Posted 11 years ago
blunderbuss2
(199 items)
I can't express how elated I am to be reunited with my Confederate Reunion medal! I thought I had left it at a friend's home & his sorry son have stolen it with other things he stole from the locker. My mother collected old silver coins & while visiting my sister, I told her I wanted some old valuable English coins (a future poste) I had given Mother. Half of the collection is mine. We drug this 50 lb. bag out & I started looking. Found the Eng. coins & was shocked to find that she had stashed-away the medal I thought was stolen. I will sleep with a smile tonite. The medal is from a Dallas reunion in 1902 & now again a family treasure. Last pic is 1 of 2 bags of coins.
Christmas in July. Great story BB2. & a very nice medal.
Dave
Thanks pw, & I will enjoy my Xmas in July as well as sleep well. United with "reunited" at last!
Nice find-- another thing to make the trip to the US better!
scott
These are great!!!!!
Wonderful discovery and happy for you! I have a few old UK coins I'll end up researching at some point, but was just curious-why the two rings at the top? Were they added later to wear as a necklace or something?
The custom, then as now, is to have it on a campaign ribbon, like a medal. I have at least 3 ancestors who fought under Gen. N.B. Forrest with the 32/36th Texas cavalry. That's just from one family of my ancestors and there were many more from other branches of the tree.
Thanks for the education, blunderbuss2. I also have ancestors who fought, and died, in the Civil War, as Confederates from Mississippi, Texas and parts uncertain of. I appreciate the info on this (and other) “coins”. It all makes sense now!
Hope I stirred up an interest in your ancestry. It can get fascinating. I also found that on my grandmother's side of the family, one served in Ross's TX Brigade and they fought in many well known battles, including from Chickamauga to Atlanta.
Nice medal. I had ancestors on both sides, too. My ggrandfather's brother-in-law was Silas "Cy" Gordon an infamous Confederate guerilla in western Missouri. My grandfather knew Frank and Jesse James. My family moved to Missouri in 1858 from Kentucky and some joined the Union army, some joined the Confederate army, some went back to Kentucky. It was a mess but the family reunited after the war.