"Letters of John Samuel Shropshire, Major, 5th Texas Cavalry" Topic
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Tango01 | 29 Oct 2020 4:48 p.m. PST |
"In 1861 and 1862, while serving as a Confederate officer en route to and on campaign in New Mexico, John Samuel Shropshire wrote a series of letters to his wife, Caroline. The letters were passed down to their son, Charles Tait Shropshire, then to his widow, the former Nellie Hahn, and then to her relatives. In 1973, Guy Hahn presented eight of the letters and a list of casualties to the Shropshire-Upton Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for their museum in Columbus, the Confederate Memorial Museum. Later, two more letters written by Shropshire were presented to the museum, one by Betty Bauer the other by Beverly Hahn Carroll. Some fifty years earlier, the chapter had received a letter from one of Shropshire's former comrades-at-arms, John W. Carson, which described Shropshire's death in combat. The letters were published in Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, January 1997, pp. 61-70. On May 16, 1998, another letter was presented to the archives. This letter has been assimilated into the following material. It was the letter which accompanied the list of casualties at Valverde. Further, the Tait family had preserved a note written by Shropshire to his future wife in the spring of 1859. That note has also been transcribed and appears below…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Wackmole9 | 29 Oct 2020 5:48 p.m. PST |
In 1987 two Confederate burial sites were discovered at Pigeon's Ranch. One was the solitary grave of Maj. John Samuel Shropshire, the other was a mass grave of 30 Confederates. Only Shropshire and five others could be positively identified On August 5, 1990, Maj. Shropshire's remains were reburied next to his parents in his family's cemetery in Bourbon County, Kentucky. The remaining 30 Confederates were in the Santa Fe National Cemetery. |
Tango01 | 30 Oct 2020 12:41 p.m. PST |
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