Shiloh Battlefield.....

[Tyler Ramsey]

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Hope you enjoyed this thread!!!

[Rick Research]

VERY nice tour, Tyler!

Now here's a "Yankee" connection-- my 3rd cousin 4 times removed, Lucian Loomis Rich (born Liberty, MO September 1831, USMA Class of 1853) was mortally wounded at Shiloh on April 6, 1862 as Colonel commanding 1st Missouri Infantry Regiment, CSA. This is the first time I have seen that battlefield. He took until August 9, 1862 to die, in Okolona, Mississippi, being buried at long last in Mobile, Alabama (Magnolia Cemetery Lot 17, Square 5)--journeying almost as much AFTER death as in life.

His father was Hiram Rich (born in Vermont), US postmaster and Post Sutler at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas from 1841 until his death there in 1862. HIS house/office is the Commandant's Residence there to this day.

Hiram's daughter Kate (Lucius's sister) married Oliver Duff Greene, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor at Antietam a month after Lucius's death, and ended the war as a brevet Brigadier General, USA (spending long decades reclimbing the ranks again afterwards).

Their daughter Mary Greene Bonesteel was the grandmother of the American officer (Charles H. Bonesteel III, retired later as a 4 star General) who decided on the 38th Parallel as border in Korea 1945.

Lucius was owed some pay when he resigned from the US Army as 1st Lt in the 5th Infantry in 1861. Due to various bureaucratic snafus, it was not paid out until 1916, when it had reached the sum of $504.15 with 55 years interest. It was paid to the nearest surviving heirs of Colonel Lucius Rich-- his niece Mary Bonesteel, her daughter Catherine Stone (another family of Generals) and grand-nephew by marriage Major General Francis Kernan.

Lucius's widow Mary (Bradley?) took their young son back and forth through the warring lines-- enemy or no, blood kin of her son were kin. She died sometime between August 1862 and July 1864, probably on the Yankee side of the lines, since son Bradley Rich (b. abt 1857) was made the ward of his grandmother. When he died in LaGrange, KY in 1872, about 15, that was the end of Lucius's line. I doubt anyone from his/my family has ever been to his grave. I hope the local DVC or whoever tend it in his memory.

Yup, civil war's ARE "complicated." But in time all debts ARE paid, and many families are "one" again.

[Tyler Ramsey]

Thanks a lot Brian and Rick!
And thanks for the interesting Family History Rick!
I myself had 2 relatives who fought at Shiloh. One was Simon Vess. He served with a Cavalry unit while at Shiloh. He later became a part of the 7th Cavalry commanded by Joe Wheeler. He fought at many battles during the Civil war, and 2 months AFTER the war was over, he surrendered. He never got above the rank of Pvt.
My other Relative was named Henry Askew. He served with the 28th Inf. Regt. while at Shiloh. He was killed at the end of the road where they were chasing the union men and right when the Confederates started to run back from the chruch he was shot. It is not know what happened to him after that. He might have crawled to the bloody pond to wash his wound, he might have bleed to death where he dropped, or he might have died instantly. I really do wish i knew, but unfortunately I don't.

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Tyler, thanks for posting such a great series of photos. I have never seen this battlefield either ( I have yet to visit the USA) and I was impressed by the memorials. The exhibits in the museums look very interesting. The cannon rounds look evil. No wonder the wounds suffered by the men were so bad. Nice to see the uniforms and flags displayed. Besides being of great historical importance the exhibts must be worth millions of dollars?

Hi Rick, another great peice of research as per usual!

Cheers, Ade.