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    "Dear Darling Loulie"
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    Genealogy Series

    By Rachel Taylor Hall, Rachel Taylor Hall and Johannes Loschke

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    For anyone doing genealogical research on the Leuschner family or the area of Colditz in the 16th or 17th centuries, this document may provide valuable insight. Dr. Johannes Loschke was a descendant of Georg Leuschner. Loschke lived more than 350 years after Leuschner, but had enough material from the family’s own archives to delve into history on a solid footing.

    Genealogical research has been improved and facilitated greatly by the growth of online software and platforms for creating family trees. Along with that, the sharing of previously “family only” documents has become common. As our ancestries began to link and correspond with those of people we previously had no idea even existed, many of these private and exclusive documents began to come into public view.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBroomhandle Books
    Release dateSep 20, 2014
    "Dear Darling Loulie"

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      "Dear Darling Loulie"

      "Dear Darling Loulie"

      Rachel Taylor Hall
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      This compilation of the letters of Cordelia Lewis Scales originally was transcribed and annotated in the 1950’s by Dr. Benjamin Gray Lumpkin and Martha Neville Lumpkin. The genealogical interest the pair took in their ancestors centered on family research into the life of Dabney Minor Scales, who served as a second lieutenant on the Shenandoah, the most important and famous ship of the Confederate Navy. Now available in an electronic edition for the first time, this collection of letters written by Cordelia Lewis Scales, who lived eight miles north of Holly Springs. Mississippi, depicts the life and general morale of the civilian population during the War between the States. Four of these letters were included in Percy L. Rainwater (ed.), "The Civil War Letters of Cordelia Scales," in Journal of Mississippi History, 1 (July, 1939), 169–181, which produced seven letters covering the period from May 19, 1861, to February 18, 1866. The collection includes a variety of letters also penned by Dabney Scales and other members of Cordelia's immediate family. The research notes that annotate the letters from Cordelia are both anecdotal and academic. Many insights are provided by these notes and comments shed important light on life in Holly Springs before, during and after the War between the States. Mentions of famous politicians and military leaders add color to the emotions and experiences of Cordelia and other family members who penned letters in this collections. Photographs of Dabney Minor Scales and Cordelia Lewis Scales are included in the electronic version. Also included are photographs of original sketches drawn by Dabney Minor Scales, which he inserted into his letters regarding his naval service on the Shenandoah and the Arkansas. Material on the lives and treatment of slaves and former slaves during these periods is also provided. With an ever growing interest in the War Between the States, online documents such as this lend support to the fact that this War of Northern Aggression left an ongoing imprint on Southern culture. Re-enactors, whether mildly interested or hardcore, whether from North or South, whether academics or rebel progeny, will all find excellent material in this collection of letters that was carefully annotated with historical background material so lovingly by Ben and Martha Lumpkin.

      This compilation of the letters of Cordelia Lewis Scales originally was transcribed and annotated in the 1950’s by Dr. Benjamin Gray Lumpkin and Martha Neville Lumpkin. The genealogical interest the pair took in their ancestors centered on family research into the life of Dabney Minor Scales, who served as a second lieutenant on the Shenandoah, the most important and famous ship of the Confederate Navy. Now available in an electronic edition for the first time, this collection of letters written by Cordelia Lewis Scales, who lived eight miles north of Holly Springs. Mississippi, depicts the life and general morale of the civilian population during the War between the States. Four of these letters were included in Percy L. Rainwater (ed.), "The Civil War Letters of Cordelia Scales," in Journal of Mississippi History, 1 (July, 1939), 169–181, which produced seven letters covering the period from May 19, 1861, to February 18, 1866. The collection includes a variety of letters also penned by Dabney Scales and other members of Cordelia's immediate family. The research notes that annotate the letters from Cordelia are both anecdotal and academic. Many insights are provided by these notes and comments shed important light on life in Holly Springs before, during and after the War between the States. Mentions of famous politicians and military leaders add color to the emotions and experiences of Cordelia and other family members who penned letters in this collections. Photographs of Dabney Minor Scales and Cordelia Lewis Scales are included in the electronic version. Also included are photographs of original sketches drawn by Dabney Minor Scales, which he inserted into his letters regarding his naval service on the Shenandoah and the Arkansas. Material on the lives and treatment of slaves and former slaves during these periods is also provided. With an ever growing interest in the War Between the States, online documents such as this lend support to the fact that this War of Northern Aggression left an ongoing imprint on Southern culture. Re-enactors, whether mildly interested or hardcore, whether from North or South, whether academics or rebel progeny, will all find excellent material in this collection of letters that was carefully annotated with historical background material so lovingly by Ben and Martha Lumpkin.

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    Rachel Taylor Hall

    Rachel Taylor Hall is a true daughter of the South. She was born and raised in Clarksville, Tennessee, on the Taylor Plantation. In 1817, Drewery Taylor purchased 400 acres of crop land in Montgomery County, Tennessee and set up the Taylor Plantation. The working land produced corn, soybeans and tobacco. By 1849 the Taylor plantation had expanded to nearby land where it included a grist mill and a candle factory. The plantation remained a working farm until the late 1980’s. At the time the original house and land were sold, the overseer’s cabin, coal house, former slave cabins, corn crib, horse barn and several other outbuildings were still standing. At the time of sale, the Taylor family took with them one article in particular: a freestanding combination safe from the overseer’s cabin. The members of the Taylor family who vacated the property said this safe had been in the overseer’s cabin for 150 years. It was acquired new and still remains in the hands of Rachel Taylor, the last living Taylor descendant. Rachel Taylor, notwithstanding the fear of ancestors turning in their graves, moved temporarily to Ohio to attend college and married a Yankee in 1987. To ensure she would not be the cause of another Yankee invasion to the South, Rachel refused to bear children until returning to Tennessee. She and her own Southern children continue each day to do their best to educate and indoctrinate a Yankee husband and father to Southern ways and customs. As such, the war goes on!

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