3rd. March 2006

Dear Jim,

Thank you very much for your inquiry, and please know that your efforts in this very worthy research project are greatly appreciated. If there is anyway that we can help, we most certainly will.

Carl Jones

2nd Lt. Commander

Fighting Joe Wheeler Camp 1372

Sons of Confederate Veterans

3rd. March 2006

Jim,

Thank you for the wonderful work you are doing. Your web site is really superb!

Deo Vindice,

David Dorsey
Webmaster
SCV Robert E. Lee Camp #16
Opelika/Auburn, Alabama

8th. March 2006

Seeking information on Tasmanian connections to the CW.   Also looking to locate old friend, Reg Watson.
Thanks,
Ronald Hill, Littleton, Colorado

March 4th. 2006

Great site, found it through Aust Family Tree magazine. Also found reference to my grandparents John & Catherine O'DONNELL by Samuel Sherwood BISSELL, retired Navy Officer, who boarded with them & died/buried Mt. Morgan, Qld. Thrilled to get this piece of info.

Joan Baker

25th. February, 2006

Hi Jim and Steph,
Like to visit from time to time to see what's happening locally. A very exciting website. I am still working on James Latimer and have developed the story considerably. Once finished you are most welcome to post the story if you think appropriate. (I looked to see if you had put up the picture I sent of Latimer's Crossing, hope you got it. I have completed a story on African Confedrerate Americans and this will be presented at the next ACWRT meeting. Keep up the grand work.

Robert E Taylor QSM

31st.December 2005

I by chance found your wonderful website, the most exciting part is that I found my great great grandfather - Denis Sullivan - who is buried at Eganstown in Victoria. I have a button from his uniform also and a picture of the old chap. I thank you again for the priceless information

Kindest Regards

John Morris

Dear Compatriot Gray,

Thank you for letting me know about your great website.  I'm sure your ancestors are proud of you.  We, in Kingsport, TN, sure are.  Please, keep up the outstanding work.  I'll share this site with some other compatriots.
Deo Vindice
Your Humble Servant,
Christopher Cummins

Hello James
I've just been reading in our local paper The Crediton Courier of your plea for information re one James Burridge of Crediton.   I've also visited your website and am very impressed with both the site and your aims. I shall certainly keep you "on my favourites". As an unpaid hobby I act as the OPC (online parish clerk) for a few parishes in the locality, doing genealogical look ups in the various records I have at my disposal for people whose ancestors lived in the area.   Unfortunately my Crediton records for mid 19thcentury are somewhat limited. However it would appear that James was the youngest of at least eight children baptised at Crediton to John and Mary Ann Burridge, an agricultural worker, between 1828 and 1847. John born 1801 had married Mary Ann Mogridge born 1806 at Crediton on August 14 1827. This is a curious fact as I note in your communication to the Courier that James married Eliza Mogridge in 1874. Could this have been a cousin I wonder. In the 1851 census, when the Burridges  were still living in the same house at the eastern end of Crediton as they  probably were when they married, five children were still at home. Emma 20, John 15, Mary Ann 12, George 6, and James 3. Ellen 19, was a weaver and  lodging in a nearby village.   George Henry, who would have been 17, died as an infant. Of William the eldest son born 1828, I can find no trace "dead or alive"!. This then is the sum total of my knowledge of James and his immediate family.   I have no marriage or burial records of Crediton beyond 1850 but as far
as I can see none of the family feature anywhere in the 1861 census or beyond, although there is an English born George Burridge of the correct age listed in the 1880 US census in Minnesota. Of course the girls would probably have married and changed their  name. Do you happen to know how many of the family left England? I will check the Crediton registers when next I visit the Devon Record Office for deaths and marriages. I would really like to find out more about this lad who was born just 4 miles "down the road",fought in the American Civil War, and ended up living in Australia. What a fascinating story, if it's not asking to much please let me know what details you have of this young man and if there is any other way I can help.
Best wishes in your very worthwhile project
Regards

Neville Enderson

Edgar Crook
Librarian
Digital Archiving Section
National Library of Australia

Hello Jim,

Thankyou for you email, I have gone to your site and think it is great. Well done.   I went to Duncan McEachren, Hotspur, and will have a look in the museum and see what we have on him.

Once again, well done and keep up the great work.

Kind Regards

Jan Lier

Casterton and District Historical Society

September 16th. 2005

Hi,
When the New Zealand veterans have been entered into your system can you send copies to us at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Thanks & Regards
Diane Gordon
Reference Librarian
The Museum Library / Te Pātaka Mātāpuna
Auckland War Memorial Museum / Tamaki Paenga Hira Private Bag 92018 Auckland New Zealand

September 30th. 2005

Excellent website!  Thank you for remembering our ancestors and the noble cause for which they stood.   I'm sure your ancestors are proud of you.   We, in Kingsport, TN, sure are.  Please, keep up the
outstanding work.  I'll share this site with some other compatriots.
Deo Vindice
C.J.M. Cummins, Commander, Colonel John Singleton Mosby Camp 1409, Sons of Confederate Veterans

August 25th. 2005

Superior website! Very appealing.

Dory

Magnolia, Illinois.

August 24th. 2005

Well done!  Congratulations -  interesting site.

R. Olive

August 25th. 2005

Formed '41st Ga. Regt. Co. "B" Kennesaw Volunteer Infantry JUNE 1961. It was originally activated in Kennesaw (BIG SHANTY) Ga. in MAY 1861!!  We've taken part in about 450 "MOCK BATTLES" from Texas, to Gettysburg and Wisconsin to Florida and ALL places in between! The "41st Georgia has BEEN THERE"!!   You have a GREAT WEBSITE and we, here in the STATES truly enjoy it 'with "Y'all"!
Sgt/Maj. Robert E. Lee Gray

August 25th. 2005

I think it's great that your doing this.  My wife was born and raised in South Carolina, I am from New York and NJ.  We live now outside of Chicago with our two young daughters.   I'll check the website in a day or so, hope all goes well!

Regards,

Kevin Alcott

August 23rd. 2005

Never knew the veterans made it that far.
Cheers
Tony Clarey

July 17th. 2005

Mr. Gray:
I will be happy to put something together on Yankee Ned. I don't recall running into relatives of John S. Mosby, but there may be some around. He has a highway named after him in this county. A lady who worked with me for 20 years before she died had an ancester, Bushrod Skillman, who reportedly rode with Mosby for a while. I had helped her with some family research, but not directed as Mosby.
I am from Texas. My great-grandfather also served in the CSA. His grandfather came to the US before the Revolutionary War from Scotland, and served with Americans in North Carolina. Also, some of my family from Scotland went to Austrailia,  and a few are traced in a family book, "The Geddies and McPhails" or some such title. It is also on the Internet.
So, small world, in a way.
I will run something and try to get a response. Our paper goes to about 60,000 homes.
John Geddie
Loudoun Easterner
Ashburn, Va.

July 15th. 2005

Absolutely great site, perhaps you might think about searching for any veterans buried in the United Kingdom.

Bakoi Bon

bakoibon@yahoo.co.uk

July 15th. 2005

Jim. Congrates on the new web site I will look forward with interest on updates etc.I hope to keep you informed on any information from the Far South Coast of N.S.W.

Rod Shanahan

July 6th. 2005

It’s a helpful site – I’m going to forward the url to Dean DeBolt, the head of our Special Collections, so he will know about it.  You’ve done a lot of work documenting the lives of the veterans and their lives in Australia.  I personally had no idea that ANY veterans came from Australia, it’s interesting to learn about it. 

For American ands non-Australian researchers in particular I think it would be great to be able to search by country or US state / place of origin or residence of each person (in our case, which veterans may have lived in Florida).  Perhaps you could consider making that a searchable field in the future.  There’s a strong interest in family history and genealogy in the US, besides the historical significance of the information, and you would doubtless get a lot of traffic from that source.  Genealogical and other historical websites would certainly want to add links. 

Besides that I have to comment on your use of the apostrophe:  the title of the site should be Australia’s Civil War Veterans (NOT Veteran’s).  In addition you should delete the apostrophes in your pull down menu links – Veterans by State, Researchers, Veterans under Miscellaneous, etc. – none of these words should have apostrophes.  The correct usage is as a possessive, such as “Australia’s,” which is indeed correct.  It’s a universal common error to put an apostrophe in a plural word like veterans, especially in the US!  Excuse the quibbling.