See You In The Field

By Rick Walton  Copyright (C) 2013 Today I am  Honoring  the men of the 6th North Carolina State troops who were casualties of the battles around Fredericksburg, as part of the Chancellorsville Campaign, 150 years ago on May 4, 1863. Sergeant Bartlett Yancey Malone One of the 6th North Carolina State Troops members, Sergeant Bartlett Yancey Malone of Company H,  left his impressions of that day in his diary: " ...we was marching about first from one plais to nother a watching the Yankees untell about a hour by sun and the fight was opend our bregaid went in and charged about half of a mile and just befour we got to the Yankee Battery I was slightly wounded above the eye with a peas of a bumb[.] non was kild in our company. Lieutenant Walker was slitley wounded in the side. I. R. Allred was wounded in the arm hat to have it cut off. I. E. Calmond was slitly wounded in the arm. I. L. Evans had his finger shot off--- " This action took place in front of their position on the ext

Copyright 2013 By Frederick Walton, Associate member of the L. L. Polk SCV Camp Saturday April 20, 2013 was a beautiful spring day, although still a little chilly. It was bright and sunny...one of those days when you can't wait to get outside. It was a beautiful day to work in the yard among the blooming trees of spring. It was a day we chose to meet at the Oakwood Confederate Cemetery for our annual Spring cleanup. Members of the Colonel Leonidas L. Polk SCV camp 1486 from Garner, NC converged on Oakwood Confederate Cemetery at 9 AM armed with buckets, brushes, hoses and bleach. There are many ways to honor our Confederate ancestors...or Union if thats all you have. In my case, I have neither, but have adopted members of the 6th North Carolina State Troops as my substitute, since my ancestors were still in Europe at the time of the American war between the states. We honor their memory with ceremonies and speeches, reenactments and blogs, but sometimes it requires more. Sometimes