Battle of Gettysburg--150 years later

**Scout** · 8th July 13, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Sir William

... we had dinner with Gen Lee ...

I've noticed during my many visits to Gettysburg that there are often at least half a dozen General Lee's around town!

**TheOfficialBren** · 8th July 13, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Scout

I've noticed during my many visits to Gettysburg that there are often at least half a dozen General Lee's around town!

Ah! From the Clone Wars.

**piperchris** · 8th July 13, 07:17 PM

It's really interesting reading about the ancestors that fought so bravely at Gettysburg. My hat is off to the brave soldiers who fought so gallantly on both sides! My grandfather's grandfather was a Confederate Lieutenant. His name was Elijah Phineas Daugherty. He wasn't at Gettysburg, he fought in Missouri and the west. He was born in 1827 and died in 1916 and my grandfather knew him as a little boy.

**Friday** · 9th July 13, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by Scout

I've noticed during my many visits to Gettysburg that there are often at least half a dozen General Lee's around town!

Interesting Maj. Gen. Meade is not seen very often?

**TheOfficialBren** · 9th July 13, 02:30 PM

Or Pickett? Or Chamberlain? Or Stuart( oh wait...he'd have to arrive fashionably late if at all so, in essence, his absence is portrayed by the other 7 billion people world-wide)?

**BoldHighlander** · 10th July 13, 06:31 PM

On the 3rd day of the battle of Gettysburg, my 1st cousin (5x removed) Private Egbert Moore, Co. B 48th Virginia Infantry (Brig. Gen. John M. Jones Brigade) CSA, made the charge up Culp's Hill. He would receive a crippling wound to the right hand that would end his military service...

"On the Confederate right flank, Jones's brigade of Virginians had the most difficult terrain to cross, the steepest part of Culp's Hill. As they scrambled through the woods and up the rocky slope, they were shocked at the strength of the Union breastworks on the crest. Their charges were beaten off with relative ease by the 60th New York, which suffered very few casualties. Confederate casualties were high, including General Jones, who was wounded and left the field. One of the New York officers wrote "without breastworks our line would have been swept away in an instant by the hailstorm of bullets and the flood of men."

Of the 265 men of the 48th VA Infantry engaged at Gettysburg more than twenty-five percent were disabled.

Also on that date in 1863, four of my eight Scobee / Dooley / Grimes ancestors who rode with General John Hunt Morgan & his raiders, were raising proper hell behind yankee lines as they made a mad dash north on Morgan's Great Ohio Raid (July 2nd to July 26th, 1863). One of my ancestors (Cuff Grimes) would be captured at the Battle of Buffington Island, OH (July 19th) and be sent to north to the prisoner of war camp in Chicago until his parole in 1864.

My ancestors who rode on the Great Ohio Raid were:

ALEXANDER SCOBEE - Private, Co. D, 8th Kentucky Cavalry (Col. Roy Cluke) CSA, 2nd cousin 4x removed.

STEPHEN SCOBEE - Private, Co. E, 8th Kentucky Cavalry (Col. Roy Cluke) CSA, 2nd cousin 4x removed.

JOHN AVORY "CUFF" GRIMES - Private, Co. D, 8th Kentucky Cavalry (Col. Roy Cluke) CSA 2nd cousin 4x removed.

REVEREND J.S. SCOBEE - Major & 1st Chaplain, 10th Kentucky Cavalry Partisan Rangers (Col. Adam R. "Stovepipe" Johnson) 1st cousin 5x removed.

Originally Posted by Blupiper

My son is a re-enactor here in Washington state. He is back at Gettysburg with some of his fellows performing as a member of the 7th Tennessee, Company C .... His unit will be taking part in the re-enactment of Pickett's Charge, probably the final high water mark for the Confederacy in the Civil War.

Small world! Back in the 90's I also reenacted here in Washington state with the WCWA & the (now defunct) Co. A 2nd Kentucky Cavalry "Morgan's Raiders" CSA (mounted/dismounted).