[CBQ] CB&Q/H&StJ & the Civil War

["Gerald Edgar" <vje68@hotmail.com>]

You just never know when/where you will pick-up a nugget of Burlington history. 
 This being the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, there is a lot of coverage 
in the media.  Our Sunday local had article about an area woman whose ancestors 
fought on the Union side; quote: 
Pvt. James "Alfred" Davis enlisted in June 1861 in the 19th Regiment of 
Illinois Volunteers - he was 18.  The 19th Regiment spent time guarding the 
Hannibal & St. Jospeh Railroad from Quincy, IL to Palmyra, MO..." (by spring of 
1862 they were stationed in Alabama where Pvt. Davis was killed by a Rebel 
bushwasker on April 17).

Richard Overton in his "Burlington Route" opus states that the only year the 
Burlington had a financial loss was 1964 due to Confederate raiders in Missouri 
severely damaging the H&stJ (guess the 19th Reg should have been kept in 
Missouri!)



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