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Next week, I will be visiting my Great Grandfather's grave. I have never visited before, and just found out recently where it was.
He was born in 1838, and died in 1921. He is buried in Fayetteville Georgia, the CSA Cemetery.

Jack did the entire stretch of the Civil War. He joined with his brother, and his first cousin. All three were lucky, no sickness, no wounds and none of them died.
He never rose above the rank of Private. Company D, 46th Infantry Regiment, Army of Tennessee.
He fought at Jackson, Chickamauga, Atlanta.........
Lee surrendered on April 9th, Jack hung up his rifle on April 26th.

Good job Mannlicher with a gret story to go along with it. I was lucky enough to find my GGGgrandfathers grave in Scotland this last summer. He fought Napolean's troops in the Netherlands many years ago. It's kind of neat finding this all out. kwg

Very cool!

Lucas

I had about a dozen blood relatives that I know of who served the Confederacy. My 3rd Great Uncle died of disease in camp. My Mother's Great Grandfather was a Millwright who helped construct the defenses of Mobile Bay.

Both sides of my family served the Confederacy. I know of nobody on either who fought for the Yankees.

I have the letter that the Adjutant of one of my 3G Uncle's companies wrote for my Aunt when she applied for benefits. It states that he was a "good and faithful soldier" and was "with Lee at the surrender".

Sam,

Badass and principled.....and lucky. I'm betting he tolerated no fools.

Thanks for your family history.

That's a good piece of family history anyone would be proud of.

How did you obtain the specifics if you don't mind me prying. Letters, diary?

So was disease a big issue during the Civil war?

Badass and principled.....and lucky. I'm betting he tolerated no fools.
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Strenghthens the genetic traits argument a bit, doesn't it? grin

Huge. Typhoid,dysentery,pneumonia, malaria and of course infection probably killed more guys than rifle and cannon.

Very cool Sir. My family didn't get here till 1890's so I have no claims back that far.

Disease killed more men that battlefield wounds. The odds were 1/60 of dying on the battlefield or 1/13 of dying from disease. These numbers come from Ken Burns "Civil War" series.

Doc

I have heard it said that World War II was the first war in which more combatants died from enemy fire than died from disease.

By the way, I traced one of my Civil War ancestors, my Great-grandfather. He served in Co D, 44th REG, NC State Troops (CSA) during the war. He enlisted as a Private, eventually becoming a Second Lieutenant. He was shot by a sniper on Squirrel Level Rd, during the siege of Petersburg and died 10 days later. The family here in eastern NC sent after his body and buried him in the family cemetery out in the county near the town where I live.

My GGF was a school teacher in South Carolina, when the war started,he was a also known as a horse thief,by obtaining
stock for the Calvary by having his boys steal them at docks,they were meant for the Union.....Get'm Grandpa!!

A story is told of how he was always able to bring in Rum for the troops!
I've never found out what rank he was but with that forte,I would have made him a general!!

Barkoff,


A nephew has been digging for years. There were a few old aunts in Alabama that still had memory of him.
The service information is available on line in some cases. The easy way to look up a Confederate relative is to look in the archives of the Union for Parole information. In Jack's case, since he did not lay down his arms and ask for parole, there were no records for him.
My Mother supplied the place of interment. She is 93 now. Mom had not met Jack, as he died about 18 years before she married Pop, but she remembered visiting the grave during WW II. She was in nursing school then, at Emory University in Atlanta.

Twice as many soldiers died of disease as died of wounds. Surprisingly, most of the diseases would be considered childhood diseases.

Mine (Lycurgus Border)was an interesting fellow. Not talked about alot in the family. (None of that genetic trait crap Bob!)

http://books.google.com/books?id=Qr...mp;resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false

That's a cool read. I like the line about everyone getting acquitted, " 'cause that's how it was done in those days"