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CIVIL WAR KEARNY BRIGADE MONUMENT CHANTILLY VIRGINIA REBEL FAMILY HONORED For Sale
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CIVIL WAR KEARNY BRIGADE MONUMENT CHANTILLY VIRGINIA REBEL FAMILY HONORED:
$250.00
Notable New Jersey Brigade Commander General Phil Kearny was killed in action leading his First New Jersey Brigade in 1862 at the Battle of Chantilly or Ox Hill, Virginia. Lt John N Ballard, a Confederate Cavalry veteran who served under John S Mosby. After the War he and wife Mary Reid Thrift Ballard owned Fruit Dale Farm and much of the Ox Hill Battlefield after the war. In 1915 the couple donated a plot of the land for monuments commemorating any Confederate or Union soldier who fell on the Battlefield. In 1925 The veterans of the First New Jersey Brigade Society dedicated monuments to General Kearny and General Isaac Stevens also killed there. It is now Fairfax County Ox Hill Battlefield Park.An Original Resolution issued by the First New Jersey Brigade Society, Newark, NJ, Sept 25, 1925 thanking \"Mrs John N Ballard, widow of a former Confederate Soldier\" who with her husband deeded the plot at Ox Hill\" for the memorials. The Resolution is issued \"on the Final Reunion of Kearny\'s First New Jersey Brigade Society\". The 1p typed 8 x 14\" resolution is ink signed by NJ Brigade Society Presiding Officer Herbert V McCovier and by Charles F Hopkins as Secretary. Private Hopkins was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism at Gaines Mill where, although wounded saved the life of a comrade.Comes w service info for Lt John Ballard, 56th Virginia, (who, lost a leg, but continued serving, wearing the artificial leg of Union Colonel Ulric Dahlgren! ) and For Private Hopkins who survived his wounds and POW life at Andersonville & at Florence, South Carolina Prisons. Minor edge wear, folds, Overall VG with original heavy stock backpaper.Mike Brackin
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