Nancy Hendrickson's Ancestor News
AncestorNews readers Ann Blackwell and Joan Thomas Holloway sent along a note in reference to the last newsletter. Both Ann and Joan had ancestors who were in Civil War prisons. Ann’s ancestor, Col. Pleasent Fowler, of Arkansas, was in a New Jersey prison; Joan’s was kept at Fort Delaware. Approximately 2700 Confederate soldiers died while being [...]
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Lucinda Cave, the wife of my four-times removed cousin, was shot during the Civil War Battle of Lone Jack. She is buried in the Lone Jack, Missouri cemetery. (click image to enlarge) Lucinda Cave is mentioned in the blog post I wrote about using popular magazine in genealogy research. In a strange way of completing [...]
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An old issue of the Civil War magazine, North & South, featured a cover story about the 1862 battle of Lone Jack, Missouri—the little town my ancestors moved to in the 1830s. In addition to providing details of the battle itself, the article included photos, eyewitness testimony, and a nifty graphic showing the layout of [...]
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“Have you ever looked at a Civil War pension file and wondered, what does this all REALLY mean? More specifically, have you ever tried to figure out what each document or slip of paper actually was, where it came from, and what relevance it had to the file as a whole? Believe it or not, [...]
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On 27 September, 2004, a special ceremony was held at Ford’s Theatre National Historic Site, commemorating the completion of the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Database (CWSS). This online, searchable database contains 6.3 million names of Civil War veterans, both Union and Confederate. In case you’ve never used this database, it’s a dandy. You can [...]
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