Pics to share- A Lilred History tour

[Lilred]

I dare not show all the pics I have...Petey would have a fit with the space being took up...lol
I'm off this week (semi-vacation) so I've been cannin, cannin, cannin (whew) and workin on the kids' scrapbooks. Mostly scannin & printin copies of some pics I have. Stupid me the best ones I aint done yet, but I'll post em iffin ya'll are interested when I get em done. Anyways...with every pic is a story so I'll tell the story with the pic. I know some of you are history freaks like me so i hope you enjoy.

I have alot of civil war stuff from both main sides of my family. I have alot of family members in the war but only remnants of direct lines and such.
There were 4 brothers that served in the Civil War on my fathers side. William, Andrew, Edward & John. Their father, Alexander, stayed home in Staunton but was tormented by Capt Hunter, USA who camped on the farm LOL....tore his farm plum to pieces and they took everythin he had. There were thousands of soldiers camped there, he wrote the government askin fer money back for his losses and his brother (a judge in Staunton) signed the letter fer him to back him up so to speak. They never gave him a dime...lol

Edward was my great (3) grandfather and Alexander my 4th.

3 brothers all joined the 14th VA Calvary except fer Edward. He enlisted in the 52nd VA Inf because his wife's youngest brother was in the 52nd and he promised to look after him.
They all enlisted at the start of the war.
His wife's brother died of disease and Edward transferred to the 14th to join his brothers.

William was the youngest of the 4. He was captured at Greenbrier in 1862. (The Yanks snuck in on the camp of the 14th, dismounted and unprepared)
He was shipped to camp chase, ohio and then transferred to Ill. He died there of "chronic diarrehea".

[Lilred]

Edward was either stupid, brave or just had major bad luck lol....he was wounded at Manassas, Gettysburg & Fredericksburg and was captured in Nov 1864 at Ninevah. He was sent to Point Lookout Prison in Maryland. He survived and was paroled in May 1865 after the war was over.
In letters a freind of his wrote to his wife in Stanton, Beale said about Edward " like the redskin he will charge with gallantry but for the wounds he receives. I am unsure he would not survive this war if not for the large roan".

my reckonin is that he was just plum crazy...lol

[Lilred]

Andrew...to make a long story short...enlisted at the start and the crazy fool survived all 4 years. He was in alot of major battles and followed Lee to Appomatox. He surrendered there in 1865.
Of the 34 men of the 14th that surrendered at Appomatox, he was the only man from his Company. That poor man must have felt really rough lol...I hear he as mean as a snake too..that probaly helped :rolleyes:

[Lilred]

Here's a pic of Andrew...I have one of William & Edward too...but I aint scanned them yet..

[Lilred]

John I know little about...I know he survived the war. I know he was not on the muster rolls in 1863, I believe he was wounded and discharged.
On my mother's side I only have documentation on one of the 3 brothers that served. He was James Allen Wells. ( my 3rd great grandfather)He was wounded at Phillippi in 1861 and he had to get a leg amputated.

[Lilred]

My (3) great grandmother...everybody says she looks like me...MEAN lmao :rolleyes:

[Lilred]

Last one....family pic

[Gunslingergirl]

That's so cool that you have all that stuff. Family history is fascinating.

[BILLY D.]

Lilred

I always admire you lucky folks who can trace your lineage back so far.

The worst thing a soldier had to worry about in those days was a trip to the hospital. Especially a field hospital. Diseases were rampant and a wound on a limb meant almost certain amputation or worse.

Gangrene and dysentary were prevalent. As were lung diseases. Whenever a mass of people are confined to small places this happens. In animals it's known as kennel cough. Remember when you first started school, in the first couple of weeks after class started all the kids were coughing, hacking and wheezing?

You can be justly proud of your familys battlefield activities. I can only imagine what they went through.

My hat is off to them.

Best wishes, Bill

[gspsonny03]

Lilred,
Great information. I'm really surprised that you have managed to keep your documentation in such good condition. Usually through the years someone gets careless with it and/ or some disaster happens and it gets ruined.
Thanks for sharing and especially the stories.

[Dan Morris]

I've still got a framed release from a Union Prison Camp of GGGrandfather. Cpl in 41st Mississippi infantry. Camp Chase Ohio...dated 1865. Only document that survived the years....
most of it was scavenged by relatives when my mom died......had to order them out of the house.....funny how they come out of the woodwork.
Dan

[skeeter@ccia.com]

very nice history ...my wife's side of family has lots of history back in the civil war days too...pictures etc etc....very nice information....like to read more if have it.

[BILLY D.]

Hey Lilred

That look is not mean. It is just serious or intense. Typical of the day. Think what those people went through. Also it was not stylish to smile in a photograph in those times.

She is certainly well coiffed and dressed in the style of the times. A very enchanting woman.

Bill

[skeeter@ccia.com]

So what became of this big house?...... Is it still there?.......YOu live in it?.....

[Aim to maim]

Originally posted by skeeter@ccia.com
So what became of this big house?...... Is it still there?.......YOu live in it?.....

I'm obviously not Lilred, but I think she'll tell you that the "big house" is indeed still there, though she does not live in it. Someone even more famous than Lilred once lived there.

[Valigator]

That was cool Lilred, I am collecting information on my Dad's side... that would be a hoot if we were related....

Morris
Hildebrand
Gunn

[Lilred]

LOL Val....as wide as our tempers are..it wouldnt surprise me a bit iffin we were related! Mine are Wells, Anderson, Campbell and McCall....(all scots but the wells)

Billy, you are right...nobody ever took a pic smilin back then. The other thing that's funny...the pics are so small! Metal backs and all...some in paper frames. I will post more on a different thread, I never got around to scannin those pics like I wanted the other night so I still gotta do that.
As fer as the house...I dont have nary a clue who that house belongs to. Some of my folks are in it.

Speakin of folks..here's one of my grandma & grandpa...check out their cool ride in the back...lol

[BILLY D.]

Thats a neat photo. Looks to be a late 30's to 40's car, and it looks like a coupe or club coupe. Can't tell which brand though.

Us teenyboppers took those cars in the 50's and stuck Caddy and Olds engines in them to make hot rods. Did you notice THE taillight? Mechanical turn signals were still in the future. You actually had to stick your hand out the winder to signal for a turn. Hand down meant slow or stop, hand horizontal meant left turn, hand vertical meant right turn. You actually had to pay attention in those days.

By the way, not to be disrespectful, but Grandma was a Hottie. :)

Best wishes, Bill

[Lilred]

lol Billy...grandma was beautiful in her day. Her mother was a cherokee from the western part of va...her father a scot from mtns too. Mom says her hair was the coal black. My mother's hair is (well used to be) the same way.
She died in childbirth when she was 37.

[BILLY D.]

Hey Lady

Now theres one you can 'splain to me. I thought all the Cherokees were displaced to the west. Wasn't that called "the trail of tears" if I remember from my grade school history?

A history lesson from you please. And that brings to mind another question. A lot of the Southern folks that I knew in they military were of Cherokee ancestry. I just never asked any of them how that happened.

Bill

[Lilred]

Yer correct there Billy...but...in the southwest va/northern nc mtns...there were a few who snuck by the masses. I dont know the exact number...but I do know that later on in the mid 1800's, they were granted the use of land in nc in hopes that the remaining cherokee from Tenn, VA and GA would kinda group up there and not cause no trouble.
I'm not sure if my ggggrandparents were there er not. I do know that they have been livin in the mtns of VA since at least 1900.
Family stories say they hid in the mountains and never left their ancestrial home, but I have no proof of that.

I give em credit fer bein hardheaded...their families survived because of them.