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From: Al Smith <>
Subject: Re: [CHASTAIN-L] A. Chastain - salt works near Manchester, KY
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 20:28:29 -0400
Cheryl....I would like to have these items you mention, if you don't
mind and have the time. Does this include the other two as well? I do
appreciate what you are doing in this line of Chastains. TIA.....AL
ICQ # 36169794
Cheryl White wrote:
>
> Title of book I found this in is: War of the Rebellion, Series I, Vol. XVI,
> part 1 Reports, p. 1152-1153; A compilation of the Official Records of the
> Union and Confederate Armies.
> Report is about the "Destruction of Goose Creek Salt-Works, near
> Manchester, KY
> Report #4, Report of the Board of Officers, Headqaurters First KY
> Volunteers, Camp near Columbia, KY, 1 Nov. 1862
>
> I will just roughly tell you what the report is, if anyone is interested in
> the full report email me and will send. Or if anyone wants the full report
> posted to the list to be found in the archives will do that also.
>
> This report was submitted by D. A. Enyart, Col. 1st KY Regt; Charles S.
> Hanson, Lt. Col. 20th KY Regt.; Warner Spencer Lt. Col. 2nd KY Regt.; and
> Capt. W. H. Fairbanks, Assistant Adj. Gen., 22nd Brigade.
> It discusses the destruction of the Salt Works found with 5 miles of the
> town of Mancehster, KY. "The fourth, owned by Alexander White and Mrs. J.
> T. Woodward and her daughter, Mrs. Mollie Shackelford, and was occupied by
> Stephen Gibson and A. CHASTAIN."
> In discussing the destruction of the salt works: "...in the case of
> CHASTAIN and Gibson an iron bar was forced down into the well and into the
> well pipe and 300 feet of the surface pipe and all the wood work of the
> pans were destroyed."
> Cheryl White
>
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