Online images of these moving letters can be seen at the: Missouri Digital Heritage website
Commentary by John Barnhill, 2000
According to Sylvia Noel’s history of the Babb family, in 1856 Joseph Cooper Babb (1844-1863) moved from Laurens County, S.C., with his family. His father, the Rev. Robert Franklin Babb (1816-1898) and his mother, Virginia Attaline Cooper (1822-1910), brought Joseph, his four brothers, his sister, and six slaves to Boone County. Robert Franklin was a Baptist minister. He and the family also lived on 6th Street in Columbia in the house (now the site of the Missouri State Teachers Association) which was the first home of Columbia College/the University of Missouri.
Joseph Cooper was a student at the University of Missouri when he joined Captain Young Purcell’s company. Babb may have participated in Purcell’s raid that freed three prisoners in the Boone County jail in the summer of 1862. He is thought to have been at the Battle of Moore’s Mill in Callaway County on July 28. This battle produced six dead and twenty-one wounded Confederates and thirteen dead and fifty-five wounded Union soldiers. One of Babb’s sketches is believed to be of this battle, but there’s no proof.
When the Missouri Confederates withdrew toward Arkansas, Purcell went along. Babb was captured in Miller County, MO, in November. After a stay in Jefferson City, he was moved to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, then to the smallpox hospital on Johnston’s Island. He died of smallpox in 1863 on Johnston Island, where he was buried in a mass grave.
Posted by Boone County Historical Society Archives at 7:14 PM
Labels: 1840-1869, Original Documents
copied from http://boonehistory.blogspot.com/2009/12/joseph-cooper-babb-civil-war-letters.html
Commentary by John Barnhill, 2000
According to Sylvia Noel’s history of the Babb family, in 1856 Joseph Cooper Babb (1844-1863) moved from Laurens County, S.C., with his family. His father, the Rev. Robert Franklin Babb (1816-1898) and his mother, Virginia Attaline Cooper (1822-1910), brought Joseph, his four brothers, his sister, and six slaves to Boone County. Robert Franklin was a Baptist minister. He and the family also lived on 6th Street in Columbia in the house (now the site of the Missouri State Teachers Association) which was the first home of Columbia College/the University of Missouri.
Joseph Cooper was a student at the University of Missouri when he joined Captain Young Purcell’s company. Babb may have participated in Purcell’s raid that freed three prisoners in the Boone County jail in the summer of 1862. He is thought to have been at the Battle of Moore’s Mill in Callaway County on July 28. This battle produced six dead and twenty-one wounded Confederates and thirteen dead and fifty-five wounded Union soldiers. One of Babb’s sketches is believed to be of this battle, but there’s no proof.
When the Missouri Confederates withdrew toward Arkansas, Purcell went along. Babb was captured in Miller County, MO, in November. After a stay in Jefferson City, he was moved to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, then to the smallpox hospital on Johnston’s Island. He died of smallpox in 1863 on Johnston Island, where he was buried in a mass grave.
Posted by Boone County Historical Society Archives at 7:14 PM
Labels: 1840-1869, Original Documents
copied from http://boonehistory.blogspot.com/2009/12/joseph-cooper-babb-civil-war-letters.html
Online images of these moving letters can be seen at the: Missouri Digital Heritage website
Commentary by John Barnhill, 2000
According to Sylvia Noel’s history of the Babb family, in 1856 Joseph Cooper Babb (1844-1863) moved from Laurens County, S.C., with his family. His father, the Rev. Robert Franklin Babb (1816-1898) and his mother, Virginia Attaline Cooper (1822-1910), brought Joseph, his four brothers, his sister, and six slaves to Boone County. Robert Franklin was a Baptist minister. He and the family also lived on 6th Street in Columbia in the house (now the site of the Missouri State Teachers Association) which was the first home of Columbia College/the University of Missouri.
Joseph Cooper was a student at the University of Missouri when he joined Captain Young Purcell’s company. Babb may have participated in Purcell’s raid that freed three prisoners in the Boone County jail in the summer of 1862. He is thought to have been at the Battle of Moore’s Mill in Callaway County on July 28. This battle produced six dead and twenty-one wounded Confederates and thirteen dead and fifty-five wounded Union soldiers. One of Babb’s sketches is believed to be of this battle, but there’s no proof.
When the Missouri Confederates withdrew toward Arkansas, Purcell went along. Babb was captured in Miller County, MO, in November. After a stay in Jefferson City, he was moved to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, then to the smallpox hospital on Johnston’s Island. He died of smallpox in 1863 on Johnston Island, where he was buried in a mass grave.
Posted by Boone County Historical Society Archives at 7:14 PM
Labels: 1840-1869, Original Documents
copied from http://boonehistory.blogspot.com/2009/12/joseph-cooper-babb-civil-war-letters.html
Commentary by John Barnhill, 2000
According to Sylvia Noel’s history of the Babb family, in 1856 Joseph Cooper Babb (1844-1863) moved from Laurens County, S.C., with his family. His father, the Rev. Robert Franklin Babb (1816-1898) and his mother, Virginia Attaline Cooper (1822-1910), brought Joseph, his four brothers, his sister, and six slaves to Boone County. Robert Franklin was a Baptist minister. He and the family also lived on 6th Street in Columbia in the house (now the site of the Missouri State Teachers Association) which was the first home of Columbia College/the University of Missouri.
Joseph Cooper was a student at the University of Missouri when he joined Captain Young Purcell’s company. Babb may have participated in Purcell’s raid that freed three prisoners in the Boone County jail in the summer of 1862. He is thought to have been at the Battle of Moore’s Mill in Callaway County on July 28. This battle produced six dead and twenty-one wounded Confederates and thirteen dead and fifty-five wounded Union soldiers. One of Babb’s sketches is believed to be of this battle, but there’s no proof.
When the Missouri Confederates withdrew toward Arkansas, Purcell went along. Babb was captured in Miller County, MO, in November. After a stay in Jefferson City, he was moved to Gratiot Street Prison in St. Louis, then to the smallpox hospital on Johnston’s Island. He died of smallpox in 1863 on Johnston Island, where he was buried in a mass grave.
Posted by Boone County Historical Society Archives at 7:14 PM
Labels: 1840-1869, Original Documents
copied from http://boonehistory.blogspot.com/2009/12/joseph-cooper-babb-civil-war-letters.html
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