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is the flag my great-great grandfather fought under. Co. D, 4th Alabama, Corporal Samuel Bondurant. He was 22 when he was shot through the "upper third of his right leg" at Little Round Top, July 2, 1863. He kept the leg, but lost his farm.
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Wow! A Gettysburg veteran. [&o] My great-great-don't know how many-grandfather, Corp. Elbert Harrison fought with Co. K, 13th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) during Red River Campaign with the Trans-Mississippi forces in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

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grandfather, Corp. Elbert Harrison fought with Co. K, 13th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) during Red River Campaign with the Trans-Mississippi forces in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

Well he fought in my backyard then........I'm in Shreveport just up the road from Mansfield & Pleasant Hill. I only know of my Great-Great Grandfather who was in the 11th Ark, was captured at Island #10 (part of the Henry & Donelson Campaign) & escaped in Aug 1862, rejoined his outfit and finished out the War. I have a copy of a handwritten diary he kept but the parts after Island #10 are missing so we are not sure what he went through during the War after Aug 1862.
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ORIGINAL: AU Tiger

is the flag my great-great grandfather fought under. Co. D, 4th Alabama, Corporal Samuel Bondurant. He was 22 when he was shot through the "upper third of his right leg" at Little Round Top, July 2, 1863. He kept the leg, but lost his farm.

Very interesting, and a somewhat familiar story.

My mother's grandfather, William Castle, was a private in the 3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. He was shot in the leg during a battle at Falls Church, Virginia, shattering his right femur. He was captured by confederates. No medical attention was available and he was simply loaded on a railroad flatcar for transport to a prison camp. On the train, other prisoners tended to his leg as best they could. The train was re-captured by union troops sometime later and he went into hospital.

The damage to his leg, combined with the delay for treatment, resulted in one leg an inch shorter, a permanent limp, and pain with every step. He returned home but was physically unable to work the family farm. No other male survived the war and the farm had to be sold.

He too kept the leg but lost the farm.


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I have another one on the other side of my family. William Cline, Co. H, 17th Ga. who actually survived the whole war in the Army of Northern Va. He was there from the Peninsular campaign all the way to Appomattox. Interestingly, he fought at the Devil's Den at Gettysburg, just a couple of hundred yards from my other ancestor. He was promoted to company 1st sgt. that day, and retained that rank to the end of the war. I have a photo of him copied by my uncle from a photo hanging in Harris county courthouse. It is a group of old greybeard vets, about 30 of them, taken probably on the 50th anniversary of Gettysburg. That is one group of ferocious looking old men. My grandmother remembers him from when she was a little girl. She tells me she was fascinated and repelled by him by the way he would drink his buttermilk. He was mostly toothless by then, and his tongue looked like a little snake licking the buttermilk off his beard and mustache, according to her.
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Capt. Skillet will like my GGGF.. Antonio Sanchez served in the Donaldsonville Artillery throughout the war, starting as an enlisted man and ending up an Lt. At the beginning of the war the unit was French officers, Irish non-coms and Spanish enlisted men. They joined the Army of Northern Virginia in time for the second battle of Manassas and were the first southern artillery unit to arrive on the field at Gettysburg (I learned that with Terrible Swift Sword!).

My great grandfather arrived in New Orleans in 1865 as a teacher of the deaf(!) (being a recent graduate from the University of Edinburgh in that specialty). Hmmm... I wonder how it was that he met his future wife Maria Sanchez? [;)]
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I forgot to add that Corp. Harrison survived the war, went back to TX, got married, became a merchant, had a small town (Elbert, TX) that's no longer there, named for him and ran the post office. There's a book called the SPARTAN BAND about the 13th Texas from formation until surrender. It has casualty list's and names of all members. I enjoyed it.

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Lots of Spanish influence down that way Brad seeing as Spain was in control for awhile [;)].. lots o towns with names such as Gonzales and Sorrento not far from the town of Donaldsonville itself.
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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

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My great grandfather arrived in New Orleans in 1865 as a teacher of the death (being a recent graduate from the University of Edinburgh in that specialty).

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Do you mean deaf instead of death?? [&:]
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Thanks... I can't believe that I allowed that typo to make its way onto my post.
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AU Tiger, The flag by my name is my great grandfathers regemental flag, 8th Michigan Infantry. He was a drummer boy, I have his drum and fife at home. He joined in March of 64 and went through the Wilderness to Appomattox. I have very little information about his actually comings or goings. He was very active in the Grand Army of the Republic after the war, ended up head of the drum and bugle corp. Family history is great!
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Family history is great! Even when you find ancestors who fought on the 'wrong' side...;-)

Active in the GAR, eh? They did a LOT of good things for the vets, and were a serious political power.

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Yeah, history is great. I had relatives on both sides during WWII. US Army (Father - ETO), US Navy (Uncle - PTO), US Coast Guard - absorbed into the Navy (Uncle - PTO), Italian Alpine Corps (Cousin). [:D]
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