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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Sunday 02 September 12 18:26 BST (UK)  »
That may also be true. I'm attempting to date it based off what he does talk about in it, because it is all in the past tense. Near the end he says "longer than three years of the third decade ending in 1868 did it take to restore to the white men the ballot and lift from their necks the yoke of their former slaves". So, I know he wrote this sometime after 1868. It may be possible that he either handwrote it and it was typed later, but after reconstruction ended I know he started his own newspaper in Independence Missouri, so he may have been able to get his hands on a typewriter through that, in which case this would have been written sometime after the war.

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Sunday 02 September 12 01:11 BST (UK)  »
Hi, thanks for the reply!

Yes, it's the United States Civil War. I believe it is the original; it isn't a journal per say, it's more of a retelling because I believe he wrote the whole thing after the war. I don't think it was published, he was wealthy at the time and typed it himself after the war (he often mentions that reconstruction is going on at the time he is writing it). I would love to find some sort of publisher that would be interested in looking at it because it covers everything from the south separating from the union and all of his opinions on what was going on at the time and goes all the way through the fall of Vicksburg, his injury, and reconstruction. It's really fascinating, so if you have any ideas of where to look for publishing or any civil war societies that would be interested please let me know! I would love to show some people what I have!

Thanks again!

~Andy

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FH Documents and Artefacts / Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Saturday 01 September 12 19:30 BST (UK)  »
Hello, my name is Andy Southern.

I recently helped clean out my grandfather's house and took a few boxes of old family items back home with me. In it, I discovered a 27 page (typed on a type writer) retelling of my 4th great grandfather's experiences as a soldier in the Civil war, fighting for the Confederacy, as well as when he was wounded at Vicksburg. It is truly fascinating and well written, as he was a well off attorney. I am wondering if anyone here can offer me advice on where I can go with it. I am scanning the whole of it onto my computer and would love to find a place online where I can upload it, make it readable to others, and hear other's opinions on it and maybe learn more about him. If anyone has any advice on what I can do to help preserve his story I would greatly appreciate it.

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World War One / Re: Need help identifying WW1 Uniform
« on: Saturday 23 June 12 19:06 BST (UK)  »
Hello, I have scanned the backs of each photograph, hopefully to get more information of where these were taken and around what time. They are in the same order as the first two images.




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World War One / Re: Need help identifying WW1 Uniform
« on: Thursday 21 June 12 20:17 BST (UK)  »
Hi, thanks for the responses. Once I am home i'll scan the backs of each photograph to see if there is any more information that could be of use. I am curious to find out more about his rank and see if we can figure out his regiment. Thanks for all the help thus far guys. :D

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Need Help deciphering 1800's era letters
« on: Wednesday 20 June 12 22:07 BST (UK)  »
okay, sorry about that. I removed those last two and will put up a different one for them. I tried to attach the photos before but they were to big, so I figured this was the only way to put them up.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Need Help deciphering 1800's era letters
« on: Wednesday 20 June 12 20:48 BST (UK)  »
Okay, these were most likely written in Jackson County Missouri, which would make sense with the first letter. Many of the people from my family, based on my understanding, lived and were influential figures in Independence and Jackson county Missouri, so i'm guessing those first few documents are from there. Still trying to figure out who they were from/sent to.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Need Help deciphering 1800's era letters
« on: Wednesday 20 June 12 20:17 BST (UK)  »
Hello, I have found many very old letters at the bottom of a box my grandfather gave me. I would love some help deciphering what these say. Most are in English but two are in German, if anyone can help deciphering German.

The following links are direct links to the images, if someone could tell me how to embed the links that would be awesome!









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World War One / Need help identifying WW1 Uniform
« on: Wednesday 20 June 12 19:23 BST (UK)  »
Hello, my name is Andrew Southern. Recently I was helping my grandma clean out some of her stuff and found an old envelope. Inside were a few documents and pictures. She didn't know anything about them, all I can say is that she is German. Among the photos were two photos of a man in some sort of German military uniform (looks like WW1 to me). The back says his name is Rudolph Drews. One was taken by a place called "Fritz Hartwig" and the other by "C. Utecht, Berlin". I would love it if I could get help identifying the military rank of him, and anything else we can find out. I also have some naturalization records, and birth records from Germany if you would like to see those. Thanks and please let me know.

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