My Trails into the Past

This is my third year working on this year-long prompt, hosted by Amy Johnson Crow. I will write each week in one of my two blogs, either Mam-ma’s Southern Family or at My Trails into the Past. I have enjoyed writing about my children’s ancestors in new and exciting ways. A newspaper article in the Athens Messenger, dated 8 October 1863 reported a list of casualties and those soldiers who were wounded. My husband’s great-grandfather, Amos Gorrell, was listed in this one article. The newspaper article was specific about the 18 th Ohio volunteer infantry. Wounded in Company A were Captain P.G. Brown, Sergeant W.S. Brown, Sergeant D.F. Shotts, Corporal A.S. Toops, Corporal Robert Irvin, Corporal H. Hays, Private Amos Gordell [should be Gorrell], Private Thomas Harmon, Private BF Maddox, and Private H.V. Rittenhouse. All were injured severely except Rittenhouse. [1] Amos Gorrell entered the war on the 1 August 1861 with Company A of the 18 th Ohio Infantry Regiment. He...