Musket Echos

Now here's an interesting fact. Mrs. Abe Lincoln had a half sister married to a Confederate General--Benjamin Hardin Helm. 

Emilie was much prettier than Mary, I think...

​I wonder if General Theophilus H. Holmes was acquainted with some of my cousins?? He was born in Sampson County, North Carolina where some of my folks hailed from pre-war....

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General Hood and his wife had 11 children--six of them comprising three sets of twins!! General Hood, his wife, and eldest child died of yellow fever in 1879.

The remaining ten Hood children.

Interesting: "Benjamin Huger...was born in Charleston, South Carolina. (He pronounced his name "ooh-ZHAY", although many current Charlestonians say "OOH-gee".) " 
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I get Southern, being one myself, but I'm not quite sure how you get 'ooh-ZHAY' out of Huger. 

There were SIX Confederate General Jacksons:

Alfred Eugene Jackson (apparently nicknamed "Mudwall")

John King Jackson

William Hicks "Red" Jackson

Henry Rootes Jackson

THE "Stonewall" Thomas Jonathan Jackson

William Lowther Jackson (Stonewall's second cousin)

General Micah Jenkins (South Carolina) died as a result of friendly fire. He sure was a handsome young man. 

He died at age 29, leaving behind a pretty wife and four little boys. (There was a fifth, but he had died the year before.)

And here we have General Adam Rankin Johnson (one of four CS Gen'l Johnsons). He acquired the nickname "Stovepipe" in the following fashion:

"He was well respected for his bravado, once capturing the town of Newburgh, Indiana from a large Union unit with only twelve men and a length of stovepipe mounted to a wagon. The Union soldiers, fearing the "cannon" surrendered..." (from his Find-a-Grave page)

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Now...I wonder how many General Jones there were...I guess I'll find out soon! :D

     Racheal