This Day in Goodlove History, August 15

• This Day in Goodlove History, August 15

• By Jeffery Lee Goodlove

• jefferygoodlove@aol.com

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• Surnames associated with the name Goodlove have been spelled the following different ways; Cutliff, Cutloaf, Cutlofe, Cutloff, Cutlove, Cutlow, Godlib, Godlof, Godlop, Godlove, Goodfriend, Goodlove, Gotleb, Gotlib, Gotlibowicz, Gotlibs, Gotlieb, Gotlob, Gotlobe, Gotloeb, Gotthilf, Gottlieb, Gottliebova, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlow, Gutfrajnd, Gutleben, Gutlove

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• The Chronology of the Goodlove, Godlove, Gottlob, Gottlober, Gottlieb (Germany) etc., and Allied Families of Battaile, (France), Crawford (Scotland), Harrison (England), Jackson (Ireland), LeClere (France), Lefevre (France), McKinnon (Scotland), Plantagenets (England), Smith (England), Stephenson (England?), Vance (Ireland from Normandy), and Winch (England, traditionally Wales), including correspondence with -George Rogers Clarke, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.

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• The Goodlove/Godlove/Gottlieb families and their connection to the Cohenim/Surname project:

• New Address! http://www.familytreedna.com/public/goodlove/default.aspx

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• This project is now a daily blog at:

• http://thisdayingoodlovehistory.blogspot.com/

• Goodlove Family History Project Website:

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/g/o/o/Jeffery-Goodlove/

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• Books written about our unique DNA include:

• “Abraham’s Children, Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People” by Jon Entine.

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• “ DNA & Tradition, The Genetic Link to the Ancient Hebrews” by Rabbi Yaakov Kleiman, 2004.



“Jacob’s Legacy, A Genetic View of Jewish History” by David B. Goldstein, 2008.

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• My thanks to Mr. Levin for his outstanding research and website that I use to help us understand the history of our ancestry. Go to http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/ for more information. “For more information about the Weekly Torah Portion or the History of Jewish Civilization go to the Temple Judah Website http://www.templejudah.org/ and open the Adult Education Tab "This Day...In Jewish History " is part of the study program for the Jewish History Study Group in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.



Birthdays on this date; Eleanor Strayer, David S. Morfey, Isaac Meason, Daniel H. McKinnon, Henry McKee, Reva McCormick, Theresa Kemling, Nettie S. Godlove, Abraham Godlove, Treg Countryman, Chester Brownlie, Thomas Bavington, Barbara Bader, Hannah Anderson



Weddings on this date; Elizabeth Godlove and Aaron McKee, Sharon Williams and Elmer Garee, Savilla Godlove and Isaac Baker

In the News!

Scholars Seeking To Correct 'Mistakes' In The Bible
By MATTI FRIEDMAN 08/12/11 02:28 PM ET

JERUSALEM -- A dull-looking chart projected on the wall of a university office in Jerusalem displayed a revelation that would startle many readers of the Old Testament: the sacred text that people revered in the past was not the same one we study today.

An ancient version of one book has an extra phrase. Another appears to have been revised to retroactively insert a prophecy after the events happened.

Scholars in this out-of-the-way corner of the Hebrew University campus have been quietly at work for 53 years on one of the most ambitious projects attempted in biblical studies – publishing the authoritative edition of the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible, and tracking every single evolution of the text over centuries and millennia.

And it has evolved, despite deeply held beliefs to the contrary.

For many Jews and Christians, religion dictates that the words of the Bible in the original Hebrew are divine, unaltered and unalterable. For Orthodox Jews, the accuracy is considered so inviolable that if a synagogue's Torah scroll is found to have a minute error in a single letter, the entire scroll is unusable.

But the ongoing work of the academic detectives of the Bible Project, as their undertaking is known, shows that this text at the root of Judaism, Christianity and Islam was somewhat fluid for long periods of its history, and that its transmission through the ages was messier and more human than most of us imagine.

The project's scholars have been at work on their critical edition of the Hebrew Bible, a version intended mainly for the use of other scholars, since 1958.

"What we're doing here must be of interest for anyone interested in the Bible," said Michael Segal, the scholar who heads the project.

The sheer volume of information makes the Bible Project's version "the most comprehensive critical edition of the Hebrew Bible in existence at the present time," said David Marcus, a Bible scholar at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, who is not involved with the project.



But Segal and his colleagues toil in relative anonymity. Their undertaking is nearly unknown outside a circle of Bible experts numbering several hundred people at most, and a visitor asking directions to the Bible Project's office on the university campus will find that many members of the university's own staff have never heard of it.

This is an endeavor so meticulous, its pace so disconnected from that of the world outside, that in more than five decades of work the scholars have published a grand total of three of the Hebrew Bible's 24 books. (Christians count the same books differently, for a total of 39.) A fourth is due out during the upcoming academic year.

If the pace is maintained, the final product will be complete a little over 200 years from now. This is both a point of pride and a matter of some mild self-deprecation around the office.

Bible Project scholars have spent years combing through manuscripts such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greek translations on papyrus from Egypt, a printed Bible from 1525 Venice, parchment books in handwritten Hebrew, the Samaritan Torah, and scrolls in Aramaic and Latin. The last member of the original team died last year at age 90.

The scholars note where the text we have now differs from older versions – differences that are evidence of the inevitable textual hiccups, scribal errors and other human fingerprints that became part of the Bible as it was passed on, orally and in writing.

A Microsoft Excel chart projected on one wall on a recent Sunday showed variations in a single phrase from the Book of Malachi, a prophet.

The verse in question, from the text we know today, makes reference to "those who swear falsely." The scholars have found that in quotes from rabbinic writings around the 5th century A.D., the phrase was longer: "those who swear falsely in my name."

In another example, this one from the Book of Deuteronomy, a passage referring to commandments given by God "to you" once read "to us," a significant change in meaning.

Other differences are more striking.

The Book of Jeremiah is now one-seventh longer than the one that appears in some of the 2,000-year-old manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Some verses, including ones containing a prophecy about the seizure and return of Temple implements by Babylonian soldiers, appear to have been added after the events happened.

The year the Bible Project began, 1958, was the year a priceless Hebrew Bible manuscript arrived in Jerusalem after it was smuggled out of Aleppo, Syria, by a Jewish cheese merchant who hid it in his washing machine. This was the 1,100-year-old Aleppo Codex, considered the oldest and most accurate version of the complete biblical text in Hebrew.

The Bible Project's version of the core text – the one to which the others are compared – is based on this manuscript. Other critical editions of the Bible, such as one currently being prepared in Stuttgart, Germany, are based on a slightly newer manuscript held in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Considering that the nature of their work would be considered controversial, if not offensive, by many religious people, it is perhaps surprising that most of the project's scholars are themselves Orthodox Jews.

"A believing Jew claims that the source of the Bible is prophecy," said the project's bearded academic secretary, Rafael Zer. "But as soon as the words are given to human beings – with God's agreement, and at his initiative – the holiness of the biblical text remains, even if mistakes are made when the text is passed on."





I Get Email!

In a message dated 8/13/2011 8:47:59 A.M. Central Daylight Time, JPT@donationnet.net writes:



Prime Minister Netanyahu describes the impact of Ahmadinejad's “mad ideology”


Dear Jeffery,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows full well that Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is serious about his threat to “wipe Israel off the map.” He described the threat posed by Iran this way: “Imagine a world in which Hitler had atomic bombs. That's pretty much the world you will have if the ayatollahs have atomic bombs. People underrate this mad ideology.

“They think this is a normal country with a normal susceptibility to the calculation of cost and benefit—basically a country that operates on the world scene with a modicum of responsibility. That's not the case. Iran is an outlaw state. It fans terrorism and militancy worldwide. It is preparing to launch nuclear warheads into an enormous radius. It's not just targeting Israel. If they only wanted Israel, they would not build long-range rockets that can reach pretty much every European capital and soon will cover the US.”

As Iran comes ever closer to completing its nuclear weapons program, the day when Israel and the rest of the world must deal with the awful reality draws near. Yet instead of doing anything effective about this grave threat, the world is focusing on Israel. In some ways it's not surprising since in his Cairo speech, President Obama identified the Arab-Israeli conflict as second only to Al Qaeda as a threat to peace. But it's ridiculous! The Obama Administration and the UN are fully committed to creating a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.


Your ambassador to Jerusalem,

Dr. Michael Evans

This Day…

August 15, 1096: The armies of the First Crusade set out from Europe to deliver Jerusalem from the occupying forces of Islamic Turks. Championed by Peter the Hermit in 1093, Pope Urban II had sanctioned the crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095.[1]

August 15, 1309

1309: Knights of St. John, complete their conquest of Rhodes. Apparently the Knights treatment of the Jewish population was comparatively benign since many Sicilian conversos would move to the island because “they remembered the Knights’’ liberal policy towards the Jews or Rhodes.”[2]

August 15, 1461: Trapezunt surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmet II marking the real end of the Byzantine Empire. The experience of the Jews of Anatolia had been uneven in the days of the Byzantine (Christian) Empire. The Jews of Constantinople remained in place after the Islamic forces came to power under Mehmet II.[3]

August 15, 1534: Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates took initial vows that would lead to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September of 1540. In its early days, the Jesuits accepted Jewish converts and their descendants who were known as New Christians were admitted to the order. After the death of Loyola, the Jesuits adopted the Spanish attitudes and refused to accept New Christians or their descendants as members.[4]



August 15, 1762: COURT ORDER

April 5-6, 1762

WILLIAM CRAWFORD TO THOMAS CLEYLAND



George Ill by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King defender of the faith &c to Matthew Harrison and James Wood of the County of Frederick, Gentlemen Greeting:

Whereas William Crawford and Hannah by their deeds of Lease and Release bearing dates of the fifth and sixth days of April One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Two Have sold and conveyed unto Thomas Cleyland the fee simple Estate of in and to a certain tract of land situate and lying and being in the said county of Frederick containing two hundred and forty acres and whereas the said Hannah cannot conveniently travel to the court of our said county to make ack­nowledgement of the same therefore we command you, that you do personally go to the said Hannah and receive her acknowledgment. Thereof privately and apart from the said William her husband whether she doth the same freely and voluntarily without his persuasions or threats and whether she is willing the same shall be recorded in our county Court of Frederick together with this commission annexed and when have received her acknowledgement as aforesaid that you distinctly and plainly certify us thereof in our said Court sending is writ and the said indentures.

Witness James Keith, Clerk of our said Court at the Court House of county, the 15th day of (August 15) August in the fourth year of our reign.

Jas. Keith.

By virtue of the within Commission to us directed we did personally go to the within named Hannah Crawford, wife of William Crawford who being examined privately and apart from the said William Crawford her husband did freely and voluntarily relinquish her right of dower to lands mentioned in the within (sic) to the within Thomas Cleyland and desired the said Deed with her acknowlegement to be recorded. Given under our hands and seals this fifth day of September (September 5) 1764.[5]



August 15, 1769: Birthdate of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon had profound effect on the Jews of Europe. But if one asks “Was Napoleon good for the Jews” the best answer might be, “It depends.”[6]

Tuesday. August 15th. 1775. Delivered the horse to Mr. Mattison. Applied to four people in town to get cash for my Bills on Mr. Kirk. But my appearance prevents my success. Offered to sell my silverware to them, but the Rascals knowing my distress will not give me more than half its value. Exceedingly uneasy.[7]



August 15, 1776: The first division of Hessians, some eight thousand strong, passed Sandy Hook on August 15, 1776, and landed at Staten Island amid salvoes of artillery and musketry. The division was under the command of Lieutenant-general Philip von Heister, a tough old soldier of the Seven Years’ War. It is related that when Landgrave Frederick II called him to command the Hessian expedititonary force, he did so in these terms: Heister, you must go along to America.””Very well, your Most Serene Highness, but I take the liberty of making a few requests.” “And what may they be?” “First, my debts must be paid, my wife and children must be taken care of until I come back, and if I should fall, my wife must have a pension.” When the Landgrave had smilingly assented, Heister cried out: “Now your Serene Highness shall see what this old head and these bones can do.”

The army collected on Staten Island under the command of Sir William Howe numbered, after the arrival of the Hessians, between twenty-five and thirty thousand soldiers. It was supported by a fleet under Sir William’s brother, Lord Howe. The opposing army of Washington was composed of some thirteen or fourteen thousand men, not more than six thousand of whom had any military experience, and whose officers were taken from civil life.

The Hessians were much struck with the appearance of wealth and plenty which they found on Staten Island. The colonists lived in comfortable houses surrounded by gardens and orchards. Their light red wagons drawn by two small horses excited the wonder of the Germans. A colonist on Staten Island lived as comfortably as a German country gentleman, and it seemed extraordinary to the Hessians that people should revolt against a government under which they enjoyed so many blessings. Many of the Amercans had fled from their homes on the approach of the Hessians, and those who remained were at first inclined to be surly when troops were quartered upon them; but when they saw that strict discipline was enforced, and that only regular requisitions were made, the fugitives returned, and relations of tolerance, if not of cordiality were soon extablished. The British government still hoped to reconcile the colonists to the rule of the mother country and strict orders had been given to prevent all excesses.[8]

August 15, 1777: August 15 — when the fleet came to anchor at Cape Henry.[9]

August 15, 1777: The first court of the Yohogania county was held at Fort Dunmore (Pitt) December 23, 1776,[10] and that the courts continued to be held there until August 15, 1777. They were then held at the house of Andrew Heath.” This was on the west side of the Monongahela, a short distance above, and in sight of the present town of Elizabeth. The statement has frequently been made that the Yohogania court was at one time held at Redstone Old Fort, but this is a mistake, doubtless growing our of the fact that a board of Viginia commissioners sat at that place in the winter of 1779-80 for the purpose of deciding on land claims and issuing certificates to settlers.

Finally, when the long controverst between the two States was settled by the assignment of the disputed territory to Pennsylvania, the counties of Monongalia and Ohio, though greatly reduced in area, still retained teir names as counties of Virginia (as they are of West Virginia at the present time); but Yohogania, whose limits were wholly within the territory yielded to Pennsylvania, cesed to exist, and was thenceforward mentioned as Viginia’s “lost county.” [11]

August 15, 1803: (date approximate) Reverend Robert Armstrong, a traveler, suggests the name "Xenia" (Greek for "hospitality") as the name for the county seat of Greene County OH. Out of consideration for Owen Davis, one of the earliest settlers in the county and the first miller in the area, his wife Laticia cast the deciding vote. .[12]



On the morning of August 15, 1812, the garrison at Fort Dearborn, the site of Chicago, was ready to leave. Orders had been received from General William Hull[13] to make a forced march to Detroit. Scouts had reported drums thumping in the villages and some tribes were painted for war.

Shortly after sunup Captain Nathan Heald, the post commander, led his men out of the tiny stockade. The ragged column of fifty regulars, flanking the women and children of the few families who had settled near the stockade, started out across the prairie.

From his hiding place, Metea gave the signal. His painted, howling warriers , outnumbering the troops, fell on the train and butchered most of the regulars and the settlers.[14]



August 15, 1812

Susans Simmons Winans[15] was born February 18, 1812. When she was six months old, and with her parents at Ft. Dearborn[16] at the massacre there; August 15, 1812. Her father was killed, and her mother and she were taken prisoners by the Indians, and held six months or more; a little brother 3 years old was also killed. In the following Spring, mother, with Susan made her way to friends in Miami Co., Ohio. Susan was the mother of Ester Winans, William Harrison Goodlove’s first wife.



The massacre followed the evacuation of the fort as ordered by the U.S. General William Hull. This event is also sometimes known as the Battle of Fort Dearborn. Fort Dearborn’s commander Captain Nathan Heald ordered all whiskey and gunpowder to be destroyed so it would no be seized by the local Indian tribes allied with the British, although he had agree to these terms a few hours earlier. He then prepared to abandon his post. Heald remained at Fort Dearborn until support arrived from Fort Wayne, Indiana, led by his wife’s uncle, Captain Wells. A column of 148 soldiers, women children then left Fort Dearborn intending to march to Fort Wayne. However, about one and a half miles (2 km) south of Fort Dearborn, at about what is now 18th Street and Prairie Avenue, a band of Potawatomi warriors ambushed the garrison, killing more than fifty and capturing the remainder as prisoners to sell to the British as slaves. The British purchased the captives and released them immediately afterwards.

Fort Dearborn was burned to the ground, and the region remained empty of U.S. citizens until after the war had ended.

Survivors' accounts differed on the role of the Miami warriors. Some said they fought for the Americans, while others said they did not fight at all. Regardless, William Henry Harrison claimed the Miami fought against the Americans, and used the Fort Dearborn massacre as a pretext to attack the Miami villages. Miami chief Pacanne and his nephew, Jean Baptiste Richardville, accordingly ended their neutrality in the War of 1812 and allied with the British. [17]



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Jillian Goodlove stands near the sculpture on the Michigan Avenue bridge commemorating the Ft. Dearborn massacre. Photo by Jeff Goodlove.









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Jillian Goodlove stands inside of Fort Dearborn. The lines indicate the outline of the exterior of former Fort Dearborn. Photo by Jeff Goodlove. June 15, 2009





Outline of Fort Dearborn. Photo by Jeff Goodlove June 16, 2009.





Corner of Wabash and Michigan, where Fort Dearborn used to stand.



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August 15, 1865: Carl, H. L., enlisted August 15, 1862, mustered out July 17, 1865.

Slater, Jacob, enlisted August 15, 1862, discharged March 7, 1863, sick.


Godlove, Samuel. Age 18. Residence Yatton, nativity Ohio. Enlisted August 15, 1862. Mustered

September 4, 1862. Wounded severely September 19, 1864, Winchester, Va. Died October 14, 1864,

Winchester, Va. Buried in National Cemetery, Winchester, Va. Lot 76.[23]



Mon. August 15, 1864

In camp feel some better washed clothes[24]





August 15, 1944

The United States Seventh Army invades southern France[25]



August 15, 2010

I am receiving emails from other DNA matches and I find myself reading them over and over and looking into my research and back again, not really piecing it together but at the same time wondering, “Is it really possible, that we are coming so close to putting it all together and yet, there are so many pieces missing.” Jeffery Lee Goodlove





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[1] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[2] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[3] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[4] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com

[5] The Brothers Crawford, Allen W. Scholl, 1995

[6] http://thisdayinjewishhistory.blogspot.com/

[7] (Cresswell) From River Clyde to Tymochtee and Col. William Crawford by Grace U. Emahiser, 1969 pg. 141.

[8] The Hessians and the Other Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War by Edward J. Lowell pgs. 58-59.

[9] Journal kept by the Distinguished Hessian Field Jaeger Corps during the Campaigns of the Royal Army of Great Britain in North America, Translated by Bruce E. Burgoyne 1986

[10] The following named “gentlemen justices” were sworn in by the court on their commissions: Joseph Beelor, Joseph Becket, John Campbell, John Canon, Isaac Cox, William Crawford, Zachariah Connell, John Decamp, Thomas Freeman, Benjamin Frye, John Givson, William Goe, William Harrison, Benjamin Kirkendall, John McDowell, John McDonald, George McCormick, Oliver Miller, Samuel Newell, Dorsey Pentecost, Maththew Ritchie, James Rogers, Thomas Smallman, Andrew Swearingen, John Stevenson, George Vallandigham, Edward Ward, Joshua Wright, and Richard Yeates. The following named held commissions but were not sworn in: Thomas Brown, James Blackiston, John Carmichael, Benjamin Harrison, Jacob Haymaker, Isaac Leet, Sr., James McLean, Isaac Meason, John Neville, Phillip Rose, and Joseph Vance.

And the following named persons were also sworn in as civil and military officers of the county: Clerk, Dorsey Pentecost; deputy, Ralph Bowker.

Sheriffs, William Harrison (deputy, Ralph Bowker.

Sheriffs, William Harrison (deputy, Isaac Leet, George McCormick (Is George a brother of William, who married Ophelia?JG) (deputies, Hugh Sterling, Joseph Beelor, Benjamin Vanmeter, and John Lemon), Matthew Ritchie (deputy, John Sutherland).

County Lieutenant, Dorsey Pentecost.

Colonels, John Canon, Isaac Cox, John Stephenson.

Lieutenant Colonels, Isaac Cox, Joseph Beelor, George Vallaudigham.

Majors, Gabriel Cox, Henry Taylor, William Harrison.

Attorney, George Brent, William Harrison, Samuel Irvin, Philip Pendleton.

Legislators, John Campbell, William Harrison, Matthew Ritchie.

[11] History of Fayette County, Pennsylvania by Franklin Ellis, 1882

[12] 55 Broadstone, M. A., History Of Greene County, Ohio, ©1918 The chronology of Xenia and Greene County Ohio.http://fussichen.com/oftheday/otdx.htm

[13] Gen. William Hull, Detroit governor, first Master of Meridian Lodge, Natick, Mass. The Northern Light, Vol 9 No. 3 June 1978: U.S. Army’s Only link with Troops of the Revolution, by J. Fairbairn Smith page 8.



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[15] Mother of Esther Winans, William Harrison Goodlove’s first wife.

[16] The Fort Dearborn massacre occurred on August15, 1812, near Fort Dearborn, Illinois Territory (in what is now Chicago Illinois) during the War of 1812.

[17] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dearborn_Massacre)



[18] A sculpture on Michigan Ave. Bridge commemorates the Fort Dearborn Massacre

[19][19] The inscription under the Dearborn bridge. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dearborn_Massacre

[20] Inscription at the Dearborn Bridge, Wabash and Michigan Avenue, Chicago. Photo Jeff Goodlove

[21] A historic marker located on the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Photo by Jeff Goodlove.

[22] In 1893, George Pullman had a sculpture he had commissioned from Carl Rohl-Smith erected near his house. It portrayed the rescue of Margaret Helm, the stepdaughter of Chicago resident John Kinzie[3] and wife of Lt. Linai Thomas Helm, [4] by Potawatomi chief Black Partridge, who led her and some others to Lake Michigan and helped her escape by boat. [5] The monument was moved to the lobby of the Chicago Historical Society in 1931. In the 1970s, however, American Indian groups protested the display of the monument, and it was removed. In the 1990s, the statue was reinstalled near 18th Street and Prairie Avenue, close to its original site. It was later removed for conservation reasons by the Office of Public Art of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.[6] There are some efforts to reinstall the monument, but it is meeting resistance from the Chicago American Indian Center.[5]

[23] http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil508.htm

[24] On August 15, while William Harrison Goodlove was still ill the troops at Cedar Creek begtan falling back to Charlestown at which place they arrived on August 18. (A History of the 24th Iowa Infantry 1862-1865 by Harvey H. Kimble Jr. August 1974. page 165)



[25] On This Day in America by John Wagman.