Excerpts from a letter written by Capt. Henry L. McCalla of the 31st regiment Indiana Volunteers, dated Apr 8, 1862, Pittsburgh, TN. ".....an awful battle has been fought, commencing on Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m., lasting through the night and continued again on Monday. Grimes and I are safe (Grimes was Major Silas E. Grimes, husband of Susan Gaither). The company behaved nobly. The 31st will now get its due meed of praise, I think....seven wounded, three of them severely......Joseph Gaither in the face, the ball entering the bridge of the nose and coming out underr the ear, cutting the tip of the ear....Grimes was scratched in the knee...We buried our old companions with honors of war, and marked their graves with neat head-boards. The above is from "Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, IN".
Note: Joseph lost an eye.
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Two of Joseph's children were among the students hurt in the Bartlett schoolhouse disaster at La Center on 9 Jan 1880. An article in the Vancouver "Independent" of 12 Jan 1880 named only one of the children, Clara Gaither. A tree three feet in diameter fell on the school, which contained 24 people. It took the lives of Alexander and Olive Bartlett and injured all but one of the other students. Clara was seven years old at the time. She suffered scarring of the face and the loss of a tooth. Joseph Gaither may have been related to Otis Harrell, also injured in the incident. Both were born in Clear Creek Township, Monroe Co IN.
Note: Joseph lost an eye.
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Two of Joseph's children were among the students hurt in the Bartlett schoolhouse disaster at La Center on 9 Jan 1880. An article in the Vancouver "Independent" of 12 Jan 1880 named only one of the children, Clara Gaither. A tree three feet in diameter fell on the school, which contained 24 people. It took the lives of Alexander and Olive Bartlett and injured all but one of the other students. Clara was seven years old at the time. She suffered scarring of the face and the loss of a tooth. Joseph Gaither may have been related to Otis Harrell, also injured in the incident. Both were born in Clear Creek Township, Monroe Co IN.
Excerpts from a letter written by Capt. Henry L. McCalla of the 31st regiment Indiana Volunteers, dated Apr 8, 1862, Pittsburgh, TN. ".....an awful battle has been fought, commencing on Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m., lasting through the night and continued again on Monday. Grimes and I are safe (Grimes was Major Silas E. Grimes, husband of Susan Gaither). The company behaved nobly. The 31st will now get its due meed of praise, I think....seven wounded, three of them severely......Joseph Gaither in the face, the ball entering the bridge of the nose and coming out underr the ear, cutting the tip of the ear....Grimes was scratched in the knee...We buried our old companions with honors of war, and marked their graves with neat head-boards. The above is from "Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, IN".
Note: Joseph lost an eye.
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Two of Joseph's children were among the students hurt in the Bartlett schoolhouse disaster at La Center on 9 Jan 1880. An article in the Vancouver "Independent" of 12 Jan 1880 named only one of the children, Clara Gaither. A tree three feet in diameter fell on the school, which contained 24 people. It took the lives of Alexander and Olive Bartlett and injured all but one of the other students. Clara was seven years old at the time. She suffered scarring of the face and the loss of a tooth. Joseph Gaither may have been related to Otis Harrell, also injured in the incident. Both were born in Clear Creek Township, Monroe Co IN.
Note: Joseph lost an eye.
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Two of Joseph's children were among the students hurt in the Bartlett schoolhouse disaster at La Center on 9 Jan 1880. An article in the Vancouver "Independent" of 12 Jan 1880 named only one of the children, Clara Gaither. A tree three feet in diameter fell on the school, which contained 24 people. It took the lives of Alexander and Olive Bartlett and injured all but one of the other students. Clara was seven years old at the time. She suffered scarring of the face and the loss of a tooth. Joseph Gaither may have been related to Otis Harrell, also injured in the incident. Both were born in Clear Creek Township, Monroe Co IN.
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