I've met a couple people who are still fighting it.
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> From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CBQ@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> fred starr
> Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 4:27 PM
> To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [CBQ] CB&Q/H&StJ & the Civil War
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> 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
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> 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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