Pip, I'm glad your shoulder is getting better , but so sad about the loss of the Soda Shop. I'm sure every generation says it, (when did we become our parents | grandparents?) but it's a shame that History has to be lost in the name of progress.
I have no idea what the weather looks like out there. I lost 2 weeks along the way somewhere which is why everyone thought I was going to be a 1 & done in the chat after the first week. That was either the 23 or 30 of June. the 23 was my 1st day on the sate, if I found you that early.
But I chatted the weekend of 30JUN - 3JUL the weekend I did my 1st SSS (47). Things were much more hectic & less talking on the fly for the Weekend Chat 8-10JUL before the SSS (117). Then last weekend I did the Thon (167) & spoke not at all (Have you seen the Thon selfie of my set-up?).
I was so frazzled about what day it was that I was frantically looking for the Weekend Chat for this weekend. I hadn't put the tag on my followed list yet because: a) Newbe b) time c) frazzled, so I was about to get really frustrated with my lac of results; until I noticed that it was Thursday & not Friday.
During the Thon, I worked on my line as well because they are quite prolific & I knew I had a list of plenty to be able to use without running out. I just ran the parents of each of my married couples & made profiles. While I was sifting through this data, I noticed several patterns emerging; some still are. The most prevalent pattern I encountered was the sheer number of the male members of my family that had an association to the CSA.
So that became a Project; to go through all my male relatives of that generation & make a list of what their association was & find the documentation. So far I have only gone through the 2 paternal lines of my g-gg-gggrandparents & ended up with over 2 full Platoons before I ran into Joseph L. F. Chandler; he died 12 Sep 1864 at PLPOW [Space:Point_Lookout_Civil_War_Prison].
What specifically set me off on the line I have been following is that there is an image on his Memorial site at FAG as well as this:
Enlistment:
- Enlisted on Sep 23 1861 as Private
Mustering information:
- Enlisted into I Company, 3rd Infantry (Georgia) on Sep 23 1861
- Died while serving in 3rd Infantry (Georgia) on Sep 12 1864 at Point Lookout, MD
Listed as:
- POW on Jul 21 1863 at Chester Gap, VA
Then I noticed the image listing his name & the name of the other it listed 35 other names on the image of the plaque and it obviously had more names that were out of frame.
Silly me, my first thought is "Names I have NAMES!!! Let me go spread the joyus news!" I probably should have looked to see why there was a discrepancy between his POW status location & the location of his death. When I just randomly asked the WT if anyone had ever heard of PLPOW. I had by then corrected my error in assuming that the cemetery in MD was the battlefield of Chester Gap. While Chester Gap was important in the CSA's advance/retreat & was where Joseph L. F. Chandler was captured, that's another story.
When I first asked about the possibility of someone close by if it would be possible for someone to go over there to get pictures. I hadn't learned of PLPOW yet, but Harris-47557 was gracious enough to take me up on the request. Then Kreutzer-114 tells me about the Point Lookout Civil War Prison.
I am now Manager of the former orphan Point Lookout Civil War Prison [[[Space:Point_Lookout_Civil_War_Prison|Point Lookout Civil War Prison]]] & in researching it ran into a group called Descendants of PLPOW [https://plpow.org/].
At this point, I am trying to figure out how to ethically upload son's VERY appreciated images to WikiTree. I have been to Cemetaries & commented on their "Do You Want to Join" page, so Pip might have already heard about this. This Project is on hold waiting for clarification on uploading.
On to another topic; "Have you met any Cousins?". Yes, I have because of another military cousin that was MIA in WWll & presumed. She is my Second Cousin & she's a Texas Girl. I contacted her to find the source of "The Last Goodbye" for William Francis Brunson to make another Memorial for a Fallen Soldier. Since that was the only picture I knew of him, I thought I'd track down the source & see if I could get approval for the use of the image.
That was Monday, by Wednesday, she was contacting me through FAG letting me know about what the Bryan County Genealogy Library and Archives on FB [https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=Bryan%20County%20Genealogy%20Library%20and%20Archives] in honor of the release of the 1923 records due to the Copyright running out.
Other than that, another SSS tonight so I better run & take a nap.
Bye