My 3g grandfather, Charles Minor, is an ancestor I have written about before (here and here) but in the spirit of Veterans Day, I want to write a little about his overall service in the Civil War. He enlisted on …
I recently became the very pleased recipient of an orphaned photograph. I received the newest Huron County Kinologist in the mail a week or two ago, and actually sat down to read it (rather than my more usual habit of …
Wounded on Morris Island, South Carolina, 1863 For this story, I decided to first present the story that Grandpa Lyle remembered being told as a young boy and then to copy what Grandpa Minor had said in his diary. The …