CO D 2 INF REGT MSG CSA
Resident of Pike Twp., Stoddard Co., MO
Died of Illness at Bloomfield MO
Son of Thomas McKinney
Has a half brother Thomas McKinney who also has a memorial stone (row 1 stone 38)
"Romantic in their attachmant to the South, tinged somewhat with the fatalism of a military dreamer, they took no more heed of their life than of the wind which blew out the long locks of their hair--no more thought of the future than if God were liberty and death but a going to God. As soldiers under fire, their conscience told them that it was their duty to die at any time, AND THEY DID!" ----- Author Unknown
CO D 2 INF REGT MSG CSA
Resident of Pike Twp., Stoddard Co., MO
Died of Illness at Bloomfield MO
Son of Thomas McKinney
Has a half brother Thomas McKinney who also has a memorial stone (row 1 stone 38)
"Romantic in their attachmant to the South, tinged somewhat with the fatalism of a military dreamer, they took no more heed of their life than of the wind which blew out the long locks of their hair--no more thought of the future than if God were liberty and death but a going to God. As soldiers under fire, their conscience told them that it was their duty to die at any time, AND THEY DID!" ----- Author Unknown
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