tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873773297219073016.post6659397550565828228..comments2024-02-18T10:28:21.939-07:00Comments on Our Family Tree Tales: 52 Ancestors: Week 16: John B Lewis in the Civil War: deserted, arrested, captured at Spring Hill, dead in a fiery explosion!Shannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12636792734842034022noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873773297219073016.post-47543951852002976102014-04-25T10:34:22.558-06:002014-04-25T10:34:22.558-06:00What a story! My great grandfather reminds me a bi...What a story! My great grandfather reminds me a bit of your John Lewis, minus the ship explosion. He, too, volunteered for the Civil War, fought in the Peninsula campaign for the 19th Virginia Infantry and then spent the rest of the war on sick furlough, or being examined by the regimental surgeon and declared unfit for duty, which enabled him to get reassigned to a hospital as a nurse. When the hospital sent him back, he'd start the process again.Schalene Dagutishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10155315167291741937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2873773297219073016.post-78742854272876563582014-04-22T14:20:39.115-06:002014-04-22T14:20:39.115-06:00Wow, great story! The best yet! I wonder if John...Wow, great story! The best yet! I wonder if John had been at Shiloh, would he have survived one of the worst battles of the Civil War? General Grant writing that the Battle of Lookout Mountain was "all poetry" would be of little comfort to the couple thousand dead and wounded in that "magnificent skirmish." The death toll of 1700 on the Sultana is shocking being even more than the Titanic. The drawing of the Sultana looks like a disaster waiting to happen even without a boiler explosion. Great Stuff.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17724947460476484161noreply@blogger.com