me. I have ancestors that fought in the civil war, direct and not so direct and some from marriage,
I am always looking for items that the average civil war GI carried, I have some memorabilia from my Great Grandfather Martin Barger, Corporal B Co, 25 Ill, from Danville Ill.
He survived Stones River, Chickamagua, Missionary Ridge, and Lookout Mountain. He fathered my Grandmother in 1888. I have two pistols and a Leech and Rigdon Confederate Bowie Knife, both his.
In his later years he was appointed Colonel and commanded the Old Soldiers Home in Danville Ill, which later became and is the VA Hosp
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