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From: "Kevin Frye" <>
Subject: Re: [TNCW] ATTACK ON MISSIONARY RIDGE
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:22:02 -0400
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You can also order the forms from the archives online at

http://www.archives.gov/global_pages/inquire_form.html

The sound of FREEDOM is something you will never hear.......until its gone.
( UNKNOWN )

Please visit my website dedicated to those Americans who were imprisoned
and died in captivity while in the service to our country
Kevin Frye
Local Andersonville Historian / National Park Service Volunteer

http://www.angelfire.com/ga2/Andersonvilleprison/index.html


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Fulghum" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [TNCW] ATTACK ON MISSIONARY RIDGE


>
> Janet,
>
> My name is Dan Fulghum and my Great-Grandfather Julius Ebenezer Fulgum was
a
> private with the 47th Tennessee Infantry Regiment at Missionary Ridge. He
> was with his brother Emory Fulghum and both were captured, then sent to
Rock
> Island POW camp in Illinois. I sent to the National Archives and the
> service record for Julius was found along with a copy of his parole from
> Rock Island dated 18 months after his capture. I'm not sure about a
website
> that listed all of the prisoners captured there. Your best bet is to find
> out the regiment your G-G-G-Grandfather fought with and send for a copy of
> his record. If you call (301) 713-6800, they can send you copies of the
> NATF Form 86 that you will need to order the records. You can also write
> them at this address:
>
> Old Military and Civilian Records (NWCTB-Military)
> Textual Archives Services Division
> National Archives and Records Administration
> 700 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
> Washington, DC 20408-0001
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Dan Fulghum
> Conroe, Texas
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janet K. Theberge" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [TNCW] ATTACK ON MISSIONARY RIDGE
>
>
> > Would you know if there was ever a list of soldiers who were taken
> prisoner
> > by the Union army after this battle? My gggrandfather, John H. Moody,
was
> > taken prisoner after the Battle of Lookout Mountain. He was supposedly
> > taken to Nashville where he was put on a train for Rock Island, Illinois
> to
> > be imprisoned there. Were the names of the soldiers recorded as they
were
> > put on the train? Were they recorded in the days following the battle
but
> > before they were sent on to the prison?
> >
> > Janet
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <>
> > To: <>
> > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 10:04 AM
> > Subject: [TNCW] ATTACK ON MISSIONARY RIDGE
> >
> >
> > > SOUTHERNERS ATTACK CHATTANOOGA YANKS ON SEPTEMBER TWENTY-SECOND
> > >
> > > On the 22nd of September in 1863, the southern forces under com-
> > > mand of General Braxton Bragg are ordered to resist the enemy at
> > > Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga. They move forward to find their
> > > northern opponent ready to receive and to entertain them. They'd
> > > approached the enemy in the fields beneath this massive mountain
> > > in Chattanooga.
> > >
> > > One southern troop is quoted as saying: 'We expected to be flung
> > > against the forts to certain destruction.' They realized they're
> > > now firmly dug in. General Bragg cancels this attack. By failing
> > > to pursue the enemy at this point, Bragg has missed their second
> > > great opportunity to destroy the union army in Tennessee.
> > >
> > > Now as the southerners occupy the commanding heights of Mission-
> > > ary Ridge and Lookout Mountain, his third great opportunity will
> > > soon take place for victory. A few days after thinking they are
> > > chasing the Confederates to Atlanta the federals find themselves
> > > about to be defeated and besieged.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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