U.S. Civil War 1860-1870

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Comment by Edward Douglas Fitts on April 4, 2013 at 3:35pm

Family Tree magazine e news letter says that Fold3 is commenurating Confederate History month by allowing free viewing of their Confederate records during April 2013. please check this out for those who are looking for information.

Comment by Robert Olson on April 3, 2013 at 7:55am

Thank you Al and Liz for your posts,

The families I am researching in Missouri are McDonalds. They moved from Virginia in the 1850’s and by the start of the Civil War were operating several saw mills and had 160 acre farm south of Chillicothe. I suspect you are right about them likely being involved in unsanctioned activities for the south.  I think I need to do more research on General Slack because I suspect he unofficially recruited sympathizers for certain purposes or raids and did not officially induct them into the CSA military.

Since I know that my gg grandfather (Crocket McDonald) was captured at the battle of Lexington or Springfield, I like the idea of seeing if I can find out who captured him. I have been looking at the Missouri Provost Marshall records because they were basically the law of the land after Marshall Law was declared. They have good records and I actually discovered quite a bit. There is a good report about the McDonald family being robbed by a band of Union sympathizers. It lists everything that was taken down to my gg grandmother’s pocket pistol and my gg grandfather’s watch. On several occasions reports were made to the Provost Marshalls that the McDonalds were sheltering bushwhackers and hiding them in their corn fields, giving them guns, etc. But the brothers continued living on and working the farm so for some reason they were never arrested. That may have had something to do with them being a fairly prominent family in the area.

I do have some journal documents where my gg grandmother talks about raids from ‘Redlegs and Jayhawkers’ coming from Kansas. At one time she said she could see 11 farms burning from her front porch. Near the end of the war they had their farm burned as well.

With what I know so far, I believe these men may have been part of the Missouri Partisan Rangers or Bushwhackers, but their names do not show up in the well known groups like Quantrill’s Raiders.

I am brand new to this site and I noticed after my post that there is a small group that appears to be dealing with Missouri in the Civil War. I think I will try asking around there as well.

Thanks again and best regards.

Comment by Al Dawson on April 2, 2013 at 8:17pm

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Comment by Robert Olson on April 2, 2013 at 9:31am

I am researching my 2nd great grandfather and his brothers and cousins participation in the Civil War. In the mid 1850's they moved from Virginia to Missouri. I know they were southern sympathizers because I have found where they declared themselves as 'disloyal' and also I know my gg grandfather was captured and taken to Gratiot Prison in St. Louis. He was later released or exchanged and signed an oath to the US which I have a copy of. I also have copies of several reports made to the Provost Marshall stating that My gg grandfather and some of his brothers rode of with Capt. Slack and participated in the battles of Lexington and Springfield. These reports also say that he and his family were known to shelter bushwackers and supplied guns to them. I have been unable to find any of their names listed on any Confederate rosters. I know Capt. Slack was made a General under Gen. Price and I have evidence Slack recruited these men but no evidence of them being in the CSA military. Any thoughts? 

Comment by Dori Emerson Lloyd on April 1, 2013 at 7:02am

P.S....  None of the records attached to Peter McKinney have his age listed... are there any Civil War records that would have a soldier's age? This is his "record" info:

Name:	Peter McKinney
Service Info.:	PVT CONFEDERATE STATES Army
Death Date:	3 Jan 1864
Interment Date:	3 Jan 1864
Cemetery:	Finn's Point National Cemetery
Cemetery Address:	R.F.D. No. 3, Box 542 Fort Mott Road Salem , NJ 08079
Buried At:	Section Cm Site 1429

Comment by Dori Emerson Lloyd on April 1, 2013 at 6:58am

Hello,  I have many ancestors who served in the Civil War (CSA) but have two things that interest/puzzle me:  1) John S. McKinney (GA) served in the Co. H-First Choctaw and Chickasaw Mounted Rifles.  That is a clue that we actually do have NA in us--it was John S.'s grandson, my grandfather, who never had to shave (and never had a beard), yet I suppose this is anecdotal...   2) John S.'s father, Peter McKinney supposedly signed up to fight in Pulaski County, GA (they lived in Berrien Co.) and then supposedly died in battle and was buried in New Jersey.  All the Ancestry.com Trees have this.  I doubt it, because at the time of his enlistment as a Private he would have been 57 years old, and that seems wrong to me.  Any thoughts about either?  Thanks!

Comment by S. J. Cruse on December 2, 2012 at 1:45am

Jim, I apologize. I miss wrote--I mean Gettysburg and yes would like to join.

Comment by Al Dawson on December 1, 2012 at 7:00pm

My third active-service Civil War great-great-grandfather was an in-law of Milton Arthur Mason (see below) as their children married.  Jeroboam Baer Creighton (known as "John" or "Jerry" - or, in the family, J. B.") was not at Gettysburg or Chickamauga.  But he is perhaps unique among Civil War veterans!  First because be had served earlier in the Mexican War.  Secondly because he had three enlistments in the Civil War, Army, Navy, Army.  His pension card shows that he served on two Mississippi boats:  USS Clara Dolson and USS Indianola.  He caught a fever and was taken, by train, back to Akron.  It was this experience that led him to design a sleeper car - but he did not patent it.  A model resides, according to family legend, in the Smithsonian.

Comment by Al Dawson on December 1, 2012 at 6:12pm

And Heman's regiment served in The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863 - oddly enough, my ancestor Milton Arthur Mason (another great-great-grandfather) was wounded in that battle.  

Comment by Al Dawson on December 1, 2012 at 6:05pm

And in July, 1863, Heman F. Dawson was not in PA but AL:

During June and July, 1863, the regiment was at Tullahoma, 

Cowan and Anderson Station and occupying Bridgeport, Ala., 
where the brigade was commanded by Colonel Lytle.

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