Pics to share- A Lilred History tour

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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".