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From: "marcia collins" <>
Subject: Re: Service in the Civil War
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 15:17:56 -0800


There are 3 excellent Rootsweb Civil war lists. If you cannot find them, I
will gladly send you the info. I have found them to be very knowlegable and
helpful.
Marcia
-----Original Message-----
From: Virginia W. Beck <>
To: <>
Date: Saturday, December 05, 1998 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: Service in the Civil War

>I had always wondered about my Southern grandfthers' lack of service in the
>Civil War, so I created a 'date line' to see if I could make sense of it.
>Gf Joseph Francis Wilmoth was b. in 1850 in Batavia, Clermont OH, and lived
>there when the war broke out. It would seem that he was just about the
>right age to have gone into service, but no one in my father's family ever
>mentioned any military service, and I did not find him or his brothers
>listed with the Ohio Volunteer Regiments. He married in 1879. Ggf Wesley
>Warnock was b. in 1818 in KY. He raised horses in Harrison Co. KY, and my
>father said he did have two or three slaves. He married in 1860, had three
>children by 1865, and would have been nearing 50 at the time of the war,
but
>I don't think that was too old to serve -- but, again, no one mentioned
any
>military service. I have not been able to discover the names of his
>parents, or of any siblings.
>
>Both my husband's gfs served in the Union Army. One was 29, the other
18 --
>neither was married.
>
>My question: were men deferred from service for any reason?
> Thanks, Virginia
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