Joined The Yanks

 I know they are nothing less,  It is treason, and those that sell to them will be dealt with as traitors to their country,  Yet I feel assured it was ignorance in some,  They couldn't deceive me in any such a manner,   how true the adage, 'The love of money is the root of all evils',  

Huntsville, Alabama, Garden

There were one hundred Alabamians Joined the Yanks, to day,  shame, shame on them,   Traitors to their country, how I detest them,  How true the expression, 'He who is a traitor to his country, is a serpent, which turns to bite the bosom that warms it,' I sincerely hope they will be Justly retributed,  Saturday 19,  Cheering news, The report of Mr Robinson's death all false, he is improving, hope he will continue so. (From Miss Priscilla Larkin: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Belle).

Stationed At Larkinville

An excerpt from Miss Priscilla Larkin: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Belle:

"A portion of Buell's Army were stationed at Larkinville a day or two.  Two of them came out here, made a more favorable impression than Michell division, because they conducted themselves better..". (July, 1862)

Michigan Historical Collections - Regarding The Michigan Thirteenth

Larkinsville, Alabama (LOC)

Casualties In The Larkinville Guards

From Miss Priscilla Larkin: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Belle:

'Tis rumored that, five of the Larkinville Guards were killed."  "...what sad afflictions upon the families, still, how consoling to know they fell in a noble and glorious cause...".

Wednesday [July] 16,  Shocking news, Can it be possible--Billie Robinson has died from the wound received at the battle of Richmond,  'Gone to that bourne from whence, no traveller returns.'

Saturday 19,  Cheering news, The report of Mr Robinson's death all false, he is improving, hope he will continue so.

Journal Of Major John Hawks

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Wikitree entry for John Hawks here.

General Albert Sydney Johnston

Texas State Cemetery (Reinterred)

The death of General Sidney Johnston is heart-rendering, He fought bled and died-- for he breathed
his last in two minutes after dismounting suppose to have bled to death from a wound in  his Leg. (Quote from Miss Priscilla Larkin: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Belle)

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Lieutent-Colonel's Commission

Portrait @ The Karl C. Harrison Museum Of George Washington

Journal of Colonel George Washington: Commanding a Detachment of Virginia Troops, Sent by Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-governor of Virginia, Across the Alleghany Mountains, in 1754, to Build Forts at the Head of the Ohio:

Met A Mr. Pat Ragland

Below is an excerpt from Miss Priscilla Larkin: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Belle:

"Frazier family and myself stayed at Bill's tonight-- there met a Mr. Pat Ragland, who is quite a curiosity to sit and listen to him talk about ornamenting "pipes" and Wednesday-- ."


There was a Patrick Ragland of Jackson County, Alabama, found in the Confederate Applications for Presidential Pardons, 1865-1867, papers (at Ancestry.com):

Included in Mr. Ragland's file was a Surgeon's Certificate of Incapacity for the Army of the Confederate States, completed in Huntsville, Alabama, on February 28, 1863.  It stated that Mr. Ragland, a lawyer, was born in Virginia, age 32, 5'10", with black hair and grey eyes.  A problem with his left joint was indicated.

Resources Explaining Sullivan's Expedition

Sullivan's expedition against the Indians of New York : a letter from Andrew McFarland Davis to Justin Winsor, corresponding secretary Massachusetts Historical Society : with the Journal of William McKendry byMcKendry, William, d. 1798; Massachusetts Historical Society; Davis, Andrew McFarland, 1833-1920; Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897

A compilation of journals/diaries regarding the Expedition:

Excerpts from McKendry's Journal:

Ditto 11 th 1778. Moderate Snow storm.

Ditto 12* T. Taylor Rec d 400 Lashes for striking Cap* Too Good
with his Gun ; he belongs to Col Putmans Reg*

Ditto 28* Majr Whitting left Albany on furlow for New England.

Ditto 29 th Nothing new.

Ditto 30* Cap* Day & Cap* Warren Arriv d in Camp in Albany
with y? Clothing for y e officers ; Sarj* Dickerman and Corp 1 Pettingill
arriv d ditto.

February 1 st 1778. Ensign Parker arrived from furlow at Albany.

Ditto 2 d Nothing new.

Ditto 6* A Brittish Soldier Rec d 30 Lashes at y e City Hall in Al
bany Put on by an Indian.

Captain William Trent

From The Plains of Abraham by Brian Connell:

"As a stop-gap, Dinwiddie persuaded a frontiersman, Captain William Trent, to recruit a hundred men from among his fellow Indian traders. ..they were packed off post-haste to start constructing a fort on the neck of land between the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers."

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"In August, 1753, he (Trent) was directed by Governor Dinwiddie, to examine the site selected by the commissioners, in 1752, for a fort on the Ohio. This was at the forks of the Ohio, where Pittsburg now stands. In a letter from John Frazier to an Indian trader named Young, dated "Forks, August 27, 1753," we find the following reference to Trent: "There is hardly any Indians now here at all, for yesterday there set off along with Captain Trent...".

Early in January, 1754, Governor Dinwiddie commissioned Trent to raise one hundred men for immediate service on the frontier. By the last of the month this force was raised, and immediately

marched to the mouth of Redstone creek, where a temporary store house was erected for the Ohio company, in which to place articles and supplies, to be carried from thence to the mouth of the Monongahela. While at Redstone, the Captain received instructions from Governor Dinwiddie to build a fort at the forks of the Monongahela and Ohio... .

Fort Pitt and Redstone On Map (Source) (Also seen here)

On the 17th the fort was given up, but not until highly honorable terms were obtained from the enemy. At this time, a Virginia regiment under Col. Fry, with George Washington as lieutenant colonel, was at Wills creek, Maryland, on its way to the forks. 

...the French enlarged and completed the fort, and named it Fort Du Quesne, in honor of the governor of Canada. 

Works In The Northern Army For 1776

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Memorandum from Jeduthan Baldwin, Engineer of the Northern Army, whose diary description is online:

"Apparently one of Baldwin's last major constructions was an attempt to build a bridge across the narrow water passage between Ticonderoga and what he first called Independency (later Independence) Point. He seems to have designed it and supervised it for some time. Construction began on March 1, 1777. By the time he left Ticonderoga in early July, construction was still under way, and the Americans were in retreat again, so the bridge probably was never finished...  ."

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My ancestor, John Backus was At Mount Independence:

John Backus's Revolutionary War Pension:

...Ticonderoga has been then but a short time when he was placed in a redout a short distance from the main fort as an artillerist together with others of the same regiment.

During the winter there was much work done in making something like a bridge across a marsh or a part of the lake from the fort to the foot of mount independence... . 

Diary From A Resident Of Sombra Township

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Native Americans Of North Carolina In 1787

Scenery In North Carolina

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Monday, September 6th, Sullivan's Expedition

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Redstone And Union Town In Asbury's Journal

Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal ...:

11 August 1803

"I dined with the aforesaid Colonel Mason [Isaac Meason],
one of the great men of the west."

"I believe God will yet work in the Redstone settlement; he has already begun amongst the Presbyterians."

1792 Map Of Pennsylvania (Including Union Town) Held At The Library of Congress 

"Next day I came to Union Town...".

Diary Of Bartlett Yancey Malone

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Full Of Yankees

Statue Of Little Girl - Huntsville, Alabama, Gardens

Miss Priscilla Larkin: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Belle:

Friday 11th-- was aroused from my peaceful slumbers before day-light this morning by Martha Ann pulling me, saying "Get up-- the town is full of Yankees".  Devils are more appropriate names, I do detest the name,

A Southern Belle's Diary And The Battle Of Mill Springs

From Miss Priscilla Larkin: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Belle:

"Sad news this morning-- a battle at "Cumberland Gap" in which the Federals were victorious-- although we retreated-- yet they were greater losers.  We regret so much that Gen. Solicoffer fell--"

Battle of Mill Springs Sign

Notes added to the transcribed diary by a descendant of Miss Larkin:

Cumberland Gap (January 19) refers to the battle of Mill Springs, Ky., generally regarded as the first Confederate defeat of the War. Rebel troops under the command of General Zollicoffer (q.v.) advanced from Cumberland Gap to the Tennessee River but were driven back by  Union forces commanded by General George Thomas.

Gen. Solicoffer (January 19) is Brigadier General Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, C.S.A., killed at the battle of Mill Springs (q.v.).

Mill Springs Park in Kentucky

Thomas Walker's Birthplace

1757 Virginia Map (Showing Portion of King and Queen County) at the LOC

"Thomas Walker was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, on the 15th day of January 1715. He was married in 1741, at the age of twenty-six years, to a young widow six years younger than himself,--Mrs Nicholas Meriwether, whose maiden name was Mildred Thornton. She was the cousin of George Washington, whose elder brother, Samuel, had married one of her near relatives; and in this way Thomas Walker became closely and doubly connected with the Washington family. Through this marriage he came into possession of fifteen thousand acres of land in a beautiful, well-wooded and well-watered region of Piedmont Virginia... ." [Source]

Henry Hay's "Christmas" Present

Hay's Journal Entry for December 26, 1789, in Fort Wayne:

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James Abbott, the father of Elizabeth (Betsey) Abbott Baby, 1777-1812, "gave" Henry Hay "his daughter Betsy over the bottle."

Major Acland In Hadden's Journal

There is a reference to Major John Dyke Acland (18 February 1746 - 31 October 1778) in Hadden's Journal (kept in Canada during Burgoyne's campaign in 1776 and 1777).

Is there a connection between the Ackland and Acklin families? I don't know.