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Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:06 pm
by O. O. Howard
Kerflumoxed wrote:
Many great handles in use...most of which I recognize from history. However, there is no indication where anyone resides. Would it be inappropriate to inquire of those who may be inclined to state their location?

As noted in my signature, I am from Fremont, NE, ... just outside Omaha.

Just curious.

J
I am in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. My cousins used to live near Omaha somewhere. I think the place was called Papillion (butterfly in french, which is how I remember it - never having been there).

Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 4:31 pm
by Kerflumoxed
O. O. Howard wrote:
Kerflumoxed wrote:
Many great handles in use...most of which I recognize from history. However, there is no indication where anyone resides. Would it be inappropriate to inquire of those who may be inclined to state their location?

As noted in my signature, I am from Fremont, NE, ... just outside Omaha.

Just curious.

J
I am in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. My cousins used to live near Omaha somewhere. I think the place was called Papillion (butterfly in french, which is how I remember it - never having been there).
Commonly known as "Papio", it is adjacent to LaVista, which is adjacent to Ralston which is next door, on the south edge, of Omaha.

What the heck are you doing in Tanzania...must be something great? We could use a little sunshine in exchange for our snow. Wanna trade?

Thanks

J

Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 5:21 pm
by Joshua l.Chamberlain
I live on a mountain north of Priest Rive in northern Idaho.

Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:21 pm
by Ephrum
Perrin's Brigade of Pender's Div.

That's because my Great, Great, Great Grandfather served in the 14th South Carolina.

Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:18 pm
by IronBMike
I live in Northern Virginia, about a mile from the Manassas Battlefield.

Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:40 pm
by Armchair General
I live in Southern Maine. One of my ancestors was killed at GBurg fighting with the 17th ME, another was a chaplain to a Massachusetts battalion and wrote the regiment's history while another lost an arm because of gangrene.

Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:57 pm
by Hancock the Superb
Washington.

Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 8:57 pm
by Hancock the Superb
Now how many people though I lived in Washington D.C. from that last post?

Because, THEY ARE WRONG!

Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 10:40 pm
by O. O. Howard
Kerflumoxed wrote:
O. O. Howard wrote:
Kerflumoxed wrote:
Many great handles in use...most of which I recognize from history. However, there is no indication where anyone resides. Would it be inappropriate to inquire of those who may be inclined to state their location?

As noted in my signature, I am from Fremont, NE, ... just outside Omaha.

Just curious.

J
I am in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. My cousins used to live near Omaha somewhere. I think the place was called Papillion (butterfly in french, which is how I remember it - never having been there).
Commonly known as "Papio", it is adjacent to LaVista, which is adjacent to Ralston which is next door, on the south edge, of Omaha.

What the heck are you doing in Tanzania...must be something great? We could use a little sunshine in exchange for our snow. Wanna trade?

Thanks

J
I have been in Africa for over 20 years now; first in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), then Tanzania, Uganda, Ghana, Malawi, Uganda again and now Tanzania again. My work is housing microfinance for low income households. I also spent a lot of time working with appropriate technology and developing durable roofing and flooring materials that could be produced locally in rural villages. Believe me, I would LOVE to trade some of Dar's heat and humidity for snow!

Re:Favorite Brigades

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:43 am
by O. O. Howard
Armchair General wrote:
I live in Southern Maine. One of my ancestors was killed at GBurg fighting with the 17th ME, another was a chaplain to a Massachusetts battalion and wrote the regiment's history while another lost an arm because of gangrene.
So what Mass. regiment was the chaplain in?