Are they still around?

[JustRob]

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Back in 1997 I gave a tour of Gettysburg to some friends, one of whom brought along her boyfriend, a direct Lou Amistead descendant.

Touring the Angle was interesting, to say the least.

[EVOC]

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I would expect that a person who had two or more children prior to 1840 might have dozens of direct descendants today. Robert E. Lee must be one of those people. Kelly Ann Lee (maiden name), a 4th g-granddaughter, is my neighbor. I see no family resemblence, but she is a beautiful young woman.

[lhsnj]

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A few years back while in OIF 2 I treated the GGGNephew of General George McClellan.
I was wondering if there are descendants of other great Generals for example Lee, Longstreet, Forrest, Grant, Sherman , that are known today, and what do they do, where do they live. Etc.?

Back in 2003 (I think), I went as spectator to an event at Peterboro NY. It was a little town's local Civil War Day, but they had US Grant's Great Grandaughter there as the official event starter. It was neat to see that.

A couple years later in 2007, they had the grandson of a former slave who was freed and then came to work for the officers family who freed him there in NY. The officers decendants were there also and that was used to "open" the weekend festivites. The man sung a slave spirtiual and had a great voice.

[tomarch]

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Back in my High School days there was a local architectural firm of Robt. E.Lee & Assco.(yes he was a decendent). At a project he designed, there was a dusty old pickup belonging to the civil eng. firm of U.S.Grant & Sons (also related). I wish I had a photo.... P.S. at the time I was interning for Richard B.Taylor as well!:) Sometimes strange things happen out here in Santa Barbara....

[McKim]

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A friend knows Townsend Hardee but I have never imposed.

And I do Apologize for not signing this post above:o

[Phil McBride]

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A friend in college came from Sylacuaga, Alabama. His name was Braxton Bragg _______. He went home after graduation to work in the family textile business and I'm told went on to become a state legislator.

Phil McBride
The Alamo Rifles

[McKim]

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Well,

After some thought I decided I would add that part of my bloodline comes from Gen. James W. Forsyth. A little research on your part will show where that conversation usally goes.

[Mike Willey]

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A book that you guys might find interesting is "Generals in Bronze", published by Belle Grove Pub. I believe.

The author was a serious CW buff like us, but also an artist and living in the 1880's/90's when most of these guys were around. He had a studio in NY City, and many of them came for portraits. He compiled extensive interviews with many famous generals, and wanted to publish them in a book but was turned down time after time. The author died without ever having his work published, but it is now......and there are some great interviews in it.

Google the book and you'll find it........

Mike Willey
late of the 49th Ohio & Coffee-coolers

[Phelps' Reg't]

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A good friend of mine is the great-great grandson of Walter Quintin Gresham, division commander in the 17th Corps during the Atlanta Campaign (until badly wounded on July 20) and brevet major general. After the war he served as Postmaster General, Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State.

The same friend went to an estate sale in Ohio a number of years ago. Quite by accident, he discovered that among the items on the auction block was a cane--with the head engraved "W.Q. Gresham." Of course he bought it, and later acquired Gresham's belt plate and sterling silver cup from the administrator of the estate. It turns out that the father of the owner of these items had worked as a law clerk for the elderly General Gresham, and the general had presented these items to him as a token of his appreciation.

Jeff Patrick

[kevhar]

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Mr. Smith,

I saw that you mentioned that your mother is a cousin to Maj Gen William Grose.

I am curious if you know anything about where his personal papers are held. I was hoping they were in a library somewhere, but I haven't had any luck finding them yet.

My great-great grandfather, Lewis Kinsey Harris, served as a Lieutenant under Grose at Shiloh.

If you have any ideas where I might find more information about Grose, I'd love to hear about them.

Thank you,

Kevin Harris
kevhar72@gmail.com

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.

[Ozark Brawler]

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My former boss and good friend back in Charleston, South Carolina, last named Haskell (I won't say his first in case he doesn't want me posting about him on here), was the great-nephew of Porter Alexander. He told me his great grandmother was Porter's sister, and she had married Colonel Haskell (I'm not too up on my knowledge of this individual, but I know he commanded Haskell's Battalion of Artillery in the ANV I believe). My boss seriously considered doing CW reenacting, but after attending some mainstream events of all things and working with a couple of them who were also lost causers, it completely turned him off the hobby.

[tomarch]

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Back in my high school days I was an architectural intern with Richard B. Taylor & Assoc. (He was a direct decendent of his namesake). Another architectural firm was Robt. E.Lee & Assoc. and a surveying firm that worked with both firms was U.S.Grant and Sons. All decendents (!)

[Andrew Keehan]

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My wife's paternal grandfather, the late Southwestern Realist painter Wilson Hurley, informed her that she was related to Gen. James Wilson, Union Cavalry. My brother in Law is James Wilson Hurley so that's kind of a connection. They are also maternally related to JEB Stuart, but that's a less direct line.

[David Fox]

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My wife went through school here in western N. C. with a "Bucky" (Buckner) Moorman, a direct descendant of Simon B. Buckner, Confederate general. The physical resemblance was striking.

[john duffer]

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About 1998/1999 I attended a fundraising event at the Sam Davis Home here in Tennessee. I met a very elderly gentleman with a "Davis" nametag and asked if he was kin to the family. He said his grandfather was Sam's brother and he remembered him talking about Sam.