All you have to do is visit your local VA hospital and you will find alot of
vets still fighting various wars.
Gloria
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Robert McNay" <CptMatt@...> wrote:
>
> I've met a couple people who are still fighting it.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > 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
> >
> > boy that was a long war 1964????
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Gerald Edgar <vje68@...>
> > 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!)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
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