When I saw that photograph, my first reaction was wondering if my Great Great Great Grandfather was with that group?
He was Corporal Jonathan Trueblood, North Carolina 7th Regiment, Confederate Senior Reserves.
His unit mostly guarded Union prisoners of war, but they were in combat at the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina (the last major engagement of the war), and he was listed among those present when General Joseph Eggleston Johnston surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman.
But, since Jonathan Trueblood was born in 1818, I reckon he probably wasn't in that parade.
Nope, my great, great could not have been there either as he died in 1914.
A monument erected at the time of his death and depicts two hands shaking, one black and one white, with the inscription: "This Is What He Meant - All Men Up, Erected By His Colored Friends."
When I saw that photograph, my first reaction was wondering if my Great Great Great Grandfather was with that group?
ReplyDeleteHe was Corporal Jonathan Trueblood, North Carolina 7th Regiment, Confederate Senior Reserves.
His unit mostly guarded Union prisoners of war, but they were in combat at the Battle of Bentonville, North Carolina (the last major engagement of the war), and he was listed among those present when General Joseph Eggleston Johnston surrendered to General William Tecumseh Sherman.
But, since Jonathan Trueblood was born in 1818, I reckon he probably wasn't in that parade.
Nope, my great, great could not have been there either as he died in 1914.
ReplyDeleteA monument erected at the time of his death and depicts two hands shaking, one black and one white, with the inscription: "This Is What He Meant - All Men Up, Erected By His Colored Friends."
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