From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Wed Jan 25 16:37:23 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0PNbNRc029559; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:37:23 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0PNbMPh002473 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:37:22 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0PL9gFI016853 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:09:42 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k0PL9gAU016852 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:09:42 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k0PL5FFI016791 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:05:15 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k0PNWjlc028290 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:32:45 -0700 X-Envelope-From: sked@pddoc.com Wed Jan 25 16:32:45 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k0PNWjRc028209; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:32:45 -0700 Received: from grenada.globat.com (grenada.globat.com [216.193.201.33]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0PNWgDV000452; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:32:43 -0700 Received: from cm-ms4.globat.com (cm-ms4.inside.globat.com [10.1.1.145]) by grenada.globat.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k0PNWZxe080098; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:32:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sked@pddoc.com) Received: from localhost (cm-ms4 [127.0.0.1]) by cm-ms4.globat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFA9F2DEB29; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:32:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from cm-ms4.globat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cm-ms4.globat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15598-02-54; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:32:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from pddocg5g26quan (69-29-171-218.dyn.centurytel.net [69.29.171.218]) by cm-ms4.globat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD2B52DEB6E; Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:32:34 -0800 (PST) From: "sked" To: , Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:32:18 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Thread-Index: AcTvqpgwLpZB4MteSNWHjpOMXB69/wAc3MJA In-Reply-To: <90.5430a8d9.2f06fd8e@aol.com> Message-Id: <20060125233234.CD2B52DEB6E@cm-ms4.globat.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at globat.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] =?us-ascii?Q?=22Father=2C_don't_you_know_us=3F=22_or_=22brother_pitte?= =?us-ascii?Q?d_against_brother_and_kin_against_kin=22?= Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com While working on material from January 25, 1862, for posting to my web log, I came across an interesting human interaction segment from one news article. In January 1862, an exploratory foray was made by Generals Grant and McClernand and their engineer corps from Cairo, Illinois to obtain information in preparation for a movement of Federal forces down the Mississippi. The following is a small piece of an article published about the foray in the New York Herald on January 25, 1862. As to the political feeling of the country through which we passed, I may say that we found none but professed Union men. In no neighborhood could we hear of an active rebel; but, like the sickness in Illinois, there were plenty of secessionists "ahead" or "Over on t'road." In Milburn we found many avowed Union men, who had maintained their principles in the face of all the rebel influences. Such doffed their hats and cheered loudly when our bands marched through the town playing our national airs, and one good Union lady - a Miss Thomas - fairly went into convulsions with delight at seeing the Stars and Stripes once more in the village where the dirty rag of secession had so long flaunted. On the road from Weston's to Milburn an incident occurred which I shall very long remember, both for its filial affection and the example it furnished of the unnaturalness of this rebellion. I had ridden on in advance of the column to a log farmhouse, about midway between the two places, and was warming myself before a lusty fire when the advance came up. No one was at home but an old gentleman of perhaps sixty winters, his wife, and two or three juveniles. I sat talking to the old couple, when two young men, privates in the Thirtieth regiment, stepped in the doorway and accosted the old man with a hearty "morning!" The old man returned the greeting, gave his hand for a shake, offered a chair by the fire, and was about to turn to another comer, when one of the boys exclaimed: - "Father, don't you know us?" The old man stopped, looked, rubbed his eyes as if to test his vision, advanced a step, said,"." and there his utterance choked in this throat, extended both his hands again, and followed up with such a shaking. The matron, when we heard the question "Father, don't you know us?" dropped her cotton cards, sprang to her feet, and - acted precisely as any good old mother would at seeing her two sons after an eight years' absence. Then there were a hundred hurried questions asked and answered, as many filial kisses exchanged, and a thousand endearments lavished which the reader must picture to himself. One of the questions asked by the boys was: "Where is Ed?" (a younger brother) in answer to which the old man said, with evident trepidation: - "He went off to Columbus with Charley Wickliffe." Then there was a scowl mantled over those tw0 young men faces, and one replied: - "Ed in the rebel army! Well, I hope never to meet him in the rebel ranks; but if I do"- and he did not finish his threat; for his mother's arms were about his neck, and he was choked off from what he would say by the pleading of his mother that he spare her youngest boy. This is no sketch, but is an every day illustration of how, in this war, brother is pitted against brother and kin against kin. The full article is at http://www.pddoc.com/cw-chronicles/?p=4802 The blog "Chronicles of the American Civil War" is searchable from every page and currently has over 4200 posts from news articles and diaries from January 1, 1861 through January 25, 1862. http://www.pddoc.com/cw-chronicles/ Mike Goad http://www.pddoc.com/cw-chronicles http://www.pddoc.com/out