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Learned a bit about my family history today...
Rack Ops
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One of the cooler things I have in my home is a framed copy of the discharge papers given to my great, great, grandfather at the end of the civil war.
Until today, thats all I really knew about the man....just a name on a piece of paper at a single moment in time...today, I found out much more.
A local history article, written by distant cousin, told his story. I learned that he mustered into the Army in late '61, fought at Perryville and in the Georgia campaign until captured near King's Mountain, Ga. He spent nearly a year at Andersonville before being paroled at war's end.
Its amazing how much more interesting that piece of paper became now that I have a story to go along with the name.
Until today, thats all I really knew about the man....just a name on a piece of paper at a single moment in time...today, I found out much more.
A local history article, written by distant cousin, told his story. I learned that he mustered into the Army in late '61, fought at Perryville and in the Georgia campaign until captured near King's Mountain, Ga. He spent nearly a year at Andersonville before being paroled at war's end.
Its amazing how much more interesting that piece of paper became now that I have a story to go along with the name.
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I just learned a few weeks ago my grandfather did time in the clink for killing a federal agent.
why does that not surprise me [;)]
Thats a spooky place.
http://www.ibiblio.org/phha/Sellers.html
Robert R. Sellers, Seaman 2/C
U.S.S. Honolulu (CL-48), Dec. 7, 1941
I reported aboard the USS Honolulu April 16th 1941 and was assigned to the 1st Div. That manned and maintained the forward three turrets. They were 6 in.47 caliber guns that were designed for surface action. They were not anti aircraft guns. On the morning of Dec. 7th1941 we were tied up in the navy yard port side to the dock at the first finger pier across from the submarine base with the USS St. Louis tied to our starboard side and I was a mess cook at the time. A mess cook does not cook but sets up the tables for the meals being served and assists the ship cooks at the steam tables. He also cleans up the mess deck afterwards. On this morning we were almost finished with breakfast when people started running aft through the mess hall yelling Japanese planes were bombing us. At that point we heard the explosions and gun fire and at the same moment the general alarm sounded. The word was passed to go to your battle stations, mine was on the shell deck of the #2 turret.
When I arrived at my battle station I put on the sound powered head phones. I was the phone talker and could talk to the turret officer and the turret captain and also to the powder handling room. In the gun chamber where the turret officer was located they had a periscope through the top of the turret and could see what was going on around us so they were passing the word to us about what was going on outside telling us about the battleships being hit and sunk and on fire so that didn't do much for our nerves. Someone brought the Sunday comic section when they came to General Quarters I tried to look at it. I must have picked it up and set it down at least a dozen times. Finally I gave up. Then we received the word to secure everyone but the phone talker and go to top side and handle the lines for the St. Louis, they had power and were going to get under way. Our engine rooms were down and we were unable to get under way. So I was left alone on the shell deck and then the phone went dead and then I was really alone. I knew there wasn't any reason for me to even be there but no one gave me permission to leave.
There was a couple lulls from the noise for awhile. I sat down on the deck with my head under the shell tray for what reason I don't know but all at once there was one big explosion and the ship went up and down. I didn't think it would ever settle down. I did not know what had happened until later. A 250# armor piercing bomb from a dive bomber that missed the ship by 15 ft. and went through 141/2 inches of concrete of the dock and exploded underneath. There was no one killed but it caused a lot of damage to the hull and magazine handling room was leaking a bit. The bomb hit at frame 40 abreast the #2 turret. We were all very lucky that it wasn't closer to the ship. I left the shell deck about noon. I never did get permission to leave.
When I got on top side it was a very sickening sight to see all the damage and fires over on battleship row.It is believed that we shot down one plane. During the attack the Honolulu expended 250 rounds of 5 in. ammo. 4500 rounds of fifty caliber and 2800 rounds of 30 caliber. We entered dry dock Dec. 13th to repair the damage and left Pearl Harbor Jan. 2nd convoying some ships back to San Francisco and on Jan.30th 1942 we left San Francisco to escort the first American troops to Australia.
During the war the USS Honolulu earned 9 battle stars in the S. and S. W. Pacific,1 star for Pearl Harbor in the American defense, 1 star Philippine Liberation medal and a Philippine Presidential unit citation and the Navy Unit commendation ribbon. The Honolulu sunk one cruiser ,four destroyers and four planes and bombarded eight different Islands. The Honolulu was torpedoed three times. The first time we lost eighty feet of our bow and we were torpedoed again the first day of the landing at Leyte , P.I. The Honolulu in the first year and a half of World War 11 had developed an interesting reputation. Through some turn of fate, the ships directly astern of her habitually suffered from enemy action. The Northampton, Achilies, Helena and H.M.S. Leander were all either damaged or sunk while steaming in the number two position, by receiving a direct hit. Also a number of firsts can be chalked up on the Blue Goose's record. She made the first trip to Melbourne after December 7th; was in the first bombardment of Kiska; covered for the first American landings in Alaska; and fought in the first night battle using radar exclusively to control firing. I was aboard from April l941 to March 1946. She was mothballed in Philadelphia, Pa. And put in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet 1947 and was scrapped at Sparrow Point,Md. August 19,l960.
He died at Andersonville. Went with my parents and found his grave when I was little.
Which unit did your relative serve in? Depending on the unit, there may be a published regimental history that will give you more detailed information about what he was doing during the war. I have a lot of sources related to Civil War unit histories - if you can give me the unit, I will be happy to check and see if anything has been published on your relative's unit.
John Nichols: Company F, 24th Ky Mounted Infantry.
If you wouldn't mind, could you check to see if you can find anything on one more ancestor?
John Wysong: Company H, 29th Va Infantry.
According to family history, he fought at Five Forks and High Bridge before surrendering with Gen Lee at Appomattix.
of Vicksburg Mississippo. He was told by Captain Spears to go
home and get himself a horse. He was captured and imprisoned
in 1865 near Rogersville Tennessee near the river by the federals and taken to Knoxville prison until the surrender. He enlisted in
1861. Known aliances, Surgeon who treated him Carhomn J. Tool.
Friends I.B. Dykes. and John B. Dykes. who had enlisted in the
same company. Also Andrew J. Mathis was known friend for 32 yrs.
David S. Booker lived went home to his wife and had 8 kids.
Mariah Thompson Booker his wife was born in Hawkins county Tenn.
in 1841. My Great Great was born in Washington County Virginia in 1834. He David lived to be 78. He is buried, and has a civil
war marker up on a hillside near grassey Creek in Rogersville Tenn.
I walked up the hill and saw it.
James Walker Booker married Lievenia Ann Yankee and had 12 children.
He was my Grandma's father, and she was the 11th child. James took
the kids to Indian Territory of Oklahoma in 1898, and after an
uprising, malaria, and living on the Canadian river for 3 years
they left. Mostly from rumors the Indians were killing everything
in sight. They spent that winter in Rogersville cause the snow
was too deep to make it back to Grassey Creek.
It's great to learn the family history.[:)]
UNION KENTUCKY VOLUNTEERS
24th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry
Organized at Lexington, Ky., December 31, 1861. Attached to 21st Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to January, 1862. 21st Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 21st Brigade, 6th Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division. Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Army of Kentucky, Dept. of the OhIo, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, District of Central Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to June, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, to July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to August, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, to December, 1864. Louisa, Ky., Military District of Kentucky, to January, 1865.
SERVICE.-Moved to Louisville, Ky., January 1, 1862; thence to Bardstown, Spring Garden (on Salt River) Lebanon and Munfordsville, Ky. March to Nashville Tenn., February 17-25. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 21-April 6. Battle of Shiloh April 7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August. March to Nashville, Tenn.; thence to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg, August 21-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-22. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 22-November 7. Ordered to Frankfort, Ky., November 24 and duty there till January, 1863. Moved to Louisville, Ky.: thence to Nashville, Tenn. Owing to smallpox breaking out on boat Regiment quarantined above Nashville till February; then moved to Winchester, Ky., and duty there till March. At Mt. Vernon and Wild Cat engaged in outpost duty till June 1. Moved to Lancaster, thence to Camp Nelson, Ky. Burnside's March over Cumberland Mountains and campaign in East Tennessee August 16-October 17. Carter's Depot September 20-21. Jonesboro September 21. Watauga September 25. Knoxville Campaign November 4-December 23. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 5. Armstrong's Hill November 25. Longstreet's assault on Fort Saunders November 29. Blain's Cross Roads December 17. Operations about Dandridge January 16-17. 1864. Strawberry Plains January 22. Operations in East Tennessee till April. Moved to Cleveland, Tenn., and Red Clay, Ga. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September. Demonstrations on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 8-13. Battle of Resaca May 14-15. Cartersville May 20. Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Near Marietta June 1-9. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Lost Mountain June 15-17. Muddy Creek June 17. Noyes' Creek June 20. Cheyney's Farm June 22. Olley's Creek June 26-27. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Isham's Ford Chattahoochie River, July 8. Decatur July 19. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Utoy Creek August 5-7. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Near Rough and Ready August 31. Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. At Decatur till October. Ordered to Lexington, Ky. and duty there till January, 1865. Mustered out January 31, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 28 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 174 Enlisted men by disease. Total 207.
Gggrandfather? Thank you. Mouse.
http://books.google.com/books?id=mC0dAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA50&dq=24th+kentucky+infantry&lr=#PPP3,M1
REGIMENT: 29th Infantry Regiment Virginia
Date of Organization: 5 Nov 1861
Muster Date: 9 Apr 1865
Regiment State: Virginia
Regiment Type: Infantry
Regiment Number: 29th
Regimental Soldiers and History: List of Soldiers
Regimental History
Battles Fought
Fought on 10 Jan 1862 at Middle Creek, KY.
Fought on 5 May 1862 at Williamsburg, VA.
Fought on 15 Jul 1862 at Kentucky.
Fought on 13 Oct 1862 at Kentucky.
Fought on 15 Oct 1862 at Lexington, KY Hospl.
Fought on 15 Oct 1862 at Kentucky.
Fought on 16 Oct 1862 at Richmond, KY.
Fought on 17 Oct 1862 at Lexington, KY.
Fought on 30 Oct 1862 at Madison County, KY.
Fought on 30 Oct 1862 at Richmond, VA.
Fought on 30 Oct 1862 at Richmond, KY.
Fought on 1 Feb 1863 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 4 Mar 1863.
Fought on 15 Apr 1863 at Suffolk, VA.
Fought on 24 Apr 1863 at Suffolk, VA.
Fought on 5 May 1863 at Suffolk, VA.
Fought on 14 May 1863 at Drewry's Bluff, VA.
Fought on 15 May 1863 at Suffolk, VA.
Fought on 15 Jun 1863.
Fought on 3 Jul 1863 at Gettysburg, PA.
Fought on 15 Jul 1863 at Chester Gap, VA.
Fought on 21 Jul 1863 at Chester Gap, VA.
Fought on 24 Jul 1863 at Green Springs, VA.
Fought on 24 Jul 1863 at Cherry Run.
Fought on 24 Jul 1863 at Winchester, VA.
Fought on 15 Aug 1863 at Carroll, VA.
Fought on 15 Sep 1863.
Fought on 15 Sep 1863 at Carroll, VA.
Fought on 17 Sep 1863 at Zollicoffer Station, TN.
Fought on 20 Sep 1863 at Zollicoffer Station, TN.
Fought on 24 Sep 1863 at Carroll, VA.
Fought on 15 Nov 1863 at Russell, VA.
Fought on 17 Nov 1863 at Floyd County, KY.
Fought on 8 Dec 1863 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 3 Feb 1864 at New Berne, NC.
Fought on 10 Mar 1864 at Suffolk, VA.
Fought on 30 Mar 1864 at Ivor Station, VA.
Fought on 30 Mar 1864 at Cherry Grove, VA.
Fought on 1 Apr 1864 at Louisa, KY.
Fought on 1 Apr 1864 at Dinwiddie Court House, VA.
Fought on 3 May 1864 at New Berne, NC.
Fought on 5 May 1864 at Suffolk, VA.
Fought on 8 May 1864 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 10 May 1864 at Drewry's Bluff, VA.
Fought on 12 May 1864 at Drewry's Bluff, VA.
Fought on 12 May 1864 at Halfway House, VA.
Fought on 12 May 1864 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 13 May 1864 at Fort Darling.
Fought on 14 May 1864 at Drewry's Bluff, VA.
Fought on 14 May 1864 at Fort Darling.
Fought on 15 May 1864 at Drewry's Bluff, VA.
Fought on 16 May 1864 at Howlett House, VA.
Fought on 16 May 1864 at Drewry's Bluff, VA.
Fought on 18 May 1864 at Howlett House, VA.
Fought on 21 May 1864 at Richmond, VA.
Fought on 22 May 1864 at Hanover Junction, VA.
Fought on 28 May 1864 at Richmond, VA.
Fought on 28 May 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 1 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 2 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 3 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 6 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 7 Jun 1864 at Chuckatuck, VA.
Fought on 11 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 15 Jun 1864 at Cold Harbor, VA.
Fought on 16 Jun 1864 at Howlett Line, VA.
Fought on 16 Jun 1864 at Howlett House, VA.
Fought on 16 Jun 1864 at Fort Howlett, VA.
Fought on 1 Jul 1864 at Bermuda Hundred, VA.
Fought on 12 Aug 1864 at Carroll County, VA.
Fought on 15 Sep 1864 at Howlett House, VA.
Fought on 15 Sep 1864.
Fought on 18 Sep 1864 at Martinsburg, WV.
Fought on 2 Oct 1864 at Bermuda Hundred, VA.
Fought on 4 Oct 1864.
Fought on 1 Nov 1864 at Howlett Line, VA.
Fought on 10 Dec 1864 at Howlett Line, VA.
Fought on 29 Mar 1865 at Dinwiddie Court House, VA.
Fought on 30 Mar 1865 at Dinwiddie Court House, VA.
Fought on 31 Mar 1865 at Five Forks, VA.
Fought on 31 Mar 1865 at Dinwiddie Court House, VA.
Fought on 1 Apr 1865 at Five Forks, VA.
Fought on 1 Apr 1865 at Farmville, VA.
Fought on 1 Apr 1865 at Dinwiddie Court House, VA.
Fought on 1 Apr 1865 at Southside Railroad, VA.
Fought on 1 Apr 1865 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 1 Apr 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA.
Fought on 2 Apr 1865 at Ford's Depot.
Fought on 2 Apr 1865 at Five Forks, VA.
Fought on 2 Apr 1865 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 2 Apr 1865 at Hatcher's Run, VA.
Fought on 3 Apr 1865 at Petersburg, VA.
Fought on 3 Apr 1865 at Petersburg, VA Hospl.
Fought on 3 Apr 1865.
Fought on 3 Apr 1865 at Dinwiddie Court House, VA.
Fought on 3 Apr 1865 at Richmond, VA.
Fought on 3 Apr 1865 at Richmond, VA Hospl.
Fought on 4 Apr 1865 at Sutherland's Station, VA.
Fought on 4 Apr 1865 at Jetersville, VA.
Fought on 5 Apr 1865 at Farmville, VA.
Fought on 6 Apr 1865 at High Bridge, VA.
Fought on 6 Apr 1865 at Sailor's Creek, VA.
Fought on 6 Apr 1865 at Jetersville, VA.
Fought on 6 Apr 1865 at Farmville, VA Hospl.
Fought on 6 Apr 1865 at Burkeville, VA.
Fought on 6 Apr 1865 at Farmville, VA.
Fought on 6 Apr 1865 at Amelia Court House, VA.
Fought on 9 Apr 1865 at Appomattox Court House, VA.
Fought on 15 Apr 1865.
I know, I have more than 3 relatives on this board.[:D]
David Booker (First_Last)
Regiment Name 39 Tennessee Mounted Inf. (Col W.M. Bradford's Reg't Vols. 31 Tenn. Inf.)
Side Confederate
Company D
Soldier's Rank_In Private
Soldier's Rank_Out Private
CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
39th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry (W. M. Bradford's) (31st Infantry)
39th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 31st (W.M. Bradford's) Regiment, was organized in March, 1862, and in April contained 363 effectives. It members were from the counties of Sevier, Blount, Jefferson, Hawkins, McMinn, Greene, and Monroe. For a time the unit served in the Department of East Tennessee, then was attached to A.W. Reynolds' Brigade in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. A detachment of the 39th captured the Federal gun boats Queen of the West and Indianola, and later the regiment spent forty-seven days in the trenches of Vicksburg where it was captured on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged and reogranized as mounted infantry, it was assigned to General Vaughn's Brigade. The unit contained 272 effectives April, 1864, moved to the Valley of Virginia, and lost forty-one percent of the 118 engaged at Piedmont . Later it participated in various engagements and surrendered at Asheville, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865. The field officers were Colonel William M. Bradford, Lieutenant Colonel James W. Humes, and Major Robert McFarland
quote:Originally posted by nemesisenforcer
I just learned a few weeks ago my grandfather did time in the clink for killing a federal agent.
why does that not surprise me [;)]
I couldn't guess.[:p]
TIA,
OleDuk[:)][:)]
Small world. My grandpa served on the USS Honolulu as well. For the most part he was always pretty quiet about the whole thing, but he did tell me about being torpedoed, and how they had to seal the compartments; said the heat and smell of death permeating the ship was really tough on people. Apparently one fella went crazy from it and went through the mess deck stabbing sailors as they slept on the tables -- killed one or two and injured some others.
He was the disbursing and supply officer (Frank Pollard).
I didn't see your grandfather registered in the WWII Memorial. You ought to enter his info on-line:
http://www.wwiimemorial.com/registry/edit/donor_nameaddr.asp
Few interesting things I didn't know:
My Great-Grandfather, Willard York, served in WWI.....I still haven't figured out the particular details, but I'm working on it.
I believe I may have found another great, great, great grandfather, Reuben York, who served in the Civil War (126th Ohio Infantry).
The wife claims to have run across someone who traced her people (the Johnsons) back to about 1200, in Scotland.
May I ask where you try to get your intel from? I am interested in learning about my family history.
I played around a bit on FamilySearch.org....I couldn't find much information, but they have some excellent free software for building a tree.
Ancestry.com offers a two week free trial....thats what I'm working with right now....the census data, in particular, is excellent.
The Immigrant wasn't so holy. He was sued for killing a neighbour's horse, fined for not going to church, and admonished for chaining his wife to the bedpost 'in order to keep her indoors'.
A great-uncle was the chaplain on Arizona and was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
CONFEDERATE NORTH CAROLINA TROOPS
48th Regiment, North Carolina Infantry
48th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in March, 1862, at Camp Mangum, near Raleigh, North Carolina. Men of this unit were recruited in the counties of Union, Davidson, Iredell, Moore, Chatham, and Forsyth. Ordered to Virginia, the regiment was assigned to General J.G. Walker's and Cooke's Brigade. It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Fredericksburg, then moved to Pocataligo, South Carolina, where it was stationed until August, 1863. Returning to Virginia, the 48th was involved in the conflicts at Bristoe, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor. It then endured the hardships of the Petersburg siege south of the James River and the Appomattox operations. It reported 18 killed and 70 wounded at Oak Grove, lost over fifty percent of the 400 in the Maryland Campaign, and sustained 175 casualties at Fredericksburg and 123 at Bristoe. The unit surrendered with 12 officers and 87 men. Its commanders were Colonels Robert C. Hill and Samuel H. Walkup; Lieutenant Colonel Albert A. Hill; and Majors B.R. Huske, William H. Jones, and Francis L. Wiatt.
Tennessee, Civil War Confederate Pension Applications Index
about David S. Booker
Name: David S. Booker
Unit Served: 31st Infantry
State Served: TN
Application Type: Soldier
Application Numbers: S7171
Application Location: Hawkins, TN
Note: The name Booker, David S. appears on a Tennesse Confederate Application
Info: A photocopy of this pension application may be obtained from the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Please contact the Tennessee State Library and Archives for pricing and availability at the following address: Tennessee State Library and Archives, R
Civil War Prisoner of War Records, 1861-1865
about David Booker
Name: David Booker
Side: Confederate
Roll: M2072_1
Roll Title: List of Confederates Captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 4, 1863
quote:Originally posted by Lucky_Lefty
May I ask where you try to get your intel from? I am interested in learning about my family history.
I played around a bit on FamilySearch.org....I couldn't find much information, but they have some excellent free software for building a tree.
Ancestry.com offers a two week free trial....thats what I'm working with right now....the census data, in particular, is excellent.
Fair warning Rack. Genealogy research is highly addictive!
May I ask where you try to get your intel from? I am interested in learning about my family history.
Like Rack mentioned. Go to ancestry.com and sign on for two free weeks. Then get yourself a year's subscription, don't fool with the month to month.