Sullivan regarding his intentions to publish the letters, and so it seems nearly 150 years later our families were briefly brought together yet again for the publication of the letters. In January of 2010 I received an email from J.P. Louis, where they can be found in the Thomas Anderson Moore papers." She was unsuccessful, so in 1951, gave the letters to the Missouri Historical Society at St. After his death, his daughter, Mabel Moore Jones, attempted to find Barton descendants. In hospital in Memphis, he slowly recovered, but the letters remained in his locked cash box until his death in 1915. But Moore was wounded and left for dead in the Confederate attack on Helena, Arkansas on 4 July 1863. Barton died in May 1863, and as Sullivan states, "his letters were taken by a fellow soldier, Thomas Anderson Moore, to return to his people. Our families were brought together during the Civil War when both Barton and Moore served in the Co. Sullivan for publishing the Civil War letters of his ancestor, John M.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |