Download or read book Pittsylvania Civil War Soldiers Logan Guards Chatham Grays of the 53rd Virginia Infantry written by Robert Lee Snow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Logan Guards and Chatham Grays were in the 53rd Virginia Infantry, one of the five regiments under Brigadier General Lewis Armistead at Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. This book gives the storyline of the 53rd Virginia, including order of battles, prison camps endured, and casualties per battle. The book centers on finding the genealogy of the men of Pittsylvania County. Prior works by the author are two books which extensively covered the genealogy of Pittsylvania County soldiers: ""38th Virginia Infantry: Finding the Men in the 1860 Census"" and ""57th Virginia Infantry: Finding the Men in the 1860 Census"".
Download or read book Pittsylvania Civil War Soldiers of the 18th Virginia Infantry written by Robert Lee Snow and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives the summary of battles and cites hardships endured by the 18th Virginia Infantry in the Civil War. The 18th Virginia was in some of the largest and most pivotal battles, including Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, 1st Manassas, 2nd Manassas, Sharpsburg(Antietam), Fredericksburg, Five Forks, and Appomattox. In addition to covering the Civil War storyline, the book includes genealogical detail on the approximately 525 men who were in Pittsylvania County companies A, B, and I. Initial works by the author were ?38th Virginia Infantry: Finding the Men in the 1860 Census? and ?57th Virginia Infantry: Finding the Men in the 1860 Census?. Subsequent works have been to concentrate on finding life details on the remaining Pittsylvania Civil War Soldiers. ""Pittsylvania Civil War Soldiers: Logan Guards & Chatham Grays of the 53rd Virginia Infantry"", and ""Pittsylvania Civil War Soldiers: Chalk Level Grays & Turkey Cock Grays of the 21st Virginia Infantry.""
Download or read book Civil War Soldiers of Pittsylvania Virginia written by Robert Snow and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the culmination of a search for the unknown Confederate Soldiers of Pittsylvania County, Virginia. Prior study by the author covered over a dozen Regiments and over 40 Companies that were recruited in Pittsylvania County. That research led to speculation that numerous Pittsylvania men enlisted in Regiments in bordering counties. The hypothesis was proven, and the results were astounding. It all began with Finding the Men in the 1860 Census.
Download or read book Pittsylvania Civil War Soldiers written by Robert Lee Snow and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives the saga of the 21st Virginia Infantry in the Civil War, and centers on finding life details on Pittsylvania County men of the 21st Virginia Infantry: the Chalk Level Grays, and the Turkey Cock Grays. Under leadership of Generals Stonewall Jackson and Jubal Early, the 21st Virginia Infantry took part in some of the most crucial, vicious, and intriguing battles of the Civil War. Major conflicts they participated in included battles of Kernstown, Malvern Hill, 2nd Manassas, Cedar Mountain, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, Lynchburg(1864), Monocacy, Washington, D.C., 3rd Winchester, Fort Stedman, and Appomattox. Previous works by the author, ?38th Virginia Infantry: Finding the Men in the 1860 Census?, and ?57th Virginia Infantry: Finding the Men in the 1860 Census?. The research begins with finding the men in the 1860 census, and is expanded as records allow.
Download or read book Pittsylvania Civil War Soldiers written by Robert Snow and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives the saga of the 21st Virginia Infantry in the Civil War, and centers on finding life details on Pittsylvania County men of the 21st Virginia Infantry: the Chalk Level Grays, and the Turkey Cock Grays. Under leadership of Generals Stonewall Jackson and Jubal Early, the 21st Virginia Infantry took part in some of the most crucial, vicious, and intriguing battles of the Civil War. Major conflicts they participated in included battles of Kernstown, Malvern Hill, 2nd Manassas, Cedar Mountain, Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, Lynchburg, Monocacy, Washington, D.C., 3rd Winchester, Fort Stedman, and Appomattox. Previous works by the author, "38th Virginia Infantry: Finding the Men in the 1860 Census",and "57th Virginia Infantry: Finding the Men in the 1860 Census". The research begins with finding the men in the 1860 census, and is expanded as records allow.
Download or read book Take Care of the Living written by Jeffrey W. McClurken and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take Care of the Living assesses the short- and long-term impact of the war on Confederate veteran families of all classes in Pittsylvania County and Danville, Virginia. Using letters, diaries, church minutes, and military and state records, as well as close analysis of the entire 1860 and 1870 Pittsylvania County manuscript population census, McClurken explores the consequences of the war for over three thousand Confederate soldiers and their families. The author reveals an array of strategies employed by those families to come to terms with their postwar reality, including reorganizing and reconstructing the household, turning to local churches for emotional and economic support, pleading with local elites for financial assistance or positions, sending psychologically damaged family members to a state-run asylum, and looking to the state for direct assistance in the form of replacement limbs for amputees, pensions, and even state-supported homes for old soldiers and widows. Although these strategies or institutions for reconstructing the family had their roots in existing practices, the extreme need brought on by the scope and impact of the Civil War required an expansion beyond anything previously seen. McClurken argues that this change serves as a starting point for the study of the evolution of southern welfare.
Download or read book Henry County Virginia Civil War Soldiers written by Robert Lee Snow and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From my study of the various companies that were predominately Pittsylvania men, I found over 100 men in those companies came from Henry County. The Henry County men who traveled to Pittsylvania to enlist were most prevalent in Company K of the 38th Virginia Infantry and Company F of the 57th Virginia Infantry. A dozen or more were scattered throughout the Danville Artillery, the 18th Virginia, the 21st Virginia and the 53rd Virginia Infantries. The 9th, 14th, 38th, 53rd, and 57th Virginia Infantries would be in Lewis A. Armistead's Brigade as of May of 1862, so three of five regiments had Henry County men. Battles would include Seven Pines, Malvern Hill, Gettysburg, Chester Station, Drewry's Bluff, Five Forks, and Appomattox. The 18th Virginia Infantry would participate in the same battles, but were also present at the 1st Battle of Manassas.In previous books, I worked on finding Civil War soldiers primarily from Pittsylvania County. My strategy was to go through every page of the 1860 Pittsylvania County census, making note of all men born between 1818-1846. There would be a small percentage of soldiers that did not fit the age range that I planned on searching for later. I apply the same strategy here. There were 178 pages of the 1860 census of Henry County, with room for 40 names per page, so nearly 7,200 people. I listed my interpretation of the names of men in Henry County in 1860 who were born between 1818-1846. That number was 1,426 men. The next step would be to search, man by man, for matching records in the service records.
Download or read book Danville in the Civil War written by F. Lawrence McFall and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pittsylvania County Virginia written by Larry G. Aaron and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen of Virginia's tobacco-producing counties, one of the top five fossil sites in the world, home to heroes, adventurers, counterfeiters and innovators...Pittsylvania County's lush, rolling farmland has seen a host of significant events and personalities throughout its nearly three centuries. Join local historian and longtime resident Larry G. Aaron as he guides you through Pittsylvania's rich and remarkable history, from the achievements and sufferings of Pittsylvanians through all of America's major wars to the lives of the county's African Americans and the early history of neighboring Danville, the last capital of the Confederacy. A concise, enjoyable volume that you will treasure for years to come.
Download or read book Dancing on the Dan written by David Leatherwood and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history, bookended by wars, of a family deeply rooted for over a century along the banks of the Dan River. It begins with the progenitor arriving in that idyllic Virginia countryside, and concludes with his great-grandchildren leaving it. There is a little of each of us in this story of fortunes won and lost, pioneering spirits, and human frailty. The book focuses primarily on the lives of individuals spanning three generations: William Williams (circa 1728-1780), James Mastin Williams Sr. (1763-1838), and Robert Walker Williams (1807-1865). The experiences of their contemporaries are also selectively explored, to better understand the context of the times. This work is concerned with humans rather than heroes. Like many proud families, ours has its icons. James Mastin Williams, Sr., lionized by others as a child soldier and the founding father of Danville, is certainly among the legends. My work suggests there are grains of truth in the tales about him, but, as the old storyteller himself would have appreciated, there is also considerable exaggeration. Dancing on the Dan goes where the evidence leads, and, in so doing, distinguishes oral tradition from documentation. What little has been written elsewhere about this family is silent on the subject of slavery. The institution of human bondage played a central role in the daily lives of the 17th and 18th century Williams family, and is consequently examined here in as much detail as the incomplete historic record allows.
Download or read book The History of Pittsylvania County Virginia written by Maud Carter Clement and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1973 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book rings with the names of early inhabitants and prominent citizens. For the genealogist there is the important and wholly fortuitous list of tithables of Pittsylvania County for the year 1767, which enumerates the names of nearly 1,000 landowners and property holders, amounting in sum to a rough census of the county in its infancy. Additional lists include the names, some with inclusive dates of service, of sheriffs, justices of the peace, members of the House of Delegates, 1776-1928, members of the Senate of Virginia, 1776-1928, clerks of the court, and judges.
Download or read book Pittsylvania County Virginia History Of written by Maud Carter Clement and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By: Maud Carter Clement, Pub. 1929, Reprinted 2018, 380 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-848-X. Pittsylvania County was created in 1767 from Lunenburg and Halifax Counties. This well-documented book not only covers the county from its creation but also includes material form its parent counties as well the contiuous counties of Bedford, Campbell, Franklin, Henry, and Patrick. Besides the traditional information found in similar books of the era, such as discussions of: Indians, First settlements, creation of the county, its involvement in the French and Indian War along with the Cherokee War, Churches/Religion, Pre and Post Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War and WWI. All of this helps in developing path ways and ideas of how the citizens of the county dealt with the development of the county. The reader will also discover a 1767 list of tithables of the county with the names of approximately 1,000 land and property owners. This book has loads of extremely useful and detailed tidbits of genealogical information along with mini biograpkies of these early settlers interdispursed through out the book included within the tremendous numbers of footnotes. The reader may discover those lost relatives thru the mentioning of marriages, Wills, Deeds, Military and Court records. The index within this book menttions approximtely 5,000 individuals.
Download or read book 38th Virginia Infantry written by Robert Snow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 38th Virginia Infantry was organized in May and June of 1861, in the southern Virginia counties of Pittsylvania, Halifax, and Mecklenburg. Seven of the ten Companies were recruited in Pittsylvania, thus it was called the Pittsylvania Regiment. Less than a year prior, census takers unknowingly finished recording for posterity the men who would go to war. An in depth study shows seven Virginia counties and six North Carolina counties bordering the recruitment area of Pittsylvania, Halifax, and Mecklenburg would contribute men to the 38th Virginia. The 38th Virginia Infantry was in the field of battle from Yorktown in April of 1862, to Appomattox on April 9, 1865. The largest losses suffered were at battles of 7 Pines, Malvern Hill, Gettysburg, Chester Station, and the 2nd Battle of Drewry's Bluff. Herein is detail on the orders of battles, the prison camps endured, and the names of parents and wives of the soldiers, with focus on the census of 1860.
Download or read book Civil War Plants Herbs written by Patricia B. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861 1865 written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Southerners at Rest written by Chris Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work corrects many errors contained within the 1869 register and publication by the Ladies Hollywood Memorial Association originally published in booklet form as: Register of the Confederate Dead.
Download or read book High Tide At Gettysburg The Campaign In Pennsylvania written by Glenn Tucker and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ““Gettysburg had everything,” Henry S. Commager recently wrote. “It was the greatest battle ever fought on our continent; it boasts more heroic chapters than any other one battle. It was the high tide of the Confederacy.” This is the way Glenn Tucker has always seen it and this is the way he reports it in High Tide at Gettysburg. The story of Gettysburg has never been told better, perhaps never so well as in this volume. Glenn Tucker has the immediacy of a war correspondent on the spot along with the insights that come from painstaking research. The armies live again in his pages. In his big, generous book Glenn Tucker has room to follow Lee’s army up from Chancellorsville across Maryland into Pennsylvania. With Jackson recently killed, Lee had revamped his top command. When Meade’s men caught up with the Confederates and the two armies were probing to locate each other’s concentrations, Mr. Tucker’s account becomes sharper, more dramatic. His rapidly moving, vivid narrative of the three-day battle is filled with fascinating episodes and fresh, stimulating appraisals. Glenn Tucker is akin to Ernie Pyle in his interest in people. With him you meet Harry King Burgwyn, “boy colonel” of the 26th North Carolina, just turned twenty-one, who slugged it out with Col. Henry A. Morrow of the 24th Michigan until few survived on either side. You feel the patriotic surge of white-haired William Barksdale, who led his Mississippians on the “grandest charge of the war” and died as he broke the Federal line. You sense the magnetism of Hancock the Superb, and feel the driving power of rugged Uncle John Sedgwick as he hurried his big VI Corps to the battlefield. With Old Man Greene you struggle in the darkness to save the Culp’s Hill trenches. And much more. Mr. Tucker weaves in many sharp thumbnail biographical sketches without slowing the action. Many North Carolinians, previously slighted, here receive their due. Full, dramatic, immediate, here is Gettysburg.”
