VolunteerHillbilly
Spike Drinks, Not Trees
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My favorite war to discus is the Civil War. Been to a few of the Battlefields: Stones River, Chattanooga, Chickamauga, Forts Henry and Donelson, Franklin, Manassas, Ft. Sumter, Mobile. Have seen reenactments at Jonesboro, Kennesaw Mtn. and the re-enactors from Ohio who bivouac at Stones River when they shoot their cannon. Would love to visit Pittsburg Landing, Vicksburg, Gettysburg and some of the battles between DC and Richmond. Also, would love to visit where Stonewall was shot. Probably our greatest battlefield commander.
Fascinating. I've done some genealogy, mom's side goes back to the 17th century in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes, I feel some were likely acadians who were deported to Louisiana following the French and Indian War.I wish I could actually manage to get my hands on the paper, but once there was an article written about my family's involvement in the American Revolution. The title was something like,"The war as told by a weathered home.". Speaking of the house one of my family members lived in a long time ago, Nathaniel Brock and his wife Sarah Eaton. Occasionally I can find something written on them...or like a minute ago I searched and found about our connection to the same Brock's who started the Brock Candy Company. Brocks Started Candy Company, Served In U.S. Senate
Anyway, apparently he used his home as a sort of Field HQ at some point during the war. Where people gathered and the sick/injured were cared for by his wife. The house from what I hear was full of bullet holes. Someone built a small monument to him and his wife that read,"Nathaniel Brock: Farmer, Preacher, Woodman, Soldier under Colonel Thomas Elliott, 4th Va. Regiment. He lived and learned theology in Davie County 1785-1818. Sarah Eaton Brock, his wife, pioneers of the Yadkin whose remains are interred one mile SW in family graveyard. Coming from Va. 1785."
I've yet to have the chance to see it in person, but I hope to one day. I can't trace my history back much further, but I get the feeling we came from France. Because I found a ship log that said it was carrying French refugees and a guy named Moise Broc. Just Broc. Either people misspelled it or that is the original name. And from what I understand Moise means Moses. And there was another Moses later in the family. And they studied theology and some were preachers. And if we did come from France in 1700, we are Huguenots...or French protestants. Who were being persecuted at the time in France and many fled. I'm not sure, but I wish I could find a sure answer. I hear people often misspelled names of those arriving. Either that or I imagine they changed the name to a more English spelling. In the article above it says the same thing about a Moses Brock coming here in 1700 from France on board an English vessel.
Fascinating. I've done some genealogy, mom's side goes back to the 17th century in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes, I feel some were likely acadians who were deported to Louisiana following the French and Indian War.
I did a DNA test and I'm overwhelmingly British and Irish, with some French as well. However of folks who I've got shared blood with the majority are French, and most are from Louisiana.
It's hard to pinpoint with a time of fluid borders on the frontier and such, but many folks from the Maritimes went to Louisiana after the fall of Louisbourg and Quebec.
Pretty big French Huguenot population in SC low country. Wonder if any pre-Canadian French slipped down there an blended in?Fascinating. I've done some genealogy, mom's side goes back to the 17th century in Maine and the Canadian Maritimes, I feel some were likely acadians who were deported to Louisiana following the French and Indian War.
Pretty big French Huguenot population in SC low country. Wonder if any pre-Canadian French slipped down there an blended in?
Just surviving that mission was a miracle.It is with sadness that I report the death of the last of the Doolittle raiders.
Lt. Col. Dick Cole, USAF, took off on his last mission today (9 April) at the age of 103. Dick was Jimmy Doolittle's co-pilot on that mission.
A legend passes: Dick Cole, last of the Doolittle Raiders, dies at 103
Many years ago. I posted an account of the mission on these very pages.
Respect and Gratitude: the Doolittle Raiders - The Last Gathering
Doolittle is in the center and Dick Cole is to his immediate left
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Thank you Col. Cole, and Godspeed.