She remembered "The Blue Coats" during the Civil War

[island14]

I thought Grey Ghost, and Skia, and some more of you guys might find this interesting.

Obituary of my great grandma from 1960, mentions that she often saw the blue coats marching by her home during the Civil War.



http://freeshopmanual.com/uploads/photos/Grandma-Day-Nov7-1960.JPG

http://freeshopmanual.com/uploads/photos/Grandma-Day-1.JPG

[78SA]

At least they didn't stop. :leaving:

[boracayjohnny]

Neat story Tim. So Skia, did you ever go calling on Ms. Day when she was a teenager? :D

[island14]

Neat story Tim. So Skia, did you ever go calling on Ms. Day when she was a teenager? :D




Great Grandpa Skia?? :bilmem:


:supprise:

[island14]

At least they didn't stop. :leaving:



Get off of my lawn? :toetap:


:lol:

[Skia]

Neat story Tim. So Skia, did you ever go calling on Ms. Day when she was a teenager? :D wrong state....

[boracayjohnny]

wrong state....

:D:D

[78SA]

Get off of my lawn? :toetap:


:lol:

:lol:

[Grey Ghost]

Thanks for posting it up. We forget about how traumatic it would have been on civilians too close to the action. Some would just up and leave when they heard the Army was nearby. Some formed Home Guard units to protect against Army foragers.

:seasix:

[OddBall]

Neat story Tim. So Skia, did you ever go calling on Ms. Day when she was a teenager? :D

:rofl:

[OddBall]

She witnessed an amazing transitions in history. From the the Civil, through the World Wars to the the dawn of the space age.

[Dan Dlabay]

Neat story. Thanks for sharing. Tim do you think you will live as long as your great grandmother?:cert:

[mrvette]

I forget the exact location, but it was a famous battle ground of the CW and so on a farm his father owned, was this stone wall, and so a friend was a CW bug and leafing through some old war photos, he finds this one of these men in front of a wall, it was the SAME wall as on his father's place, as in he showed me a pix of HIM and wife/kids standing on the exact same stone wall formations....it was not a siege wall, just a typical farm wall to keep animals from the house...landscaping, whatever....but the surrounding trees and the house was totally different, krazy was that he picked out them stones as being from his father's joint.....some 35+ years ago.....

total crap shoot and I had to look close to see it but Joe was right, it was the same damn wall....nothing changed in over 100 years...talk about weird....

:dance::confused5::kimblair::leaving:

[island14]

Thanks for posting it up. We forget about how traumatic it would have been on civilians too close to the action. Some would just up and leave when they heard the Army was nearby. Some formed Home Guard units to protect against Army foragers.

:seasix:



I guess we are lucky we did not have to grow up with a war in our backyard.

[island14]

She witnessed an amazing transitions in history. From the the Civil, through the World Wars to the the dawn of the space age.

I wonder about living in some of those times..

[island14]

Neat story. Thanks for sharing. Tim do you think you will live as long as your great grandmother?:cert:



Wouldn't that be neat? :seasix:

I seriously doubt it though.




101 and get shot by a jealous husband...


:lol:

[onedef92]

That's what you call a good, old age right there.

[island14]

That's what you call a good, old age right there.



I think it would be great if we could all live that long :seasix:


I still have lots of shit to do man! :lol:

[onedef92]

I think it would be great if we could all live that long :seasix:


I still have lots of shit to do man! :lol:

Yeah, we gotta' get busy on those cormorants and shit. :rofl:

[island14]

I'm in OHighO right now, when is the cookout? :lol:

[onedef92]

I'm in OHighO right now, when is the cookout? :lol:

Hard to say. I think all the Kentucky cormorants (seasonal water birds) have flown further South for the winter. Haven't seen any here since this summer.

[island14]

Hard to say. I think all the Kentucky cormorants (seasonal water birds) have flown further South for the winter. Haven't seen any here since this summer.



Maybe we can scrounge up a couple of pigeons at the park? :lol:

[onedef92]

Maybe we can scrounge up a couple of ducks at the park? :lol:


http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af26/Christineip/Winter%202011/141211011.jpg

Or a shitload of Eastern Crows. Them mofo's is always around.

[island14]

http://i990.photobucket.com/albums/af26/Christineip/Winter%202011/141211011.jpg

Or a shitload of Eastern Crows. Them mofo's is always around.

:seasix:

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/1d/79/66/great-taste-awards-2011.jpg

[onedef92]

Maybe we can scrounge up a couple of pigeons at the park? :lol:

If you've visited a B-list Chinese restaurant in Ohio, you've probably already eaten pigeon.

There was one in New Albany, IN not too far from where I work now that got busted more than 10 years ago for shooting street pigeons with an air rifle and serving them on the buffet line for chicken! :slap:

[island14]

If you've visited a B-list Chinese restaurant in Ohio, you've probably already eaten pigeon.

There was one in New Albany, IN not too far from where I work now that got busted more than 10 years ago for shooting street pigeons with an air rifle and serving them on the buffet line for chicken! :slap:

My buddy Cocoy in the Philippines, shoots birds about the size of a sparrow with a BB gun and cooks them.

My Father in Law gets them with a slingshot :yesnod:

And they DO taste just like Chicken!

Too much work for a bite size snack if you ask me.

http://freeshopmanual.com/uploads/photos/Cocoy-Hunter.jpg

[onedef92]

My buddy Cocoy in the Philippines, shoots birds about the size of a sparrow with a BB gun and cooks them.

My Father in Law gets them with a slingshot :yesnod:

And they DO taste just like Chicken!

Too much work for a bite size snack if you ask me.

http://freeshopmanual.com/uploads/photos/Cocoy-Hunter.jpg

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j304/awhitecat/birds/mourning-dovewtmk.jpg

My Grandfather used to hunt Mourning Doves with a .410 shotgun and bird pellets. Kinda like eatin crab legs or lobster...a lot of work for not a whole lot of meat. They make a tasty sandwich roasted on wheat slathered with Gulden's Deli Mustard, though. :D

[island14]

With all the Civil war stuff here lately I thought I'd give this a bump.. :datawiz:

[markids77]

Cormorants are nasty. My father and I shot a couple several years ago and the dog refused to retrieve them. They stink to high heaven, and I am ashamed to say we threw them away after cleaning them.

[DukeAllen]

With all the Civil war stuff here lately I thought I'd give this a bump.. :datawiz:

:cool: story bro. I missed it the first time around. :seasix:

[mrvette]

An old friend's father had a habit of buying up small farms in the western Md. W. Va. regions, long time ago we noticed a bunch of CW uniforms still hanging in an old abandoned barn.......went back to get them, and they were gone....figgers......

:leaving:

[78SA]

And you were mentioned in the article. :lol:

[Grey Ghost]

Some uniforms have survived and still show up on the market. Yep, crazy expensive, too. Confed. jacket - $75k plus, hat - $10k, etc...

Just like with old cars though. I've noticed prices haven't really increased in the last 10 yrs. they remain stable. I think the old collectors are dying off and the younger gen. just not interested in collecting or any interest in the war itself.

I did have a neighbor many yrs. ago that gave me his grandfathers Span. Am. war uniform! A short 30yrs. prior and I would have had a CW uniform!!!

[island14]

And you were mentioned in the article. :lol:


I wouldn't even know where to begin to start adding up how many kids her great grandchildren... and on had..

There were plenty just through my own Grandmother, they had 9 together including my Mom, and did not know anyone from my Grandfathers side.

It was my Grandfathers Mom.

[Fastguy]

I forget the exact location, but it was a famous battle ground of the CW and so on a farm his father owned, was this stone wall, and so a friend was a CW bug and leafing through some old war photos, he finds this one of these men in front of a wall, it was the SAME wall as on his father's place, as in he showed me a pix of HIM and wife/kids standing on the exact same stone wall formations....it was not a siege wall, just a typical farm wall to keep animals from the house...landscaping, whatever....but the surrounding trees and the house was totally different, krazy was that he picked out them stones as being from his father's joint.....some 35+ years ago.....

total crap shoot and I had to look close to see it but Joe was right, it was the same damn wall....nothing changed in over 100 years...talk about weird....

:dance::confused5::kimblair::leaving:

The stone walls are protected in many areas. They are everywhere in MA as the farmers cleared fields and built walls. They are used as legal property markers by drilling holes or pins in the unmovable stones. I have one on each end of my property and they are used in the wording of the deed as reference points.

[island14]

I remember looking for corner stones marking my irregular shaped 120 acre lot years ago and it was quite a task at times if you get just a little off direction, as sometimes they are hard to see, or behind a tree..

I think that's where the term stonefounded came from.. :island14:

[Fastguy]

Mine are drill holes on the back wall in a huge boulder, and then lead pins in a boulder on the front wall.

[mrvette]

The stone walls are protected in many areas. They are everywhere in MA as the farmers cleared fields and built walls. They are used as legal property markers by drilling holes or pins in the unmovable stones. I have one on each end of my property and they are used in the wording of the deed as reference points.

INteresting had no clue about that, what I DO remember though was upon selling the Folks place built in '62 out on 2 acres, it had a typical Md. Horse fence surrounding the place but after 30 years we tore it down, except for the back stretch, streets/grades down to drainage ditches on two sides, trees lined the fence, and on the other side it was a spare lot that would not perk for well septic, never did, and with increased standards, will NEVER perk so the lot was just overgrown with weeds and cedar trees....tore the rotten fence down there too.....

SO when settlement came, the lot line reference in the deed read 'along the white horse fence, had to show the new owners the ends of the back stretch and along the tree lines up the vacant lot, and to join parts of a fence that WAS built to enclose the other lot, but that came to a short stop when the lot failed Perk test......:rofl:

[Fastguy]

SO when settlement came, the lot line reference in the deed read 'along the white horse fence,

That sounds like a typical New England Deed.
This is the deed from a friend's property, wtf is a rod?
Good luck on finding the maple tree.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b71/saltysearay/2015-07-17_1212_zps751nwfhy.png

[mrvette]

That sounds like a typical New England Deed.
This is the deed from a friend's property, wtf is a rod?
Good luck on finding the maple tree.


:rofl::rofl::rofl:

My son out in California, gave up on auto mechanics for a living, and joined up with his FIL in his Surveying business they located in Nevada City, about 1.5 hours over the high Sierras from Reno Nv.....elevation still 3500 feet, some valley.....anyway when out there seeing my Grandson last March, I got to go out on a property dispute each neighbor worried over 3' of ground/fence when they had like 7 acres each, on the mountainside......I wish I taken my camera for pix, but did not because it is private property, lets just say I blew out my knees but good on that mountainside, :issues: the client built the house so far down hill from the road, the traffic noise stopped, and all he could hear was the creek running at bottom of the mountainside.....nice to have $$$$$$ the guy got some kind of Presidential award for medical whatever......so he had BUX.......2 gates to get in/out of the joint....:leaving::cert: