Hi ya'll look what I got today - I think gf George is helping me out here.
>Date: Sat, 05 Oct 1996 12:31:17 -0500
>From: Howard G Walker <[email protected]>
>Organization: Walker Enterprises, LTD
>To: josephine bass <[email protected]>
>Subject: Re: BATTLE OF STONES RIVER
>References: <[email protected]>
>
>A lot of the Northern boys took southern wives - some permanent some
>temporary. Many, speaking of Eastern Tennessee and Northeast Alabama, said,
>"When the War's over, I'm coming back here to live." The 81st Indiana spent a
>lot of time in and around Huntsville - in fact they wintered-over there after
>the Battle of Franklin in December 1864. Its members, on the whole, were from
>Floyd, Harrison, Crawford, Perry, Clark and Waskington counties, Indiana.
>Company "F" men were mostly from Harrison county.
>
>They arrived at Perryville too late. Of course, they fought at Stones River.
>They were in the move on Chattanooga, crossing the Tennessee near Stevenson,
>marched across Sand Mountain and Lookout Mountain to Chicamauga, and fought at
>Viniard's Farm. They were on the extreme right and held their position
until Gen
>Wood withdrew his Divison making the hole through which Longstreet made his
>penetration. After the retreat to Chattannooga - the prize of the fight,
anyway
>- the 81st was placed on railroad and bridge guard duty. They missed out on
>the fight at Missionary Ridge. They stayed in the vicinity of WHITESIDE until
>about May of '64 when they joined Sherman's Army as part of the Left Wing
on the
>march to Atlanta. They were in the fight from Buzzard's Roost to Loveloy's
>Station.
>
>George W Swartz, that was his full name, Company F, 81 IIV, was discharged 20
>June 1864. Why I don't know. Most, if not all the POWs at Perryville were
>exchanged. Maybe in time my project will reveal the cause.
>
>I am maintaining a roster of members of the 81st IIV and will enter your data.
>
>There is more information available than you would expect on the 81st. I have
>TWO 4" binders full of print-outs, a a 3 1/2" disk full of text, and various
>other folders and files of Xerox.
>
>Sorry that I'm unable to give you more than a "thumb nail" at this time. I
>anticipate on submitting to the CIVIL-WAR Newsgroup copies of all my extracts
>from the New Albany Ledger. The first submission was a whim that paid off for
>you. I had it on my "Note Pad" having sent it to an interested party in Terre
>Haute, Indiana. So I thought, "Since it'll only take a minute, I might as well
>submit it to the Newsgroup." The newsgroup couldn't have more than a half
dozen
>subscribers as the monitor was confused as to how to spell CIVIL - he was
>spelling it civIl one place,and civAl another.
>
>
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