Thank you so much for replying...very few did! I appreciate the info and it
is much as I suspected...it WOULD be a very cool thing to be able to
definitely confirm this recently discovered tidbit of info about Liberty C.
Bartlett (the son), but it may not even be true. Liberty Bartlett, Sr. (the
father and the one who made the statement about his son being killed in the
Battle of Shiloh, on the Confederate side), was apparently quite the "spin
doctor" and seems prone to reinventing himself and his family,
Dear Kathy,
I am sorry I misaddressed you as "Sarah." I was replying to
another southerner by that name just before I sent yours. She lives in
Georgia. And don't discount that Liberty did die for the Confederacy. It would not
have been that unusual. the state of Tennessee was filled with both
"Lincolnites" and Rebels. Tennessee is considered a Southern State, but sent more men to
the Service of the Union than almost any other. Often the fights of southerners
had more to do with protec
This soldier, killed at Shiloh, is not related to me, but I found a marker
for him and burials presumably family members in Asbury Chapel Cemetery,
Muskingum County, OH
King, Henry Dumont 1817-1861 C o. B. 154 OVI
Killed in the Battle of
Shiloh at Pittsburgh Landing. Buried
in Nat'l cemetery there
ing, Sarah
Dear Sarah,
I do not know if you have received any substantial
information on casualties or casualty lists. I have been compiling first hand and
government reports about Shiloh for about two years. I know I have barely scratched
the surface. The problem I have found with the Confederate Casualty lists is
the fact that they essentially lost the control of the ground on the second
day, leaving most of their dead on the field. When General Beaureguard requested
truce to bury the Confeder