Scotti Cohn - Beyond Their Years: Stories of Sixteen Civil War Children

SCOTTI COHNS INTEREST IN THE CIVIL WAR IS PERSONAL. FOR ONE thing her great-great-grandfather, William Calvin Smith, served in the Confederate army. His experiences are preserved in his memoir, The Private in Gray. Family members still talk about Smiths displeasure at the marriage of his granddaughter (Scottis grandmother) to a Yankee from New York.

Scotti was born and raised in Springfield, Illinois, where Abraham Lincoln, chief of all the Yankees, once lived and is now buried. By age ten she had lost track of the number of times she had visited the Great Emancipators home and tomb.

After living for more than twenty years in North Carolina, Scotti moved back to the Land of Lincoln just in time to celebrate the new millennium. After living there for about twelve years, she moved to South Carolina, where she now lives with her husband and four cats. Her interests include jewelry design, music, animals, and travel.

Scotti has written several other books for Globe Pequot, including Libertys Children: Stories of Eleven Revolutionary War Children, More Than Petticoats: Remarkable North Carolina Women, It Happened in North Carolina, It Happened in Chicago, and Chicago Curiosities.

I AM TREMENDOUSLY GRATEFUL TO SILVANA R. SIDDALI OF ILLINOIS State Universitys history department, who reviewed each chapter and provided valuable insight and suggestions. My deep appreciation also goes to my editors, Charlene Patterson and Erin Turner, for their feedback and encouragement. In addition, I thank the following people for their assistance: Byron Abernethy, grandson of Elisha Stockwell Jr.; Paul Begley, South Carolina Department of Archives and History; Hubert Bender, Harrison County Historical Museum, Marshall, Texas; Donaly E. Brice, Texas State University and Archives Commission; Melissa Bush, University of Georgia; Robin Copp, University of South Carolina; Dick Dobbins, Historical Data Systems; Armond Fields, author of Eddie Foy: A Biography of the Early Popular Stage Comedian; Peggy Fox, Confederate Research Center, Hillsboro, Texas; Eddie Foy III; Jeff Giambrone, Vicksburg-Warren County Historical Society Museum; Beth Howse, Fisk University Library; Diane B. Jacob, Virginia Military Academy; Max S. Lale, author of The Boy-Bugler of the Third Texas Cavalry: The A. B. Blocker Narrative; Lorraine M. Lentach, Palm Beach County Genealogical Society; Carolyn Shaw McMillan, descendant of Emma LeConte Furman; Ashleigh Moody, Historic Petersburg Foundation; Darlene Mott, Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center; John W. ONeal II, descendant of Rose ONeal Greenhow; Lyla Stockwell Ragar, granddaughter of Elisha Stockwell Jr.; Diana Reep, author of Margaret Deland; Harold Scott, editor of The Civil War Memoirs of Little Red Cap; Andrew Ward, author of Dark Midnight When I Rise.

General References

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Anne Augusta Banister

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Albert Butler Blocker

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William H. S. Burgwyn

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Maggie Campbell

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John Henry Crowder

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Edwin Fitzgerald (Foy)

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Jesse Root Grant

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Grant, Julia Dent. The Personal Memoirs of Julia Dent Grant