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Showing posts with label Lynchburg Virginia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lynchburg Virginia. Show all posts
Sunday, October 4, 2020
The Family of Col. Benjamin Lewis Blackford
I wrote about him a lot in my Running the Blockade blog back in November and December 2013. I am having to go back to that time and redo my entries as I was unable to use paragraphs for seven months. I was redoing an entry on him (he was not impressed with the Wilmington, N.C., area when posted there during the war.
So I looked him up on Find-A-Grave. He was there, but there was no information about him, but I did find some history about him in 29 September 2010, Virginia Memory Out of the Box "A Surveyor's View of Wartime Virginia."
He was born in 1835 in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to William Matthews Blackford (1801-1864) and Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford (1802-1898) who was an anti-slavery activist. At age ten, Lewis and his family moved to Lynchburg, Va..
When the war began, Lewis and his four brothers joined the Confederate Army, despite their mother's strong pro-Union sympathies. Lewis enlisted in Co. G, 11th Virginia in April 1861, but left in May to join the Confederate Engineering Corps and spent the war making maps in Virginia and North Carolina.
Lewis had the reputation in his family of being a little too easy-going. Although two wartime romances ended badly for him (one of them was in Wilmington, N.C.), nether seemed to keep him down for long.
--Old Secesh
Friday, May 16, 2014
Confederate Graves Found At Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg, Va.
From the May 5, 2014, Lynchburg (Va) News Advance "Archaeologists map Civil War-era graves at Old City Cemetery" by Katrina Koerting.
Four archaeologists are digging a 45-ft by 10-ft trench within "Yankee Square" at Old City Cemetery using shovels and brooms and dig down ten inches. They have found Confederate graves in Yankee Square.
They want the cemetery staff to identify the boundaries of Yankee Square so they can match the site to a book that documents where soldiers were buried. Once that is done, markers will be placed to identify those buried.
The search is being funded by a $2,500 grant from the Virginia Department of Historic Records. Work began in April 2013. In the first phase, 50 graves were identified of the 180 soldiers buried in Yankee Square.
Originally, just Union soldiers were buried there, but soon Confederates soldiers who had died of disease (usually small pox) were also interred.
The whole of Yankee Square is not being searched as red clay shows where the soldiers' hear or feet were and orange clay/soil means the site was untouched by burial. The graves are aligned in rows and columns.
--Old Secesh
Four archaeologists are digging a 45-ft by 10-ft trench within "Yankee Square" at Old City Cemetery using shovels and brooms and dig down ten inches. They have found Confederate graves in Yankee Square.
They want the cemetery staff to identify the boundaries of Yankee Square so they can match the site to a book that documents where soldiers were buried. Once that is done, markers will be placed to identify those buried.
The search is being funded by a $2,500 grant from the Virginia Department of Historic Records. Work began in April 2013. In the first phase, 50 graves were identified of the 180 soldiers buried in Yankee Square.
Originally, just Union soldiers were buried there, but soon Confederates soldiers who had died of disease (usually small pox) were also interred.
The whole of Yankee Square is not being searched as red clay shows where the soldiers' hear or feet were and orange clay/soil means the site was untouched by burial. The graves are aligned in rows and columns.
--Old Secesh
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The Lame Lion of Lynchburg
From Wikipedia.
Back on October 5th, I wrote about John W. Daniel speaking before the veterans of the Stonewall Brigade at the Grand Reunion in Staunton, Virginia, in 1900. He was called "The Lame Lion of Lynchburg." I had never heard of him or his nickname. Some research was called for.
John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) American lawyer, author and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia, where he was born and grew up at the Point of Honor mansion owned by his father who was a friend of Thomas Jefferson and physician of Patrick Henry.
John Daniel served in the Virginia House of Delegates and five terms as US Senator.
Served in the Confederate Army from 1861-64, rising to the rank of major and serving on the staff of General Jubal Early. He was seriously wounded at the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness and so disabled that he resigned his commission.
There is a statue of him in Lynchburg in the triangle formed by 9th and Floyd streets and Park Avenue. He is seated and holding crutches. Daniel is considered one of Virginia's foremost orators.
I was unable to find out anything about the particulars of his injury.
Old Secesh
Back on October 5th, I wrote about John W. Daniel speaking before the veterans of the Stonewall Brigade at the Grand Reunion in Staunton, Virginia, in 1900. He was called "The Lame Lion of Lynchburg." I had never heard of him or his nickname. Some research was called for.
John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) American lawyer, author and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia, where he was born and grew up at the Point of Honor mansion owned by his father who was a friend of Thomas Jefferson and physician of Patrick Henry.
John Daniel served in the Virginia House of Delegates and five terms as US Senator.
Served in the Confederate Army from 1861-64, rising to the rank of major and serving on the staff of General Jubal Early. He was seriously wounded at the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness and so disabled that he resigned his commission.
There is a statue of him in Lynchburg in the triangle formed by 9th and Floyd streets and Park Avenue. He is seated and holding crutches. Daniel is considered one of Virginia's foremost orators.
I was unable to find out anything about the particulars of his injury.
Old Secesh
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Confederate Hospital Building Collapses in Lynchburg, Va.-- Part 2
Nineteen tobacco factories were turned into hospitals. Only two remain standing and the structure at 612 Dunbar is one of them.
Structural engineers are looking into the building, but most, including the owner, think it is too late to save it. There were many years of neglect that took a toll.
Lynchburg became a huge hospital because of the many railroads connecting the city with Richmond and other points in the state. Civil War medicine being what it was, 2,200 Confederates from 14 states died, most of whom are buried in the Old City Cemetery. A monument there has the names of the states on it.
In 1964, a raid by Union General Hunter almost captured the city, but was driven off.
Let's hope the city or someone saves the last remaining hospital.
Saving the Heritage, One Piece at a Time. --Old Secesh
Structural engineers are looking into the building, but most, including the owner, think it is too late to save it. There were many years of neglect that took a toll.
Lynchburg became a huge hospital because of the many railroads connecting the city with Richmond and other points in the state. Civil War medicine being what it was, 2,200 Confederates from 14 states died, most of whom are buried in the Old City Cemetery. A monument there has the names of the states on it.
In 1964, a raid by Union General Hunter almost captured the city, but was driven off.
Let's hope the city or someone saves the last remaining hospital.
Saving the Heritage, One Piece at a Time. --Old Secesh
Confederate Hospital Building Collapses in Lynchburg, Va.-- Part 1
From Feb. 2nd ABC 13 News, Lynchburg, Va. "Historic Lynchburg Building to Be Demolished."
I knew about the huge Confederate hospital in Richmond, Va. (Chimborazo, I think), but did not know about the role Lynchburg, Va., played in caring for Confederate wounded during the war until I came across this article.
Dunbar Drive is now shut down because of a building collapse at 612. Before the Civil War, the building was a tobacco factory, one of many that were converted into hospitals for Confederate wounded as casualty lists climbed.
By 1864, Lynchburg had become the second largest hospital area for Confederate soldiers (not sure if that was just Virginia or the whole Confederacy, but guess it would be the whole country considering the amount of fighting taking place in that state.
More to Come. --Old Secesh
I knew about the huge Confederate hospital in Richmond, Va. (Chimborazo, I think), but did not know about the role Lynchburg, Va., played in caring for Confederate wounded during the war until I came across this article.
Dunbar Drive is now shut down because of a building collapse at 612. Before the Civil War, the building was a tobacco factory, one of many that were converted into hospitals for Confederate wounded as casualty lists climbed.
By 1864, Lynchburg had become the second largest hospital area for Confederate soldiers (not sure if that was just Virginia or the whole Confederacy, but guess it would be the whole country considering the amount of fighting taking place in that state.
More to Come. --Old Secesh
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