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Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label genealogy. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 4, 2026

My 1st Confederate Ancestor: Levi Gross, 5th Ky Mounted Infantry

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One topic I’ve discussed over the years on this page has involved the exploration of the lives and service of Civil War ancestors I discover...
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Letters from a Civil War Relative #14: Unknown Date and Place

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This is the next-to-last entry in this series which has taken me weeks to post.  I want you to tri to rite to me oftner than you deo for you...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Letters from a Civil War Relative #13: July 9, 1862 from Camp Cottrell

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Camp Cotterl Clabern Co Tennessee July the 9 day 1862 My dear father, I seet my self once more to let you no that I am well at this time, ho...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

Letters from a Civil War Relative #12: July 5, 1862, from Camp Cottrell

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Camp Cotterl Claborn Co Tennnessee July the 5 day 1862 My Dear father, I seet my self this mornin to drop you a few lines to let you no that...
Saturday, September 27, 2025

Letters from a Civil War Relative #10 June 29, 1862, from Camp Cottrell, Claiborne Co., TN

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Here is the next letter to Joel Stamper, this one written by Lewis Reynolds on Richard's behalf. There is some surprising (to me) bravad...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Letters from a Civil War Relative #8: May 11, 1862 from Camp Cumberland

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  Richard Stamper sends another message home, again on patriotic stationery. I suspect Lewis Reynolds wrote this one for him.   I hope this ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Letters from a Civil War Near Relative #7: Undated from Edward Turner

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This time it is Edward Turner's turn to write and let Joel Stamper know how he is doing. It is interesting to see that Joel had been all...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Letters from a Civil War Relative #4: December 16, 1861, from Camp Calvert

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Today’s letter is the fourth I’ve published here.I believe there will be 14 or 15 total depending on how I decide to handle a couple of unda...
Thursday, August 7, 2025

Letters from a Civil War Relative #2: October 27, 1861 from Camp Wildcat

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Here is part two in this series of letters from the pension file of my 5 times great-granduncle Joel Stamper, whose son Richard and son-in-l...
Sunday, July 27, 2025

An Exciting New Personal Project: Letters from a Civil War Ancestor

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As I continue my exploration of local Civil War soldiers and their stories, I’m adding another project, one that combines the Civil War with...
Sunday, March 17, 2024

Richard Stamper, 7th Kentucky Infantry: An Ancestor who Perished in the War

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One of my interests in the war has been finding out about family members who served in the war. As this  separate page shows, I have found ...
Tuesday, February 15, 2022

William Orlando Tarvin, Co. F 53rd Kentucky Infantry

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An unexpected aspect of my quest to identify as many Campbell County Civil War Soldiers and  Sailors was the discovery of more of my distant...
Thursday, April 8, 2021

My Genealogical Connection to Dr. Samuel Mudd

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The most surprising find I have (I started to say recently, but maybe I should state ever)  made in my family history research, especially a...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2021

Alexander McCormick, Co. B 9th MN Infantry, my 3x great-grand-uncle

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My most recent genealogical find confirmed that John Fleming McCormick of Pennsylvania was my 4th great-grandfather, the son of John McCormi...
Monday, February 8, 2021

Benjamin McIntosh 14th KY Cavalry

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 Another Civil War ancestor recently came to my attention, this time my 3rd great-granduncle, Benjamin McIntosh, the brother of my 3rd great...
Friday, January 22, 2021

More Distant Cousins in the War

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One of many twists and turns my current project - which I hope will end up with a book in a few years - has taken is the discovery of some d...