Re: msg#8, Ferdinand Usher and Gettysburg
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Re: msg#8, Ferdinand Usher and Gettysburg
Laurinda Kidd 1/31/11
Well it is such a gripping story, but to find other Illinois Cavalry companies mentioned for instance at Oak Ridge Cemetery and not the famous 12th! That intrigues me. And I learned sooo much trying to find him. I will continue to try, mostly so that I can continue to learn about this period in our history, on which subject I was woefully ignorant. so many people are devoted to studying the Civil War and now I see why.
If I find any scrap or hint at all I will alert you. I do know that the military does not like to admit there were mass burials at certain wartime sites in any war, but that could be the case. But for Gettysburg, for the 12th, and especially for the first Union soldier--a cavalryman, no less--to be killed in the first official day of the Battle, when they even know that he was killed with one musketball shot, surely they know what happened to his body and have recorded it. Park Service working on listing every military burial in the U.S. may have the answer. You could try contacting them for that Gettysburg cemetery: whatever materials they are using to eventually get it all online, those documents are in their hands right now. the rest will take three or four years.
kathy c.