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Re: Civil War Burial

Posted: 27 Aug 2008 12:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
Yes Ann, I did get your email and thank you for the research you have done on this.
I wrote you back, but for those that have been helping me that was not my Amos Crane, wish it were:)

Mine was in the 72nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Company F.
He died 24 April, 1865, two months after writing a letter home to Sandusky Co., OH. and was very ill at that time.
He also had a brother who had been taken prisoner and sent to Andersonville Prison. This brother died just 3 days after Amos, on the steamship Sultana that sunk near Memphis. A 3rd brother made it home to Ohio.

Nancy

Re: Civil War Burial

Posted: 29 Apr 2014 1:02PM GMT
Classification: Query
Did you ever find your Gr-grandfathers burial site? I live near Sandy Ridge, Al (there is also a Little Sandy Ridge pretty close to Sandy Ridge).

Re: Civil War Burial

Posted: 8 May 2014 7:53PM GMT
Classification: Query
Hi Andy,

Thank you for your replies~

Sorry to be so late getting back to you, but I didn't get any notice that you had replied? I thought Ancestry used to send messages to people when they had a new message, but maybe not.

No, I have never found where Amos Crane was buried. I imagine back then soldiers may have been buried in mass graves, and this will remain one mystery I will never have the answer to in my research.

Nancy

Re: Civil War Burial

Posted: 28 May 2015 5:26AM GMT
Classification: Query
I am intrigued by your dilemma of finding your relative, Amos Crane's, resting place. I also sympathize for you because I know how difficult it is to reach a dead end.

I want to help you. I live near the Sandy Ridge area. It is a tiny community on State Hwy 31 in Loundnes County. All that is left of pre-Civil War Sandy Ridge is the Sandy Ridge Methodist Church, a cemetery, old buildings and an old house/mansion (J. S. Williamson House) that is on the historic register. You note that your relative died April 24th, 3 weeks after the war was over. That makes me curious about what troops might be doing in Lowndes County. The last battle in Alabama was in nearby Selma, Al, (Dallas Co.). That battle was in April 1965. Old men and young boys were left to defend the city; Union troops quickly won. Their objective was to destroy cannons and ammunition that were made there. They pushed the cannons into the river where they remain today. If you look at a map, you can see how Dallas Co., Loundes Co. and Montgomery Counties all line up side by side. You will also remember how the civil rights marchers marched from Selma/Dallas Co., through Loundes Co. (remember some people were killed there), then Montgomery. Their march followed Hwy 82 east to west. But look at the map again. Sandy Ridge is in the lowest part of Loundes County and it makes no sense (I would think) to detour that far south to get to Montgomery where they probably were going to hop a boat north. There's a small chance that they might have been headed towards nearby Ft. Deposit in Loundes Co. to catch a train. I know I have offered no answers, but I hope this adds some perspective on your search.

Now what really bothers me is that I am fairly familiar with all the cemeteries in Loundes Co. as I have many kin folk in my family tree buried in them. I am not aware of any union soldiers buried in Loundes Co. I've never heard of any "mass graves" or field hospitals either. It would make more sense to me that he may be buried in Montgomery's oldest cemetery, Oak Hill. Or a single unmarked grave, but I don't think there was a mass grave site.

Outside of your research, what can I do to help you?

Brenda McAllister
surnames: Adams, Boen, Cook, Jones, Majors, Webb, Whittle
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