March of 1863, just prior to the beginning of the Tullahoma Campaign, Calvin was at home, minding his own business, still recuperating from his wounds at Shiloh, when a few Yankees dropped in uninvited and unexpected. Feeding an army takes a lot of food, and the Federal soldiers were going farther and farther out into the countryside each day, scouraging for livestock, corn, vegetables, looking for supplies, or anything else they could steal, when they came to the Lowe farm. The chickens Minerva Lowe had raised must have looked rather tasty to these men of an Ohio unit and they decided to take them. She decided otherwise, but they did not respect her objections. They stabbed her - in the stomach - in her seventh month of pregnancy. She died April 14, 1863. The baby girl, whom they named Martha, was born prematurely and only lived three days. Calvin was arrested, brought to the Courthouse, and held prisoner until he reluctantly took “The Oath.” In his application for Civil War pension, he states “that he didn’t know what had become of his family, his eight children ranging in age rom 12 to 2, and he had to get home to see about them.”
Shirley Farris Jones posted on facebook.com Kelton Cemetery at Black Flox Spring 3/24/2013
Shirley Farris Jones posted on facebook.com Kelton Cemetery at Black Flox Spring 3/24/2013
March of 1863, just prior to the beginning of the Tullahoma Campaign, Calvin was at home, minding his own business, still recuperating from his wounds at Shiloh, when a few Yankees dropped in uninvited and unexpected. Feeding an army takes a lot of food, and the Federal soldiers were going farther and farther out into the countryside each day, scouraging for livestock, corn, vegetables, looking for supplies, or anything else they could steal, when they came to the Lowe farm. The chickens Minerva Lowe had raised must have looked rather tasty to these men of an Ohio unit and they decided to take them. She decided otherwise, but they did not respect her objections. They stabbed her - in the stomach - in her seventh month of pregnancy. She died April 14, 1863. The baby girl, whom they named Martha, was born prematurely and only lived three days. Calvin was arrested, brought to the Courthouse, and held prisoner until he reluctantly took “The Oath.” In his application for Civil War pension, he states “that he didn’t know what had become of his family, his eight children ranging in age rom 12 to 2, and he had to get home to see about them.”
Shirley Farris Jones posted on facebook.com Kelton Cemetery at Black Flox Spring 3/24/2013
Shirley Farris Jones posted on facebook.com Kelton Cemetery at Black Flox Spring 3/24/2013
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