Are they still around?

[Curt Schmidt]

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Hallo!

Jubal Early IV...

Herr Greg.... Far be it from me to call a man a lair AND a bastard. :)
(Maybe his unrealted family just liked the sound of the name. I have a cousin Edward Smith V. Edward Smith III just turned 97.)

Curt

[Chihuahua]

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Pards,
A friend of mine in town claims to be a direct ancestor of Ambrose Burnside. He teaches English at a nearby community college and attends my church. Funny thing, he knew very little about Burnside, but, knowing of my interest in the war, mentioned his relationship in casual conversation with me. I encouraged him to dig deeper, which he has done. He still claims the general as family, but with a lot less pride than before!
Mark Warren
Hairy Nation Boys

[Pat.Lewis]

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A Ben Hardin Helm the something-ith of Louisville visited Chickamauga a couple of summers ago. Take the short-haired, clean shaven photo of the Gen. in his Kentucky State Guard uniform, 1860, and age him 25 years and you may picture this gentleman.

Made me think that -- had he not been killed there -- that's what Ben would have looked like if he would have come back to the battlefield for a vet's reunion.

[Canebrake Rifle Guards]

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Hallo!

Jubal Early IV...

Herr Greg.... Far be it from me to call a man a lair AND a bastard. :)
(Maybe his unrealted family just liked the sound of the name. I have a cousin Edward Smith V. Edward Smith III just turned 97.)

Curt

Jube never married, but he had children by two different women (african-american women), it made him quite the pariah.

Greg Starbuck

[Canebrake Rifle Guards]

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I know that Junmo pled out to some of the charges, but I haven't heard what Pritchard did.

I'm pretty sure both spent time in the pokey. Albeit a country club type pokey. Juno is back dealing Civil War artifacts.

Greg Starbuck

[Vuhginyuh]

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...purchase a trunkful of the general's possesions from Pickett V...

PICKETT V DID NOT SELL TO THE BUMS, another family member did. End of discussion.
I have asked the moderators to monitor this. I'm sorry I brought it up.

[Rev]

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Richard Taylor's Great Grandson is alive and well in the Mobile Community. He portrays his GGrandfather at Magee Farm in Kushla. The very house and farm where Taylor surrendered to Canby.

[DJCasey]

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Pards,
A friend of mine in town claims to be a direct ancestor of Ambrose Burnside. He teaches English at a nearby community college and attends my church. Funny thing, he knew very little about Burnside, but, knowing of my interest in the war, mentioned his relationship in casual conversation with me. I encouraged him to dig deeper, which he has done. He still claims the general as family, but with a lot less pride than before!
Mark Warren
Hairy Nation Boys

There is a bartender at a local joint I frequent who is named Burnside. A young guy, mid twenties. I ask him if there was any relation to the general and he said there was. I am not sure now what exactly the relation was, but he did talk about his family keeping it kind of hush hush for years due to Burnsides less than steller reputation.

Ulysses S. Grant, V is still alive, I'm pretty sure. A few years back, he auctioned off some of his famous ancestor's belongings. He remains active in various projects related to his great-grandfather (apparently there was more than one male member, within the same generation, named for Ulysses).

Eric

Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant. He started going by Ulysses S. (for Simpson, his mothers maiden name) after a mistake in his West Point application.

[MoFed]

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About five years ago one of Thomas Ewing's descendants donated his Field & Staff officer's sword to the Fort Davidson SHS, Pilot Knob, MO.

Charles D. Hoskins
Holmes Brigade USV, Inc.

[ryanbmm]

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my uncle is a gg?nephew of John w Booth, though him and my aunt are divorced now still think its neat. know he wasnt a gen. mods do with post what need be.

[Utley]

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I have a friend who works for the Meridian, MS, Police Dept. and his last name is Read. Family is from there, so they have to be related to Lt. Read of CS Navy fame who was from the same area. That spelling of the name is unique as well, usually seen as Reed.

There is also Catesby Jones who is a banker (unless he's retired in the last few years) in Selma, AL. He's a ggrandson of the well known Jones of the CS Navy.

Hey, no one has mentioned that guy that used to show up at events all over the KY and TN area claiming he was John C. Breckenridge's grandson, always carrying the walking stick he claimed was his grandfathers!!

[JustRob]

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I went out with the gggdaughter of Hiram Berdan for a while. Direct descendant, too.

I remember meeting several members of the Grant family at the big Grant's Tomb event back in the 90's.

[Canebrake Rifle Guards]

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There is also Catesby Jones who is a banker (unless he's retired in the last few years) in Selma, AL. He's a ggrandson of the well known Jones of the CS Navy.

I met grandson Catesby who must be this guy's father. My Catesby was 80 or 90. He brought to us Jones' original ordnance journal from his service on the USS Merrimac. (Prior to the war he was the ordnance officer on that ship). In it was handwritten notes on every single gun on the ship. Jones was responsible for setting up the ordnance, sighting the guns, inventorying ammunition, etc.

The family donated the journal to our museum. Years before they had donated Jones' CSN frock.

Greg Starbuck

[Gallo de Cielo]

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Chris,

The Breckenridge fellow stumbled into my bivouac at the 1997 NSA event at Spring Hill and told the tales which you mentioned in your post.

My thinking was that the Breckenridge family appears to have had its glory days several generations back.

Kind regards,

[D F Smith Historic]

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Hi All,

My Mother is a cousin to Maj Gen William Grose.

W. Grose started out being the Col of the 36th Indiana at Shiloh, Was promoted to brigade command under Gen Don Carlos Buel, Army of the Ohio.

General Grose whent on to command the 3rd Brigade, 1st Div of the 4th Corps. Post war he served as a Military juge untill 1866 when he returned to private practice & eventually became the Attourny General of Indiana. He wrote the history of the 36th Ind.