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Letters From Readers — January 2007 Civil War TimesCWT Issues | 0 comments | Print This Post | Email This Post Wrath Awaits the Invader I especially liked the account of the two women involved. Though I am an avid reader of first person accounts, I have seldom read accounts of Confederate women as participants or casualties and hope this may bring more examples to light. Please keep up the good work. Every bit of truth you can introduce to the world will help brighten the Confederacy’s undeservedly tarnished reputation. Shannon Pritchard Connecticut Connection I learned from the National Archives that George H. Keables served in Company H of the 11th Connecticut. He was promoted to sergeant when he reenlisted as a veteran volunteer (under General Order 191) on December 13, 1863. He was promoted to second lieutenant at Chapin’s Farm, Va., on December 10, 1864, and in June of 1865 was made first lieutenant and transferred to Company E as acting quartermaster. By this time the record shows he was in the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, of the XXIV Corps under Maj. Gen. Edward Ord. He resigned his commission on May 16, 1865, an order approved and signed by General Ord. The archival records, to my disappointment, give little information about the war record of my great-grandfather and the 11th. As for the battle at Burnside’s Bridge on September 17, 1862, his muster roll records for the months of September and October 1862 have no remarks. I cannot say whether he was engaged in battle there or not. The records show only that the 11th was at Fredericksburg and the siege of Suffolk, Va., but I can assume they were at many other engagements. The one fact the records do show is that in four years my great-grandfather went from a private to a first lieutenant at the age of 23. Given the casualty rate of soldiers due to disease and combat I find it remarkable that George H. Keables made it through the entire four years unscathed. He died in 1915 at 75 years old. George R. Ullrich Tags: Civil War Times
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