(As with all posts in my Lurkers category, this excerpt contains names of people mentioned in texts that I read. Currently, I am working on “transcribing” my great-grandmother’s travel journals, and this is an excerpt from 1937.)
August 9, 1937 — Speedometer reading – 46999.5
St. Clair County, Michigan
We were up bright and early and ready to leave at 8′o’clock. Pat had told me a couple of weeks earlier that John Robinson had offered to take care of the cow for us and then after a few days he decided the Burse’s might like to take care of her so he asked them and they thought they couldn’t manage it. Then just two or three days before it was time for us to go he said he believed he would ask Fred Burdie as he thought it would be asking too much of John to milk an extra cow in the mornings. Well it was left like that and on Monday morning I went to see if Johnson’s or Robinsons would sell Burses milk for themselves and to feed our cats. Found out that John had been depending on milking her. I came home and told Pat that if he hadn’t had that cow on wheels up and down Griswold Street for the last two weeks we wouldn’t have gotten into such a tangle.
Names from DARING AND SUFFERING: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT RAILROAD ADVENTURE BY LIEUT. WILLIAM PITTENGER, ONE OF THE ADVENTURERS (see the bibliographic record at Project Gutenberg and download if you wish). The Introduction author describes a bit of Mr. Pittenger’s family and path to the railroad adventure:
William Pittenger, b. 31 Jan 1840, Jefferson Co. Ohio, son of Thomas Pittenger. His mother’s family were the Mills’s. He was under the command of Colonel Harris in the Ohio 2nd, and General Mitchell after transferring to a division encamped at Louisville.
Two other names in the introduction:
Chaplain Gaddis of the Ohio 2nd
Rev. Capt. J. J. Geer
Names from DARING AND SUFFERING: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT RAILROAD ADVENTURE BY LIEUT. WILLIAM PITTENGER, ONE OF THE ADVENTURERS (see the bibliographic record at Project Gutenberg and download if you wish). This book describes the adventurers’ roles in the Union’s run to destroy the Georgia State Railroad during the Civil War. It is easiest to copy the names here as they are listed in the book:
| NAMES OF THE ADVENTURERS. |
|
| EXECUTED. |
| J. J. Andrews,Leader, |
|
Citizen of Kentucky. |
| William Campbell, |
|
Citizen of Kentucky. |
| George D. Wilson, |
Co. B, |
Second Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| Marion A. Ross, |
Co. A, |
Second Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| Perry G. Shadrack, |
Co. K, |
Second Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| Samuel Slavens, |
|
Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| Samuel Robinson, |
Co. G, |
Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| John Scott, |
Co. K, |
Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
|
| ESCAPED IN OCTOBER. |
| W. W. Brown, |
Co. F, |
Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| William Knight, |
Co. E, |
Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| J. R. Porter, |
Co. C, |
Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| Mark Wood, |
Co. C, |
Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| J. A. Wilson, |
Co. C, |
Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| M. J. Hawkins, |
Co. A, |
Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| John Wollam, |
Co. C, |
Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| D. A. Dorsey, |
Co. H, |
Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
|
| EXCHANGED IN MARCH. |
| Jacob Parrott, |
Co. K, |
Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| Robert Buffum, |
Co. H, |
Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| William Bensinger, |
Co. G, |
Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| William Reddick, |
Co. B, |
Thirty-third Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| E. H. Mason, |
Co. K, |
Twenty-first Reg’t Ohio Vols. |
| William Pittenger, |
Co. G, |
Second Reg’t Ohio Vols. |