Looking for assistance with 2nd Great Grandfathers Profile bio (US Civil War Veteran) [closed]

Question

I have copies of information Muster roll, letter of service with dates and areas he served. I am not a writer and can not do justice to his profile. Looking for a kind soul to assist specifically in the Civil war portion of the BIO. I can send you copies or invite you to site where information is stored.

Comments

Ok; I am on this. Look for a draft towards the end of the week.

Answer 1

No hard promises, but I am happy to take a look.  I have worked on a few Civil War veterans' data (not their profiles). Send me the material and if it looks too hard I will send it back with regrets.

Comments

Thanks, since I can;t seem to send attachments may be best to go to https://www.rootsfinder.com/tree/8039/people/534-DLTD-4RS7. It is under the undated section marked as Military. Let me know if  you can not access the record. We may need to do a pm.

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I have found the material and commend you on your research.  I could write a paragraph or two on James Wilson's service.  Is that what you are looking for?

The only things I noticed on a quick scan were: (1) He enlisted (with many others) after Lincoln's call in the Spring of 1862 for volunteers to serve three years; and (2) James Wilson served in at least two major battles, including Gettysburg.  He was lucky to come out of the Civil War alive. His wound probably was fairly minor or he would have been transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps.

I suggest that were use my email address to communicate:

dmcnicol15@outlook.com

Answer 2

If y'all don't object, I'd like to throw in on the bio improvement. On a quick search, I found his death certificate.

Comments

Don't mind at all, be sure to put your name under the acknowledgment section at the bottom, There is a section for his death and interment. I have the GAR Marker request which a H Ulhrey requested for in 1934. I believe I have his DC sourced it is tagged as DC for any Future ref points

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I just tweaked and listed the source and gave an inline citation. I've moved up and around in your tree, tweaked a little formatting and rescued Mahala from being an orphan profile. I can turn the profile over to you whenever you wish. Gave her a quick source and will go back and fill in children after I do some yardwork!

Answer 3

Although I have finished a first draft of the text, I need a few more days on this task because I signed up for the Connect-a-Thon which begins tomorrow.  I should have it done by the middle of next week.

Comments

No Problems, it is a holiday weekend for a lot of people as well

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I am in the editing/fact checking stage.

Any thoughts about how I should transfer the material to you? I am a bit reluctant to insert it myself into the profile you have for James M. Wilson, and I could understand if you were also, as I might do damage to parts of the profile I do not understand.

Perhaps one of us should create a Profile for a James N. Wilson.  I could place the material there and you could merge it into the profile for James M. Wilson.

Please let me know.

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You can insert under the research section if  you like or under the US Civil War section, I am not to worried about any issues with the profile, I can always fix those if needed.

Or if  you prefer make a new heading and place under that and I will move to the Civil war section.

Your assistance is appreciated more than you know

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I have placed the material under Civil War on James M. Wilson's profile.  This is yours now.  I fully understand that you may wish to make changes.

Two things. 1st, I am a lousy proof reader (although Windows helps.) 2nd, I've tried to be consistent in my formatting of references, but I do not claim that I followed the current edition of the University of Chicago Style Guide.

I learned a great deal from this project. For the first time I believe that I have a sense of what Lee was up to in his strategic decisions, and understand why experts say that Lee was a great tactician but not a great strategist.  That may be a little unfair to Lee.  He understood that the North had the industrial capacity and the manpower to crush the South, and, perhaps sometimes by a close margin, the will. And I believe Lee valued human life.  He had to find a strategy that had a chance of victory (a stalemate would have been good enough) commensurate with the amount of blood that would be shed. There wasn't one.

DLM

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I will review more fully a little later, but WOW just WOW amazing job. You sir deserve high Honor for your work on this.

I will look into the categorization of the Sticker placed and try to find which it should be I think it is just 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry numbered 161st of the Pennsylvania Line, according to the book I have.

I sir am in your debt, so if I can help you in any way with research or other genealogical pursuit, please reach out and let me know.

R Robinson