High hopes for this one.
Camp #2 is put off do to crops coming on. Still think it could pay off but we need to check different locations on the farm to pinpoint what we are looking for.
Just got permission on camp #3. Everything matches what the diary says. Distance from towns mentioned is correct and the old plat map matches owner's name to the camp name. Also the ground and water source seem picture perfect. Now here's the interesting part. The owner did not know any history on a camp but said his father had told him there was a skirmish back in the civil war days across the road from the piece we think was the camp. He showed me right where this supposedly occurred and said he owned that property too and we can check it out.
Hearing of a possible skirmish right across from a site we have researched to be a camp has got to indicate we are in the right place. Our diary makes no mention of a skirmish so we believe it happened sometime before our diary writers arrived. Our writers were Calvary and they said there was 2 companies of Infantry already camped there when they arrived August 27, 1861. They mentioned that they were sworn to 6 months of service at this camp.
We hope this was a recruiting area that had been around awhile.
We will be swinging coils all weekend to see what shows up.
Camp #2 is put off do to crops coming on. Still think it could pay off but we need to check different locations on the farm to pinpoint what we are looking for.
Just got permission on camp #3. Everything matches what the diary says. Distance from towns mentioned is correct and the old plat map matches owner's name to the camp name. Also the ground and water source seem picture perfect. Now here's the interesting part. The owner did not know any history on a camp but said his father had told him there was a skirmish back in the civil war days across the road from the piece we think was the camp. He showed me right where this supposedly occurred and said he owned that property too and we can check it out.
Hearing of a possible skirmish right across from a site we have researched to be a camp has got to indicate we are in the right place. Our diary makes no mention of a skirmish so we believe it happened sometime before our diary writers arrived. Our writers were Calvary and they said there was 2 companies of Infantry already camped there when they arrived August 27, 1861. They mentioned that they were sworn to 6 months of service at this camp.
We hope this was a recruiting area that had been around awhile.
We will be swinging coils all weekend to see what shows up.
