150 years ago yesterday & today our country broke.
Inside Fort Sumter, April 12-13, 1861. Harper’s Weekly, April 27, 1861.
On this occasion I can link you to the few Civil War stories from the family saga that I have up on the Web, as of now:
Robert H Templeton, Wisconsin infantryman at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and with Sherman on his way to Atlanta.
Samuel Kirk Robins was also with Sherman and of course other places in the western theater of the war including Vicksburg and Chattanooga.
Then there’s the Reverend John Monteith that I haven’t gotten a proper biography done for, yet, but having agitated against slavery and run an underground railroad stop on the Oberlin branch, deserves a mention.
It may be time, as well as timely, to collect documentation and stories of the family through that great schism in our nation’s history.
We’ll see.
