My Great Great Grandfather Thomas J. Higgins won The Medal of Honor with the 99th Illinois Regiment at the Battle of Vicksburg. I have his binoculars and telescope from the war. He survived and is buried in Hannibal Missouri where the family moved after the war. When you drive into the battlefield park you go past a little cemetery on the left and there is a small monument to the action on the side of the hill where he raised the Union flag over a Confederate position manned by Texans. https://civilwartalk.com/threads/color-bearer-thomas-j-higgins.94853/
I'll raise a glass of whisky to both your grandfather Mr. Higgins and Mr. Ansley.
One of my biker buddies down the road his great great grandfather was Jack Hinson. Jack took up arms at the ripe old age of 57 after Union a-holes killed his kids. They wrote a book about him - do a search - it's an amazing story. Killed buku Yankees along the river. He had a custom built 50 cal rifle he bought after he sold his farm when his son's were murdered.
It's written that 'He targeted Union soldiers at distances as great as a half mile on land and on military transports and gunboats on the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River. Hinson has been credited with as many as one hundred kills, although his rifle had only 36 notches although it has been suggested that the notches were for officers only.'
My grgr grandfather, Cicero Ansley- Tennesse Heavy Artillery, was on the cannon crew that sank the USS Cincinnati during the siege.
ReplyDeleteMy Great Great Grandfather Thomas J. Higgins won The Medal of Honor with the 99th Illinois Regiment at the Battle of Vicksburg. I have his binoculars and telescope from the war. He survived and is buried in Hannibal Missouri where the family moved after the war. When you drive into the battlefield park you go past a little cemetery on the left and there is a small monument to the action on the side of the hill where he raised the Union flag over a Confederate position manned by Texans.
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I'll raise a glass of whisky to both your grandfather Mr. Higgins and Mr. Ansley.
DeleteOne of my biker buddies down the road his great great grandfather was Jack Hinson. Jack took up arms at the ripe old age of 57 after Union a-holes killed his kids. They wrote a book about him - do a search - it's an amazing story. Killed buku Yankees along the river. He had a custom built 50 cal rifle he bought after he sold his farm when his son's were murdered.
It's written that 'He targeted Union soldiers at distances as great as a half mile on land and on military transports and gunboats on the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River. Hinson has been credited with as many as one hundred kills, although his rifle had only 36 notches although it has been suggested that the notches were for officers only.'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Hinson
We haven't forgot here in Texas.
Never have understood how the North could treat their fellow Christian brothers so viley.
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