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| Author: | Cruces [ Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:18 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Great Historical Site |
It lists the names of Soldiers and Sailors who served in the Civil War. I have discovered that 135 soldiers served in the Civil War with the surname of Elkin I even found myself Elkin, David Union Infantry 27th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry The site is located at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ In looking up the regiment Wiki says that it served in the 1864 Knoxville campaing Quoting the site: The 27th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Rochester, Kentucky and mustered in for a three year enlistment on March 21, 1862 under the command of Colonel Charles D. Pennebaker. The regiment was attached to 19th Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 19th Brigade, 4th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, November 1862. District of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863. Unattached, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio, to August 1863. Unattached, Munfordville, Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to October 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, to November 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Department of the Ohio, to April 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, to June 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps, to December 1864. 2nd Division, District of Kentucky and Department of Kentucky, to March 1865. The 27th Kentucky Infantry mustered out of service on March 29, 1865. How cool is that? Col Elkin AotT |
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| Author: | WTisdale [ Thu Aug 26, 2010 7:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Great Historical Site |
Thanks for the information. This is a great site. |
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| Author: | Drex [ Thu Aug 26, 2010 11:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Great Historical Site |
It must not have a complete database because I could not find my antecedent, Pvt. Edmund Dayton of the 36th Wisconsin Infantry, yet he is listed in the OR. |
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| Author: | Digglyda [ Sat Sep 11, 2010 6:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Great Historical Site |
Just noticed this thread as I have not been visiting the new style club forum that much since the switch. Cruces' comment about finding "himself" in the records reminded be of a similar experience I had myself. I've done a couple of tours round the Normandy battlefields as part of summer holidays in past years including visits to a large number of military cemeteries (not a particularly morbid habit in the context of the visit generally). From the Teutonic heroism imbued by the dark atmosphere in the German cemetary at La Cambe, the grand scale of the immaculate American cemetery at St Laurent and the modest intimacy of the British cemetery at Bayeux (British war grave commisssion sites are typically modelled along the style of an English country garden) you get a very good sense of the lesson you should come away with. I was strolling between the plots at Bayeux stopping occasionally to read the inscriptions at random (with over 4000 graves you would be hard pushed to read all of them in a single visit) and after a while your mind starts to haze over at the similarity of the names and dates and ages etched on the headstones of the men buried there (the British soldiers stones nearly always depict the emblem of the Regiment they served with, which is useful for for recognising the distribution of casualties once you have a knowledge of the various designs). I got to the end of one row and as I was about to move on I stopped abruptly. Something had registered that I hadn't quite absorbed immediately. I worked my way back down the line checking each stone and about 5 or 6 back I found it: Private J. Wilkes Warwickshire Regt 7th June 1944 age 26 My name, beneath the "Digglyda" username, is James Wilkes. My Birthday is the 7th June 1971 and my age at the time of the visit to the cemetery was 26. Furthermore, Warwickshire is the county that my Paternal side of the family come from. My own Father did basic Infantry training with the Warwicks before joining the Parachute Regiment for his National service (as a 20 year old lance-corporal, he had veterans of Arnhem under his command during his time serving in Egypt!). The sense of shock is imaginable and certainly served as a very personal reminder of the reason for visiting in the first place. Upon returning home I did some researching into my namesakes grave but unfortunately the material available online was limited. I did discover that he was in actual fact a "John" and not a "James" like myself. I certainly made sure to place a stand of flowers on his grave on a subsequent return to Normandy. |
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