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Interested parties should also see Forum on Deep Creek Battle Committee on this site.
TG
Deep Creek from the Union Side
The raid on Deep Creek was conducted by the 14th Illinois Cavalry. The 14th Illinois was formed in Peoria, Illinois in the fall/winter of 1862. Most of the men were from the northern Illinois area including Chicago....
Dawn,
I don't know if you are familiar with my book The Secret of War but it is based on oral history. I have added fiction in places to fill in the historical blanks. It is probably now the best known of oral histories in Henderson County. If yo...
Deep Creek May Get HIstorical Marker, by Arron Morgan in the November 4th edition of The Smoky Mountain Times
For those interested in the Deep Creek effort I suggest reading Arron Morgan's column on the topic. It is an excellent article fulling a...
Documents or letters?
Local readers should consider reviewing anything they have realted to the Civil War in the area. Any mention of Deep Creek on an old letter or military record might be important. There could be some reference to it in old ne...
Deep Creek Progress
Things are happening for the Deep Creek battfield marker. The application for a NC Highway Historical Marker has been received in Raleigh and will be considered at the December meeting.
Karen Proctor the Chamber of Commerce d...
The 25th North Carolina Troops by Carroll Jones
I should have gotten around to reading this book sooner since I consider it my home regiment. This unit was filled with many of my ancestors. There was no regimental history of the 25th other than t...
More on Thomas M. Kuykendall
I should have pointed out that his Confederate record would be found in Volume II, page 541 of NC Troops. He was originally with the 7th Battalion, North Carolina Cavalry. Kuykendall's Confederate records are found th...
Dawn,
That is very interesting history. The Southern Claims Commission paid claims for damage caused by the Union Army during the War. The important thing to remember is that the Commission only paid claims if a person could prove that they were ...
Hi Terrell,
My 3rd great grandfather, Perry Merrell served on both sides during the Civil War. I have been told that he actually tried to file for pensions from both sides!
I only have photos of my 2nd great grandfather, Thomas M. Kuykendall in un...
Deep Creek is moving forward
A meeting will be held in Swain County next week with local officials and interested parties. A site visit will also be undertaken. Additional commemorative projects are being considered by various groups.
Thanks,
TG
Terry, see the page for the Deep Creek marker effort you've gotten going. (It's a current feature on the main page, too.)
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I am Terrell Garren and I am searching for documents, photographs and other information pertaining to Confederate soldiers known as Junior Reserves. In the last year of the American Civil War seventeen year olds were drafted and sent to the Confederate Army. Many were captured before being officially assigned to regiments. Those not captured became part of what was known as the First Regiment North Carolina Junior Reserves. There were at least two hundred such boys from our area.
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- At 6:39pm on October 22, 2009,
Dawn McCall said…
- Hi Terrell,
Email me directly at dawnmarie@citcom.net and I'll send you my McCall database in Word format. My 4th great grand uncle was David Garren who married Margaret Whitaker, then I have Theo Jesse Garren who married Maybelle Frisbee and she was a 5th cousin to me. Then, there is "Uncle" Henry Garren who married Lillie Smathers. As to the McCall line, Sarah Ellen Garren, daughter of Silas Garren and Jane Case married James Gaston McCall, son of Robert McCall and Rachel Glazener. I have transcribed a copy of Silas' will and can send you a copy if you do not already have it... it is in my database as well. Actually, Samuel McCall is both mine and my husband's 5th grandfather... with Kenneth descending directly through the McCall line and my line being through the Glazener's. Anyway... email me and I will be glad to send you what I have.
- At 3:19pm on October 22, 2009,
Dawn McCall said…
- Terrell,
My apologies for not getting back to you before now. I married into the McCall family in Transylvania County, which as I'm sure you know is kin to the Garren family. I grew up in Etowah, but in the last few years I have focused on my Buncombe/Madison county lineages and have published a book on the family and descendants of Captain Edmund Sams of Buncombe County which I am currently revising.
It may be of interest to you that where I grew up in Etowah, on Brickyard Road was property originally owned by Henry Judson Garren. My great grandmother's second husband, Sylvanus Smathers bought the property from Henry and when Vanus died, it was left to her (Wrinda Boyd Merrell Smathers). From grandma Wrinda it went to my grandmother, Jessie Merrell Jiles. My half-uncle ended up with it (a long and not so nice story) and though it was supposed to go to my son, my half-uncles wife ended up with it and sold it to the Etowah Lion's Club. I still have the deed from "Uncle" Henry to Vanus.
Anyway... now that I have written a mini-novel (seems to be a habit with us writers (smile), I will go... but if I have any info that I can share with you, will be glad to do so.
- At 2:40pm on October 13, 2009,
Sallie said… - Linda L Ross
Terrell I think you have me mixed up with Linda L Ross who is indeed a member of the Garren family. She left a post for you..and some phone numbers too..
- At 6:41pm on October 8, 2009,
Sallie said…
- Hello Terrell Garren
I know you are a Civil War Historian and I wondered if you had ever seen this poem. It was about how Stonewall outflanked the Angels and got into Heaven before them..
It had this line..."The Angels waiting on the other side blew for him tlll their trumpets burst but he slipped so fast around their flanks that he got into Heaven first.." Have you ever seen this poem? I have searched the internet for it..Just wondering..Sallie
- At 6:22pm on June 17, 2009,
linda l ross said… - Terrel I will call you soon call me anytime cell# 808 3565 or home phone 595 4560 I have some information on the Will Garren side of the family not a lot but that is on my mother's side iof the family. Her grandfather was Lucas Edward Garren I do have a few pictures of that side of the family I also have some pictures of James Manning Garren and family who was Williamson Garren's Son and my great grandfather.
- At 10:17am on May 31, 2009,
Tipper said… - Thank you for the great comment-so glad you enjoyed the Civil War Letter too!
- At 1:49pm on May 13, 2009,
Carroll Jones said… - Apologies to all for my absence from the blog for the past several days. Have been busy and still have not developed the habit of checking this website. Please do not interpret my silence as purposeful or disinterested.
Regarding the use of the word “Tories”, I have not delved into the reasons it was used so often to refer to Unionists and other northern sympathizers. Contemporaneous Confederate letters and military records reveal many instances of the derisive use of “Tories”. For example, in the Warm Springs fracas on Oct. 26, 1863 that we have been discussing one or more of the service records read “killed by Tories” for those unfortunate 25th Regiment boys who did not survive the action. However, it is easy to understand how our highlander ancestors might have drawn a comparison between those mountaineers who remained loyal to the union and the American colonists who maintained an allegiance to the Crown.
Terrell, you bring up good points about the use of pickets by Lt. Welch and the 25th as it moved down the Spring Creek road. Although I have not given it much thought, it is still hard for me to imagine a Union force of 2,000 men moving into the WNC mountains. However, Judge Garland Ferguson stated in his brief history of the 25th Regiment (included in Clark’s 1901 Several Regiments ….) that the Tories outnumbered the Confederates by more than 20 to 1. Since it was reported that the Confederate force numbered approximately one hundred or more troops, that could help explain the case that 2,000 Union troops were in the vicinity of Warm Springs. Have you any references to the 2nd N.C. Mounted Infantry in the Official Records that indicate any of their actions? I found a few references to the 2nd and 3rd N.C. Mounted Infantry units but only after the year 1863.
Terrell, if you will send me your mailing address, I will mail a hard copy of Lt. Murray’s letter from Johnson’s Island to Joseph Cathey. I believe you will find it of value and I want you to have it for your research and collection.
By the way, another interesting non-fiction book on the Civil War in the WNC mountains is Inscoe and McKinney’s The Heart of Confederate Appalachia. Also, I just finished reading Fear and found it extremely interesting and intriguing. It really opened my eyes to how the war affected the civilian population in the mountains, even those people of means.
Carroll
- At 4:34pm on May 3, 2009,
Rob Neufeld said…
- Terry, I directed Carroll Jones to your blog. Also, I asked him a question I want to ask you as well.
I'm going to be writing an article today and tomorrow about what questions people feel still need to be addressed or answered regarding the Civil War. What's your choice?
Thanks!/.Rob
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