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Subject: Re: Robinson Woollen Hands: My Hero


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Date Posted: Tuesday, September 04, 09:57:33pm
In reply to: Jim Miller, Southport, North Carolina 's message, "Robinson Woollen Hands: My Hero" on Tuesday, April 26, 09:36:24pm

i am a descendant of them. my brother has more geneological info. he actually happens to live in north carolina.
>I'm amazed; I did not know USS Monitor 3rd Asst Engr.
>Robinson Woollen Hands was married nor had children.
>I'd love to meet his descendants. His memorial stone
>is in downtown Baltimore. The men of the "Starboard
>Watch Society" voted Robinson the Monitor's "best
>loved officer" by the Monitor enlisted crew. In a
>Monitor 3-D photo, Robinston sits atop a jury-rigged
>stool of two USS Monitor armoured deck-light covers,
>before the turret with other officers. One of these
>covers positively identified the wreck as THEE, USS
>Monitor, and not just a "monitor-class" vessel.
>Robinson's brother, Capt. George Washington Hands,
>Jr., CSA Infantry, considered Robinson a "traitor" and
>never again bespoke his late brother's name untill his
>own death. My grear grandfather, Sgt. James Anderson
>Woollen, CSA musician, is in the 1890's book, "Lee
>Family of Virginia" by Edmund Jennings Lee. I have
>seven CSA ancestors, no Union. A kinsman, Capt.
>Charles Dearborn Copp, earned the Union, Medal of
>Honor, at the Battle of Fredericksburg, where my
>ancestor, Capt. Alfred Alexander Miller, CSA, was
>killed. In the 1890's, Copp's belated Medal of Honor,
>arrived in the U.S. mail.

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