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1865 Fort Blakely ...

pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
.....My GGF fought in the this battle...read the clipI live within in a mile....Cannons will be booming all morning..lest we forgethttp://www.al.com/news/mobile/index.ssf/2015/03/re-enactors_to_fire_up_civil_w.html#incart_river
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  • allen griggsallen griggs Member Posts: 35,692 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Great story! You must be so proud of your great great grandfather.

    I wish my ancestors had some gallant battle history in the Civil War but as far as I know, nothing. They were Yankees living in Wisconsin at the time of the war, as best I can figure out they sat it out.
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  • pwilliepwillie Member Posts: 20,253 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by allen griggs
    Great story! You must be so proud of your great great grandfather.

    I wish my ancestors had some gallant battle history in the Civil War but as far as I know, nothing. They were Yankees living in Wisconsin at the time of the war, as best I can figure out they sat it out.
    MY GGF wasn't to much gallant,but he was fighting an invasion.....A kid 18 years old doesn't know what he is fighting for other than for his family....His brother Ira Creel was captured and paroled 3 time(Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Spanish Fort) before the wars end...46th Mississippi, Co. I...
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