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My Ancestors in the Civil War

Remember the days of old,
Consider the generations long past.
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.
--Deuteronomy 32:7.

This Bible verse has inspired me to learn more about the "days of old" experienced by my relatives during the Civil War years. My book title, Consider the Generations, comes from this verse. At the age of 76, it seems that my life has come full circle -- from a journalism student and editor to a Peace Corps volunteer to a career community college professor and back to being a writer. I now feel compelled to write down what I have learned of the "generations long past" -- of those who are no longer here to tell their own stories.

Among those directly affected by the Civil War were all four sets of my great grandparents and their families.

--Frances "Fannie" Mills, whose husband John disappeared, never to return. Left with five young children on a small farm, she was the victim of a pillaging party of Sherman's Union soldiers marching through Georgia. Her quick thinking saved her children and kept the Yankees from burning the house down. Times were so hard, she had to give her youngest child to another family to raise.

--John Thomas Covington, an officer in the North Carolina Infantry, captured at Petersburg and sent to Fort Delaware as a POW. John's brother William Jacob Covington was captured by the Union twice--first as part of the rear guard in Robert E. Lee's retreat from Gettysburg; the second time at the Battle of Jerusalem Plank Road, where he was wounded, captured, and had a leg amputated on the field by a Union surgeon. John and William's younger brother Joseph Newton Covington died within two months of enlistment. His widowed mother Sallie spent a year dealing with CSA red tape in order to settle Joseph's case.

--"I will have to go with Abe Lincoln." This was Samuel Walter Autry's answer when his father Elijah Henry Autry gave him and his two brothers the choice of which side to join in the Civil War. His brothers opted to go with the South. Sam enlisted in the Union Cavalry in Trenton, Tennessee, about 50 miles from home. Of my great grandfathers and their brothers, Samuel Autry was the only one of the eleven to volunteer for the Union, although his military career was to be short-lived.

--William Hiram Brinlee, the youngest of five Brinlee brothers, all of whom served in the Texas Cavalry and all of whom survived the war. Too young to enlist at first, Bill joined the Texas Home Guard, and he later enlisted in Co. K, 8th Texas Cavalry. Bill's brothers Richard Mason and David Francis served in Co. K, Martin's Regiment. Goerge Robert served under Sterling Price in Co. D, 6th Regiment. Hiram Carroll enlisted twice. At age 17, he served with his brother George Robert, but he was discharged for being under-age, so he re-enlisted in a different regiment.

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  • Publication Date: May 24, 2016
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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  • Print Length: 218 Pages
  • File Size: 5,650 KB

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