, August 17, 2015
Runaway Slave Joined Union Army and Finally Receives Recognition
From the June 8, 2015, National Post "Runaway slave who joined Union fighters in the U.S. Civil War and lost leg finally received recognition."
Reno, nevada. Received recognition June 7, 2015.
Private Scott Carnal of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry died in 1917 at around the age of 73 in Dayton, 40 miles south of Reno, was forgotten until recently. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Honey Springs in Oklahoma on July 17, 1863.
About 200 people attended his ceremony.
He was born in Virginia and joined the Union Army in Kansas in March 1863 shortly after running away from his master in Missouri. he was about 19 at the time.
His brigade played a major role in the Battle of Honey Springs, a turning point in the fighting west of the Mississippir River. The battle was fought mostly by black soldiers.
Mr. Carnal was shot in the thigh and the wound festered. Doctors amputated it nine years later. he was eventually given a pension. He married after the war and had a daughter. He headed west to mine gold and silver in Colorado and Nevada.
--Old Secesh
Reno, nevada. Received recognition June 7, 2015.
Private Scott Carnal of the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry died in 1917 at around the age of 73 in Dayton, 40 miles south of Reno, was forgotten until recently. He was severely wounded at the Battle of Honey Springs in Oklahoma on July 17, 1863.
About 200 people attended his ceremony.
He was born in Virginia and joined the Union Army in Kansas in March 1863 shortly after running away from his master in Missouri. he was about 19 at the time.
His brigade played a major role in the Battle of Honey Springs, a turning point in the fighting west of the Mississippir River. The battle was fought mostly by black soldiers.
Mr. Carnal was shot in the thigh and the wound festered. Doctors amputated it nine years later. he was eventually given a pension. He married after the war and had a daughter. He headed west to mine gold and silver in Colorado and Nevada.
--Old Secesh
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