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United States of America / Re: Best Place for Revolutionary War Records
« on: Tuesday 16 June 20 06:21 BST (UK)  »
A copy of a letter I found that had been transcribed -- claiming to be Daniel writing to his brother regarding an encounter while serving for Washington. Would love to find more info about this correspondence, as well.

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United States of America / Best Place for Revolutionary War Records
« on: Tuesday 16 June 20 06:20 BST (UK)  »
Hello! So, I am doing some research into my ancestry and our participation in the Revolutionary War. I have traced back to two of my ancestors, my 7th great grandfathers Israel McBee and Captain Daniel Huddleston. The more I dig the more fascinating these two seem to get to read up on and I was curious if anyone had additional resources or databases you'd recommend for tracking records and stories on colonial ancestors. Apparently Israel McBee was one of the only Revolutionary veterans to also live to see the beginning of the Civil War, dying at the age of 110. I found one record that stated Captain Daniel Huddleston served under President Washington and reported to John Adams as well, working as a Captain of a ship in the colonials Navy. I would love to learn more about these stories if I can -- just don't know where to start beyond googling the names. Thank you again!

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Friday 07 September 12 01:39 BST (UK)  »
Yeah, i'm still looking around for any reputable publishers who are interested in publishing Civil War memoirs. I have it all scanned now, also.

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Monday 03 September 12 20:53 BST (UK)  »
Yes, that actually would make a lot of sense. I am currently in the process of scanning it all over to my computer so i don't need to work with the delicate pages each time I look through it. Also, I figured I would share this interesting quote from it, showing his views on the commanding officers of the Confederacy. He seems to be quite an opinionated person, even so many years after the war.

EDIT: ALSO, I have while scanning these, I found another quote, where he actually says that 45 years have passed, so I suppose that would actually put it at 1910.

This was in response to the Siege of Vicksburg, which he was stationed at.

"I have been unable to understand why President Davis and his advisors and the head military of men of the Confederacy did not more than a year before the war ended, see their inevitable failure and find some way to have stopped the slaughter and ruin of 1864 and the first three months of 1865.
      I know the answer, 'their honor was involved.' I cannot resist the reply, that pride and artificial honor ought to have been sacrificed rather than hundreds of thousands of men and homes and families, to which comes the ready answer, they were powerless to stop hostilities while they had armies in the field."

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Monday 03 September 12 01:49 BST (UK)  »
Thanks! I'll check that out tonight!

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Sunday 02 September 12 23:22 BST (UK)  »
Ah, I must have missed that! Yes, so it seems it was a sort of last telling of his story before his death, putting his experiences onto paper.

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Sunday 02 September 12 23:18 BST (UK)  »
Yes, i'm assuming he was referring to the lowering of Old Glory and the raising of the Confederate Flag (not sure the specific name of it) in his town square. Thanks again, i'll also do some searching on the internet for some places too. I'll continue scanning the pages onto my computer as well, so I can upload them when I do find a place for them.

As for that range, it fit right in. i've actually been able to find alot of articles on the internet about him, as he was an influential part of Independence Missouri (and he was also a close ancestor/relative of President Harry Truman).

He lived until 1920 and there are no traces of any hand written version, so I suppose it could be possible that he wrote this 1910-1920ish as he knew his life was coming to an end and wanting to tell his story and preserve it before his death, but this is, of course, all speculation.

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Sunday 02 September 12 18:41 BST (UK)  »
Ah, so it could not have been that one, as it is lowercase. I did however discover a second copy of this; I found a second, identical typed copy of this same journal (except that one was missing the last 3 pages) and it looked to be newer. Not quite sure what that could mean.

EDIT: Also, the paper says "Berkshire Bond USA" on it, so that would be the company that made the paper.

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Sunday 02 September 12 18:32 BST (UK)  »
I thought that seeing the condition of the paper, type of paper, etc. might help someone with determining how old the typed copy may be, so i scanned the first page of the journal here.


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