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My blog about depression and mental illness: https://bit.ly/3buGXH8 Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 14,164 Status: Offline     RE: Memorial Day Reading    Posted: 5/28/2013 12:24:06 AM  Thanks for sharing, JSF.  That's one incredible story.  A very good Memorial Day read.  The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top oldkatz General User Member Since: 12/22/2004 Post Count: 1,423 Status: Offline     RE: Memorial Day Reading    Posted: 5/28/2013 8:51:26 AM  Great story.  Thanks for the referral, Jeff. "All my inside sources tell me I have no inside sources." Salvatore "money bucks" Mafiosiano. Back to Top Robert Fox General User Member Since: 11/16/2004 Location: Knoxville, TN Post Count: 2,039 Status: Offline     RE: Memorial Day Reading    Posted: 5/29/2013 10:01:49 AM  That is a great story. Some real creative talent in some of those units, naming tanks "Besotten Jenny" and "Boche Buster." Back to Top MedinaCat General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Lakewood, OH Post Count: 741 Status: Offline     RE: Memorial Day Reading    Posted: 5/30/2013 3:29:37 PM  Good read, thanks for referral.  I tried to google earth/bing the castle in article and couldn't find it.  Name change or no longer existing? Back to Top JSF General User Member Since: 1/29/2005 Location: Houston, TX Post Count: 6,429 Status: Offline     RE: Memorial Day Reading    Posted: 5/30/2013 9:00:32 PM  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itter_Castle "Loyalty to a hometown or city is fleeting and interchangeable, but college is a stamp of identity."- Kyle Whelliston, One Beautiful Season. My blog about depression and mental illness: https://bit.ly/3buGXH8 Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 14,164 Status: Offline     RE: Memorial Day Reading    Posted: 6/1/2013 2:54:40 PM  A different war, but here's an interesting story of how a photograph of a Union solider, who died within 20 days of sitting for the photo, was finally identified after about a century and a half using some good detective work: http://www.militarytrader.com/military-trader-news/civil-war-photo-id-help-found-in-a-tip-of-the-cap Putting a name to the face of this patriot after all of these years is something that helps bring closure to at least one family's sacrifice.  There are literally thousands and thousands of other unidentified Civil War photos that are not identified and most will never be.  That's sad. The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. Learn more about the old 78th at: http://www.78ohio.org Back to Top JSF General User Member Since: 1/29/2005 Location: Houston, TX Post Count: 6,429 Status: Offline     RE: Memorial Day Reading    Posted: 6/1/2013 4:44:11 PM  Civil War fun fact: The last widow of a Civil War veteran died in 2004. 2004! http://www.nbcnews.com/id/5106000/ns/us_news/t/last-widow.../ "Loyalty to a hometown or city is fleeting and interchangeable, but college is a stamp of identity."- Kyle Whelliston, One Beautiful Season. My blog about depression and mental illness: https://bit.ly/3buGXH8 Back to Top OhioCatFan General User Member Since: 12/20/2004 Location: Athens, OH Post Count: 14,164 Status: Offline     RE: Memorial Day Reading    Posted: 6/1/2013 6:15:47 PM  Yes, this is amazing, perhaps even more so is that circa 2000 there were three still living.  The Sons of Union Veterans hosted a gathering in which they all showed up, as I recall.  One of the three was the widow of a member of a United States Colored Infantry regiment.  My memory is a little foggy on if these three were all Union widows or if it included the Confederate widow mentioned in your link.  I tried to find a link to a story about this gathering that was in The Banner (official SUV publication) but I couldn't find it.  All of these women, of course, were -- in today's parlance -- trophy wives.  P.S. A less charitable view would be to call them "gold diggers" who were after the old guy's pension.  P.P.S.  SUV is now officially SUVCW (Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War), but I still use the old name most of the time, as do many members.  The major reason for the change is that too many idiots out there in Peoria, Podunk and MTV-land thought that "Union" referred to labor unions and not the union of states of the US of A.   The only BLSS Certified Hypocrite on BA "It is better to be an optimist and be proven a fool than to be a pessimist and be proven right." Note: My avatar is the national colors of the 78th Ohio Veteran Volunteer Infantry, which are now preserved in a climate controlled vault at the Ohio History Connection. 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