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

[fred starr <frdstarr@yahoo.com>]

boy that was a long war 1964????





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From: Gerald Edgar <vje68@hotmail.com>
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, August 8, 2011 12:47:58 PM
Subject: [CBQ] CB&Q/H&StJ & the Civil War

  
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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