Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service
Jump to Forum
Home: Regional: U.S. States: Tennessee: Bledsoe County

Post FollowupReturn to Message ListingsPrint Message

Re: Mannings, of Bledsoe co. TN
Posted by: JoAnn Cantrell (ID *****6435) Date: June 16, 2003 at 11:37:33
In Reply to: Re: Mannings, of Bledsoe co. TN by Kathy Bryant of 326

Hi Kathy, I'm sure that our John Howard MANNING was not a general. From oral history, this John was conscripted into the southern army, did not want to fight and ran off to join the Northern army...was caught and shot as a deserter. One member of the firing squad was supposedly his own brother.

JoAnn Cantrell


Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:

Post FollowupReturn to Message ListingsPrint Message

http://genforum.genealogy.com/tn/bledsoe/messages/251.html
Search this forum:

Search all of GenForum:

Proximity matching
Add this forum to My GenForum Link to GenForum
Add Forum
Home |  Help |  About Us |  Site Index |  Jobs |  PRIVACY |  Affiliate
© 2007 The Generations Network