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Gregory
May 30th, 2005, 02:25 PM
My great, great, grandpap fought in the battle of Gettysburg during the Civil War for the Union and in many smaller skirmishes from VA to Gettysburg.
His name was George Calvin Fields and was born and lived in my hometown of Fairchance, PA till his death I think in 1901.
He enlisted in October 16th 1862 and served in company E of the 168th regiment of PA. His commander was Capt Joseph Stacey.

He was discharged in July of 1863.
He contracted inflammation of the eyes and rheumatism in Suffolk VA from sleeping outside without tents.

I have uploaded 5 PDF documents of his pension papers. If it does not work for you then you may need to download the latest version of Adobe reader 6.0

I found out that after he died his wife moved in a log cabin just down the road from where I live now:biggrin: I'll be detecting that foundation soon:biggrin:

Hope you enjoy the documents.

Greg


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ausableBill
May 30th, 2005, 02:33 PM
That is awesome Greg. That made for some very interesting reading. Good luck on hunting the old foundation, hope ya find a lot of good things there.
Blythe_Spirit_47
May 30th, 2005, 02:34 PM
Greg, it must be so satisfying to know that kind of family history. I can't wait to see what you find at that cabin site.
WVaTom
May 30th, 2005, 03:10 PM
hope you do well at the ole homesite! My g,g.grandfather was in the 8th VA Cav,CSA.he was captured and sent to camp chase,MD in late 1864.
diggertodd
May 30th, 2005, 10:29 PM
My great-great grandfather on Mom's side fought for the Union in Arkansas...became Governor of Arkansas in 1876 I believe. Hate to say it, but I think his administration was pretty corrupt.

Governor Elisha Baxter from Batesville,AR via a move from North Carolina in the 1850's.

In my opinion he fought for the wrong side, but it was his choice to make.

On dad's side there were spies and all Confederates. :duel:
Pat
May 31st, 2005, 11:00 PM
Would be great to find something that a relative owned from that many years ago! Hope you find some interesting things!

Happy hunting!
Pat