C 17 TEX CAV
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Moses' parents, Garrett David and Sarah Psalms (McSpadden) Buckner, were united in holy marriage in 1826 at Sweetwater, Monroe County, Tennessee. They were blessed with many children: Moses McSpadden, Pamela Adeline, Joanna Catherine (known as Cassie), James Green Clay, China Elizabeth, Robert Love, Mary Antoinette, and Sarah Caroline.
On December 2, 1852, Moses married the girl next door, Emeline Jane Risinger, at the home of his future in-laws in Rusk County, Texas. Two years after they were wed, Moses' sister, "Cassie", married Emeline's brother and boy next door, Jackson.
Moses and Emeline were blessed with six children: Nancy Catherine, Franklin Bowden, Mary Ann (known as Mollie), Sarah Theodosia, Robert Garrett, and Mosa Marah (known as Mosey).
Two of his daughters, "Mollie" and "Mosey", married brothers, William Reddick Scogin and John Albert Scogin.
Nearly a year after the war broke out, and while still actively growing his family, Moses enlisted into the Confederate Army. He mustered in to Company C, Texas 17th Cavalry Regiment for the Confederate States of America on March 15, 1862. Being in the Cavalry (meaning you had and brought your own horse) meant the pay would be higher than simply enlisting into an infantry unit.
Moses' little brother, James, enlisted at Woodville with some of the Risinger boys and their cousin, James Smelley - Company G, Texas 24th Cavalry Regiment.
During the war, mail was slow but steady. On December 31, 1862, Moses wrote a letter back to Emeline from Fort Hindman, Arkansas. He opens his letter with, "My dear wife". The reader is taken back in time, as a loving man, husband and father articulates his deep concerns for his family and friends.
In his letter, he expresses his concern for their daughter Theo's health, having learned of her getting the "chills" in a recent letter from his mother. He mentions their son, Frank, and his wish to see their newest addition, "that little blackhaired girl, but for the present I will just have to take it out in wishing."
He openly discussed witnessing the arrival of a captured federal cargo transport, how it was captured on the Mississippi River on the way to Vicksburg, and that the cargo of munitions of war was valued at an estimated $250,000, along with a "good deal of flour and salt, and some coffee".
He spoke about how the mail was also captured on the boat, how it was turned over to General Churchill, examined, taking what money was in them and then tossed into the yard for the soldiers to read. "One man in our company got 13 of them. I have got to read several of them and some of them are tolerably spicy. Some are young ladies writing to their husbands."
The reader can feel the weight of the financial woes due to him not yet getting paid during the past year since enlistment as he discusses and reassures his wife of when and how. "We have not drawn any money yet and I don't know when we will. We are not certain yet whether we will draw cavalry pay as infantry, but I believe we will draw cavalry pay if we draw at all."
At times during his writing, he is interrupted and even mentions needing to go to carry in wood. He discusses his wife's brothers, "Jimmy and the boys are tolerably well. Landon is complaining a little." He even asks her to pass a message to "Uncle Charlie that Bob is well". By the close of the letter, he bids her farewell by signing it, "Your husband until death".
On that fateful day, January 11, 1863, a week and a half after posting that letter to Emeline, PVT Moses McSpadden Buckner, his little brother, James, and all of his brothers-in-law and cousins, were captured and taken prisoner while stationed at Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post. The entire family arrived at the Prisoner of War camp on January 31, 1863 at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois. Shortly after arriving, on March 1, 1863, Moses' brother, James, died at twenty-five years of age. Eleven days later, on March 12, 1863, thirty-four-year-old Moses died of Small Pox.
ღ ღ ღ ღ
When Moses enlisted in the Civil War at Tyler, his sweet mother, Sarah, presented him with a small Bible. Moses' cousin, T. S. McSpadden, carried the Bible home to his precious widow, Emeline. Safely tucked inside the bible was her last letter to him, telling of the birth of a "little black-haired girl". Emeline had even dipped the baby's foot in ink and marked a print on the letter for him.
ღ ღ ღ ღ
Moses was originally buried at Camp Butler in a mass grave, then reburied at North Side's old City Cemetery (what is now Lincoln Park). Upon the closing of City Cemetery, the fallen solider was moved to a newly opened cemetery, Oak Woods. The federal government purchased a section of Oak Woods in 1867 to accomodate the 4200 (to possibly 6000) known casualties of the notorious POW camp, Camp Douglas.
Moses' little brother, James, and two cousins, Willis and Jordan Risinger, all of whom were in Co G, 24 TX Cavalry, were buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery (est: 1862).
At the end of the war, Emeline's two surviving brothers, Landon and Mack (McCary), who were also in Co G, 24 TX Cavalry, were moved from Camp Douglas to CSA General Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, and died there. Their burial places remain unknown.
Where is Emeline's brother, David Terry Risinger?
In a lasting tribute, Moses' little sister, Cassie, named her youngest son, who never saw his father, Jackson Landon Moses McCary Risinger after four who had fallen.
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Namesaking and Family Line
Moses McSpadden Buckner was named after his maternal grandfather, Moses Stuart McSpadden (1771 – 1847), who in turn was named after his paternal uncle and American Revolutionary War veteran, Moses McSpadden (1754 – 1827). This McSpadden line comes from the original Scottish Presbyterians who immigrated into Northern Ireland and helped with the planting of the infamous Ulster, Antrim. After years of intolerance for the Presbyterian (which at the time translated into Scots), three McSpadden brothers were part of the 15,000 Scots-Irish from Ulster, Antrim, who flocked to America as the original colonists around 1726 onward. This McSpadden line became part of the large Scots-Irish settlement of Northeast Virginia.
Moses' great-grandfather and three of his brothers (great-grand uncles), including several members from his 2nd great-grandmother's immediate Edmiston line, all from the Scots-Irish settlement, served and died in the French and Indian War, and Revolutionary War. These men are some of the famous heroes, known as the "Overmountian Men", of the Battle of King's Mountain of 7 Oct 1780, including Colonel William Edmiston, second in command. Interestingly, Davy Crocket's father, John Crocket, was also at the Battle of King's Mountain.
"If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scots-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger."
George Washington, at Valley Forge.
"Jefferson is often called the father of modern American democracy; in a certain sense the Shenandoah Valley and adjacent Appalachian regions may be called its cradle."
John Fiske, 1897
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Arkansas Post
Fort Hindman
Civil War Arkansas
American Civil War
January 9-11, 1863
From Fort Hindman, at Arkansas Post, Confederates had been disrupting Union shipping on the Mississippi River. Major General John McClernand, therefore, undertook a combined force movement on Arkansas Post to capture it.
Union boats began landing troops near Arkansas Post in the evening of January 9, 1863. The troops started up river towards Fort Hindman.
Major General William T. Sherman's corps overran Rebel trenches, and the enemy retreated to the protection of the fort and adjacent rifle-pits.
Rear Admiral David Porter, on the 10th, moved his fleet towards Fort Hindman and bombarded it withdrawing at dusk.
Union artillery fired on the fort from artillery positions across the river on the 11th, and the infantry moved into position for an attack.
Union ironclads commenced shelling the fort and Porter's fleet passed it to cutoff any retreat.
As a result of this envelopment, and the attack by McClernand's troops, the Confederate command surrendered in the afternoon.
Although Union losses were high and the victory did not contribute to the capture of Vicksburg, it did eliminate one more impediment to Union shipping on the Mississippi.
Result(s): Union victory
Location: Arkansas County
Campaign: Operations against Vicksburg (1862-1863)
Date(s): January 9-11, 1863
Principal Commanders: Rear Adm. David D. Porter and Major General John A. McClernand [US]; Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill [CS]
Forces Engaged: Army of the Mississippi [US]; Fort Hindman Garrison [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 6,547 total (US 1,047; CS 5,500)
Moses McSpadden Buckner is:
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Recorded in "Rusk County History" by Rusk County Historical Commission, Rusk County, Texas; 1982, pp. 150-151, 365.
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Recorded in "Wright and Susan Scogin: Their Descendants, and Related Families" by Grover C. Andersen; 1983, pg. 215-218, pg. 265.
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Recorded in "Rusk County Rebs" by Kathryn Hooper Davis, Carolyn Reeves Ericson; 1998, pg. 71.
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Moses' parents, Garrett David and Sarah Psalms (McSpadden) Buckner, were united in holy marriage in 1826 at Sweetwater, Monroe County, Tennessee. They were blessed with many children: Moses McSpadden, Pamela Adeline, Joanna Catherine (known as Cassie), James Green Clay, China Elizabeth, Robert Love, Mary Antoinette, and Sarah Caroline.
On December 2, 1852, Moses married the girl next door, Emeline Jane Risinger, at the home of his future in-laws in Rusk County, Texas. Two years after they were wed, Moses' sister, "Cassie", married Emeline's brother and boy next door, Jackson.
Moses and Emeline were blessed with six children: Nancy Catherine, Franklin Bowden, Mary Ann (known as Mollie), Sarah Theodosia, Robert Garrett, and Mosa Marah (known as Mosey).
Two of his daughters, "Mollie" and "Mosey", married brothers, William Reddick Scogin and John Albert Scogin.
Nearly a year after the war broke out, and while still actively growing his family, Moses enlisted into the Confederate Army. He mustered in to Company C, Texas 17th Cavalry Regiment for the Confederate States of America on March 15, 1862. Being in the Cavalry (meaning you had and brought your own horse) meant the pay would be higher than simply enlisting into an infantry unit.
Moses' little brother, James, enlisted at Woodville with some of the Risinger boys and their cousin, James Smelley - Company G, Texas 24th Cavalry Regiment.
During the war, mail was slow but steady. On December 31, 1862, Moses wrote a letter back to Emeline from Fort Hindman, Arkansas. He opens his letter with, "My dear wife". The reader is taken back in time, as a loving man, husband and father articulates his deep concerns for his family and friends.
In his letter, he expresses his concern for their daughter Theo's health, having learned of her getting the "chills" in a recent letter from his mother. He mentions their son, Frank, and his wish to see their newest addition, "that little blackhaired girl, but for the present I will just have to take it out in wishing."
He openly discussed witnessing the arrival of a captured federal cargo transport, how it was captured on the Mississippi River on the way to Vicksburg, and that the cargo of munitions of war was valued at an estimated $250,000, along with a "good deal of flour and salt, and some coffee".
He spoke about how the mail was also captured on the boat, how it was turned over to General Churchill, examined, taking what money was in them and then tossed into the yard for the soldiers to read. "One man in our company got 13 of them. I have got to read several of them and some of them are tolerably spicy. Some are young ladies writing to their husbands."
The reader can feel the weight of the financial woes due to him not yet getting paid during the past year since enlistment as he discusses and reassures his wife of when and how. "We have not drawn any money yet and I don't know when we will. We are not certain yet whether we will draw cavalry pay as infantry, but I believe we will draw cavalry pay if we draw at all."
At times during his writing, he is interrupted and even mentions needing to go to carry in wood. He discusses his wife's brothers, "Jimmy and the boys are tolerably well. Landon is complaining a little." He even asks her to pass a message to "Uncle Charlie that Bob is well". By the close of the letter, he bids her farewell by signing it, "Your husband until death".
On that fateful day, January 11, 1863, a week and a half after posting that letter to Emeline, PVT Moses McSpadden Buckner, his little brother, James, and all of his brothers-in-law and cousins, were captured and taken prisoner while stationed at Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post. The entire family arrived at the Prisoner of War camp on January 31, 1863 at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois. Shortly after arriving, on March 1, 1863, Moses' brother, James, died at twenty-five years of age. Eleven days later, on March 12, 1863, thirty-four-year-old Moses died of Small Pox.
ღ ღ ღ ღ
When Moses enlisted in the Civil War at Tyler, his sweet mother, Sarah, presented him with a small Bible. Moses' cousin, T. S. McSpadden, carried the Bible home to his precious widow, Emeline. Safely tucked inside the bible was her last letter to him, telling of the birth of a "little black-haired girl". Emeline had even dipped the baby's foot in ink and marked a print on the letter for him.
ღ ღ ღ ღ
Moses was originally buried at Camp Butler in a mass grave, then reburied at North Side's old City Cemetery (what is now Lincoln Park). Upon the closing of City Cemetery, the fallen solider was moved to a newly opened cemetery, Oak Woods. The federal government purchased a section of Oak Woods in 1867 to accomodate the 4200 (to possibly 6000) known casualties of the notorious POW camp, Camp Douglas.
Moses' little brother, James, and two cousins, Willis and Jordan Risinger, all of whom were in Co G, 24 TX Cavalry, were buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery (est: 1862).
At the end of the war, Emeline's two surviving brothers, Landon and Mack (McCary), who were also in Co G, 24 TX Cavalry, were moved from Camp Douglas to CSA General Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, and died there. Their burial places remain unknown.
Where is Emeline's brother, David Terry Risinger?
In a lasting tribute, Moses' little sister, Cassie, named her youngest son, who never saw his father, Jackson Landon Moses McCary Risinger after four who had fallen.
==============
Namesaking and Family Line
Moses McSpadden Buckner was named after his maternal grandfather, Moses Stuart McSpadden (1771 – 1847), who in turn was named after his paternal uncle and American Revolutionary War veteran, Moses McSpadden (1754 – 1827). This McSpadden line comes from the original Scottish Presbyterians who immigrated into Northern Ireland and helped with the planting of the infamous Ulster, Antrim. After years of intolerance for the Presbyterian (which at the time translated into Scots), three McSpadden brothers were part of the 15,000 Scots-Irish from Ulster, Antrim, who flocked to America as the original colonists around 1726 onward. This McSpadden line became part of the large Scots-Irish settlement of Northeast Virginia.
Moses' great-grandfather and three of his brothers (great-grand uncles), including several members from his 2nd great-grandmother's immediate Edmiston line, all from the Scots-Irish settlement, served and died in the French and Indian War, and Revolutionary War. These men are some of the famous heroes, known as the "Overmountian Men", of the Battle of King's Mountain of 7 Oct 1780, including Colonel William Edmiston, second in command. Interestingly, Davy Crocket's father, John Crocket, was also at the Battle of King's Mountain.
"If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scots-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger."
George Washington, at Valley Forge.
"Jefferson is often called the father of modern American democracy; in a certain sense the Shenandoah Valley and adjacent Appalachian regions may be called its cradle."
John Fiske, 1897
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Arkansas Post
Fort Hindman
Civil War Arkansas
American Civil War
January 9-11, 1863
From Fort Hindman, at Arkansas Post, Confederates had been disrupting Union shipping on the Mississippi River. Major General John McClernand, therefore, undertook a combined force movement on Arkansas Post to capture it.
Union boats began landing troops near Arkansas Post in the evening of January 9, 1863. The troops started up river towards Fort Hindman.
Major General William T. Sherman's corps overran Rebel trenches, and the enemy retreated to the protection of the fort and adjacent rifle-pits.
Rear Admiral David Porter, on the 10th, moved his fleet towards Fort Hindman and bombarded it withdrawing at dusk.
Union artillery fired on the fort from artillery positions across the river on the 11th, and the infantry moved into position for an attack.
Union ironclads commenced shelling the fort and Porter's fleet passed it to cutoff any retreat.
As a result of this envelopment, and the attack by McClernand's troops, the Confederate command surrendered in the afternoon.
Although Union losses were high and the victory did not contribute to the capture of Vicksburg, it did eliminate one more impediment to Union shipping on the Mississippi.
Result(s): Union victory
Location: Arkansas County
Campaign: Operations against Vicksburg (1862-1863)
Date(s): January 9-11, 1863
Principal Commanders: Rear Adm. David D. Porter and Major General John A. McClernand [US]; Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill [CS]
Forces Engaged: Army of the Mississippi [US]; Fort Hindman Garrison [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 6,547 total (US 1,047; CS 5,500)
Moses McSpadden Buckner is:
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Recorded in "Rusk County History" by Rusk County Historical Commission, Rusk County, Texas; 1982, pp. 150-151, 365.
===============
Recorded in "Wright and Susan Scogin: Their Descendants, and Related Families" by Grover C. Andersen; 1983, pg. 215-218, pg. 265.
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Recorded in "Rusk County Rebs" by Kathryn Hooper Davis, Carolyn Reeves Ericson; 1998, pg. 71.
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C 17 TEX CAV
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Moses' parents, Garrett David and Sarah Psalms (McSpadden) Buckner, were united in holy marriage in 1826 at Sweetwater, Monroe County, Tennessee. They were blessed with many children: Moses McSpadden, Pamela Adeline, Joanna Catherine (known as Cassie), James Green Clay, China Elizabeth, Robert Love, Mary Antoinette, and Sarah Caroline.
On December 2, 1852, Moses married the girl next door, Emeline Jane Risinger, at the home of his future in-laws in Rusk County, Texas. Two years after they were wed, Moses' sister, "Cassie", married Emeline's brother and boy next door, Jackson.
Moses and Emeline were blessed with six children: Nancy Catherine, Franklin Bowden, Mary Ann (known as Mollie), Sarah Theodosia, Robert Garrett, and Mosa Marah (known as Mosey).
Two of his daughters, "Mollie" and "Mosey", married brothers, William Reddick Scogin and John Albert Scogin.
Nearly a year after the war broke out, and while still actively growing his family, Moses enlisted into the Confederate Army. He mustered in to Company C, Texas 17th Cavalry Regiment for the Confederate States of America on March 15, 1862. Being in the Cavalry (meaning you had and brought your own horse) meant the pay would be higher than simply enlisting into an infantry unit.
Moses' little brother, James, enlisted at Woodville with some of the Risinger boys and their cousin, James Smelley - Company G, Texas 24th Cavalry Regiment.
During the war, mail was slow but steady. On December 31, 1862, Moses wrote a letter back to Emeline from Fort Hindman, Arkansas. He opens his letter with, "My dear wife". The reader is taken back in time, as a loving man, husband and father articulates his deep concerns for his family and friends.
In his letter, he expresses his concern for their daughter Theo's health, having learned of her getting the "chills" in a recent letter from his mother. He mentions their son, Frank, and his wish to see their newest addition, "that little blackhaired girl, but for the present I will just have to take it out in wishing."
He openly discussed witnessing the arrival of a captured federal cargo transport, how it was captured on the Mississippi River on the way to Vicksburg, and that the cargo of munitions of war was valued at an estimated $250,000, along with a "good deal of flour and salt, and some coffee".
He spoke about how the mail was also captured on the boat, how it was turned over to General Churchill, examined, taking what money was in them and then tossed into the yard for the soldiers to read. "One man in our company got 13 of them. I have got to read several of them and some of them are tolerably spicy. Some are young ladies writing to their husbands."
The reader can feel the weight of the financial woes due to him not yet getting paid during the past year since enlistment as he discusses and reassures his wife of when and how. "We have not drawn any money yet and I don't know when we will. We are not certain yet whether we will draw cavalry pay as infantry, but I believe we will draw cavalry pay if we draw at all."
At times during his writing, he is interrupted and even mentions needing to go to carry in wood. He discusses his wife's brothers, "Jimmy and the boys are tolerably well. Landon is complaining a little." He even asks her to pass a message to "Uncle Charlie that Bob is well". By the close of the letter, he bids her farewell by signing it, "Your husband until death".
On that fateful day, January 11, 1863, a week and a half after posting that letter to Emeline, PVT Moses McSpadden Buckner, his little brother, James, and all of his brothers-in-law and cousins, were captured and taken prisoner while stationed at Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post. The entire family arrived at the Prisoner of War camp on January 31, 1863 at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois. Shortly after arriving, on March 1, 1863, Moses' brother, James, died at twenty-five years of age. Eleven days later, on March 12, 1863, thirty-four-year-old Moses died of Small Pox.
ღ ღ ღ ღ
When Moses enlisted in the Civil War at Tyler, his sweet mother, Sarah, presented him with a small Bible. Moses' cousin, T. S. McSpadden, carried the Bible home to his precious widow, Emeline. Safely tucked inside the bible was her last letter to him, telling of the birth of a "little black-haired girl". Emeline had even dipped the baby's foot in ink and marked a print on the letter for him.
ღ ღ ღ ღ
Moses was originally buried at Camp Butler in a mass grave, then reburied at North Side's old City Cemetery (what is now Lincoln Park). Upon the closing of City Cemetery, the fallen solider was moved to a newly opened cemetery, Oak Woods. The federal government purchased a section of Oak Woods in 1867 to accomodate the 4200 (to possibly 6000) known casualties of the notorious POW camp, Camp Douglas.
Moses' little brother, James, and two cousins, Willis and Jordan Risinger, all of whom were in Co G, 24 TX Cavalry, were buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery (est: 1862).
At the end of the war, Emeline's two surviving brothers, Landon and Mack (McCary), who were also in Co G, 24 TX Cavalry, were moved from Camp Douglas to CSA General Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, and died there. Their burial places remain unknown.
Where is Emeline's brother, David Terry Risinger?
In a lasting tribute, Moses' little sister, Cassie, named her youngest son, who never saw his father, Jackson Landon Moses McCary Risinger after four who had fallen.
==============
Namesaking and Family Line
Moses McSpadden Buckner was named after his maternal grandfather, Moses Stuart McSpadden (1771 – 1847), who in turn was named after his paternal uncle and American Revolutionary War veteran, Moses McSpadden (1754 – 1827). This McSpadden line comes from the original Scottish Presbyterians who immigrated into Northern Ireland and helped with the planting of the infamous Ulster, Antrim. After years of intolerance for the Presbyterian (which at the time translated into Scots), three McSpadden brothers were part of the 15,000 Scots-Irish from Ulster, Antrim, who flocked to America as the original colonists around 1726 onward. This McSpadden line became part of the large Scots-Irish settlement of Northeast Virginia.
Moses' great-grandfather and three of his brothers (great-grand uncles), including several members from his 2nd great-grandmother's immediate Edmiston line, all from the Scots-Irish settlement, served and died in the French and Indian War, and Revolutionary War. These men are some of the famous heroes, known as the "Overmountian Men", of the Battle of King's Mountain of 7 Oct 1780, including Colonel William Edmiston, second in command. Interestingly, Davy Crocket's father, John Crocket, was also at the Battle of King's Mountain.
"If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scots-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger."
George Washington, at Valley Forge.
"Jefferson is often called the father of modern American democracy; in a certain sense the Shenandoah Valley and adjacent Appalachian regions may be called its cradle."
John Fiske, 1897
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Arkansas Post
Fort Hindman
Civil War Arkansas
American Civil War
January 9-11, 1863
From Fort Hindman, at Arkansas Post, Confederates had been disrupting Union shipping on the Mississippi River. Major General John McClernand, therefore, undertook a combined force movement on Arkansas Post to capture it.
Union boats began landing troops near Arkansas Post in the evening of January 9, 1863. The troops started up river towards Fort Hindman.
Major General William T. Sherman's corps overran Rebel trenches, and the enemy retreated to the protection of the fort and adjacent rifle-pits.
Rear Admiral David Porter, on the 10th, moved his fleet towards Fort Hindman and bombarded it withdrawing at dusk.
Union artillery fired on the fort from artillery positions across the river on the 11th, and the infantry moved into position for an attack.
Union ironclads commenced shelling the fort and Porter's fleet passed it to cutoff any retreat.
As a result of this envelopment, and the attack by McClernand's troops, the Confederate command surrendered in the afternoon.
Although Union losses were high and the victory did not contribute to the capture of Vicksburg, it did eliminate one more impediment to Union shipping on the Mississippi.
Result(s): Union victory
Location: Arkansas County
Campaign: Operations against Vicksburg (1862-1863)
Date(s): January 9-11, 1863
Principal Commanders: Rear Adm. David D. Porter and Major General John A. McClernand [US]; Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill [CS]
Forces Engaged: Army of the Mississippi [US]; Fort Hindman Garrison [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 6,547 total (US 1,047; CS 5,500)
Moses McSpadden Buckner is:
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Recorded in "Rusk County History" by Rusk County Historical Commission, Rusk County, Texas; 1982, pp. 150-151, 365.
===============
Recorded in "Wright and Susan Scogin: Their Descendants, and Related Families" by Grover C. Andersen; 1983, pg. 215-218, pg. 265.
===============
Recorded in "Rusk County Rebs" by Kathryn Hooper Davis, Carolyn Reeves Ericson; 1998, pg. 71.
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Moses' parents, Garrett David and Sarah Psalms (McSpadden) Buckner, were united in holy marriage in 1826 at Sweetwater, Monroe County, Tennessee. They were blessed with many children: Moses McSpadden, Pamela Adeline, Joanna Catherine (known as Cassie), James Green Clay, China Elizabeth, Robert Love, Mary Antoinette, and Sarah Caroline.
On December 2, 1852, Moses married the girl next door, Emeline Jane Risinger, at the home of his future in-laws in Rusk County, Texas. Two years after they were wed, Moses' sister, "Cassie", married Emeline's brother and boy next door, Jackson.
Moses and Emeline were blessed with six children: Nancy Catherine, Franklin Bowden, Mary Ann (known as Mollie), Sarah Theodosia, Robert Garrett, and Mosa Marah (known as Mosey).
Two of his daughters, "Mollie" and "Mosey", married brothers, William Reddick Scogin and John Albert Scogin.
Nearly a year after the war broke out, and while still actively growing his family, Moses enlisted into the Confederate Army. He mustered in to Company C, Texas 17th Cavalry Regiment for the Confederate States of America on March 15, 1862. Being in the Cavalry (meaning you had and brought your own horse) meant the pay would be higher than simply enlisting into an infantry unit.
Moses' little brother, James, enlisted at Woodville with some of the Risinger boys and their cousin, James Smelley - Company G, Texas 24th Cavalry Regiment.
During the war, mail was slow but steady. On December 31, 1862, Moses wrote a letter back to Emeline from Fort Hindman, Arkansas. He opens his letter with, "My dear wife". The reader is taken back in time, as a loving man, husband and father articulates his deep concerns for his family and friends.
In his letter, he expresses his concern for their daughter Theo's health, having learned of her getting the "chills" in a recent letter from his mother. He mentions their son, Frank, and his wish to see their newest addition, "that little blackhaired girl, but for the present I will just have to take it out in wishing."
He openly discussed witnessing the arrival of a captured federal cargo transport, how it was captured on the Mississippi River on the way to Vicksburg, and that the cargo of munitions of war was valued at an estimated $250,000, along with a "good deal of flour and salt, and some coffee".
He spoke about how the mail was also captured on the boat, how it was turned over to General Churchill, examined, taking what money was in them and then tossed into the yard for the soldiers to read. "One man in our company got 13 of them. I have got to read several of them and some of them are tolerably spicy. Some are young ladies writing to their husbands."
The reader can feel the weight of the financial woes due to him not yet getting paid during the past year since enlistment as he discusses and reassures his wife of when and how. "We have not drawn any money yet and I don't know when we will. We are not certain yet whether we will draw cavalry pay as infantry, but I believe we will draw cavalry pay if we draw at all."
At times during his writing, he is interrupted and even mentions needing to go to carry in wood. He discusses his wife's brothers, "Jimmy and the boys are tolerably well. Landon is complaining a little." He even asks her to pass a message to "Uncle Charlie that Bob is well". By the close of the letter, he bids her farewell by signing it, "Your husband until death".
On that fateful day, January 11, 1863, a week and a half after posting that letter to Emeline, PVT Moses McSpadden Buckner, his little brother, James, and all of his brothers-in-law and cousins, were captured and taken prisoner while stationed at Fort Hindman at Arkansas Post. The entire family arrived at the Prisoner of War camp on January 31, 1863 at Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois. Shortly after arriving, on March 1, 1863, Moses' brother, James, died at twenty-five years of age. Eleven days later, on March 12, 1863, thirty-four-year-old Moses died of Small Pox.
ღ ღ ღ ღ
When Moses enlisted in the Civil War at Tyler, his sweet mother, Sarah, presented him with a small Bible. Moses' cousin, T. S. McSpadden, carried the Bible home to his precious widow, Emeline. Safely tucked inside the bible was her last letter to him, telling of the birth of a "little black-haired girl". Emeline had even dipped the baby's foot in ink and marked a print on the letter for him.
ღ ღ ღ ღ
Moses was originally buried at Camp Butler in a mass grave, then reburied at North Side's old City Cemetery (what is now Lincoln Park). Upon the closing of City Cemetery, the fallen solider was moved to a newly opened cemetery, Oak Woods. The federal government purchased a section of Oak Woods in 1867 to accomodate the 4200 (to possibly 6000) known casualties of the notorious POW camp, Camp Douglas.
Moses' little brother, James, and two cousins, Willis and Jordan Risinger, all of whom were in Co G, 24 TX Cavalry, were buried at Camp Butler National Cemetery (est: 1862).
At the end of the war, Emeline's two surviving brothers, Landon and Mack (McCary), who were also in Co G, 24 TX Cavalry, were moved from Camp Douglas to CSA General Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia, and died there. Their burial places remain unknown.
Where is Emeline's brother, David Terry Risinger?
In a lasting tribute, Moses' little sister, Cassie, named her youngest son, who never saw his father, Jackson Landon Moses McCary Risinger after four who had fallen.
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Namesaking and Family Line
Moses McSpadden Buckner was named after his maternal grandfather, Moses Stuart McSpadden (1771 – 1847), who in turn was named after his paternal uncle and American Revolutionary War veteran, Moses McSpadden (1754 – 1827). This McSpadden line comes from the original Scottish Presbyterians who immigrated into Northern Ireland and helped with the planting of the infamous Ulster, Antrim. After years of intolerance for the Presbyterian (which at the time translated into Scots), three McSpadden brothers were part of the 15,000 Scots-Irish from Ulster, Antrim, who flocked to America as the original colonists around 1726 onward. This McSpadden line became part of the large Scots-Irish settlement of Northeast Virginia.
Moses' great-grandfather and three of his brothers (great-grand uncles), including several members from his 2nd great-grandmother's immediate Edmiston line, all from the Scots-Irish settlement, served and died in the French and Indian War, and Revolutionary War. These men are some of the famous heroes, known as the "Overmountian Men", of the Battle of King's Mountain of 7 Oct 1780, including Colonel William Edmiston, second in command. Interestingly, Davy Crocket's father, John Crocket, was also at the Battle of King's Mountain.
"If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scots-Irish of that region, and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger."
George Washington, at Valley Forge.
"Jefferson is often called the father of modern American democracy; in a certain sense the Shenandoah Valley and adjacent Appalachian regions may be called its cradle."
John Fiske, 1897
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Arkansas Post
Fort Hindman
Civil War Arkansas
American Civil War
January 9-11, 1863
From Fort Hindman, at Arkansas Post, Confederates had been disrupting Union shipping on the Mississippi River. Major General John McClernand, therefore, undertook a combined force movement on Arkansas Post to capture it.
Union boats began landing troops near Arkansas Post in the evening of January 9, 1863. The troops started up river towards Fort Hindman.
Major General William T. Sherman's corps overran Rebel trenches, and the enemy retreated to the protection of the fort and adjacent rifle-pits.
Rear Admiral David Porter, on the 10th, moved his fleet towards Fort Hindman and bombarded it withdrawing at dusk.
Union artillery fired on the fort from artillery positions across the river on the 11th, and the infantry moved into position for an attack.
Union ironclads commenced shelling the fort and Porter's fleet passed it to cutoff any retreat.
As a result of this envelopment, and the attack by McClernand's troops, the Confederate command surrendered in the afternoon.
Although Union losses were high and the victory did not contribute to the capture of Vicksburg, it did eliminate one more impediment to Union shipping on the Mississippi.
Result(s): Union victory
Location: Arkansas County
Campaign: Operations against Vicksburg (1862-1863)
Date(s): January 9-11, 1863
Principal Commanders: Rear Adm. David D. Porter and Major General John A. McClernand [US]; Brigadier General Thomas J. Churchill [CS]
Forces Engaged: Army of the Mississippi [US]; Fort Hindman Garrison [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 6,547 total (US 1,047; CS 5,500)
Moses McSpadden Buckner is:
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Recorded in "Rusk County History" by Rusk County Historical Commission, Rusk County, Texas; 1982, pp. 150-151, 365.
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Recorded in "Wright and Susan Scogin: Their Descendants, and Related Families" by Grover C. Andersen; 1983, pg. 215-218, pg. 265.
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Recorded in "Rusk County Rebs" by Kathryn Hooper Davis, Carolyn Reeves Ericson; 1998, pg. 71.
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Inscription
C 17 TEX. CAV.
Gravesite Details
Confederate Mound
Family Members
Siblings
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