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Ancestors:  Civil War Veterans

Of my eight great-grandfathers, I have identified Civil War activity for four. I believe that this was probably all. Charles Woolfolk Jones and James Craddock Robertson would've been 40-50 years old, while John Cramer and Michael Bastian lived in Union Territory. The rest served in the Army of Northern Virginia.

• Hammond Fletcher Crump, Co.F, 3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment

  • Had a depression in his forehead from a slow-moving musket ball

  • Wounded at Hawe's Shop in 1864, requiring removal of one leg

  • Many other Crumps in Co.F, probably cousins

• Burwell Nicholas Holt, Co. I, 56th Virginia Infantry Regiment

  • Served in the same unit with most of his brothers. Letters home from John Lee Holt have been published in "I Wrote You Word: Poignant Letters of Pvt. Holt"

• Richard Alfred Allen, Co.C, 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment

  • Conscripted in fall of 1864

  • Absent during the winter of 1864-1865

  • Paroled from Union custody at Burkeville, April 1865

  • not known to serve with other relatives. Unit was based in Nottoway County

• William Harold Cole, Co.D, 30th Virginia Infanty Regiment

  • Served a one-month hitch near the beginning of the war, and possibly one more later on.

  • Brother Mordecai Warner Cole was in the same unit

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