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Author: jason hands |
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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. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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