Stonecrusher
09-22-2014, 01:04 PM
I have been searching for info on this gun for quite some time. I have had no luck, so I thought I would ask our membership.
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The rifle musket shown was reputedly dug at Petersburg Virginia. The markings scratched on it indicate that it was carried by my Great-Great Grandfather Thomas Craven. He served in the 11th South Carolina Infantry and was captured June 24, 1864 at Petersburg. He subsequently died as a POW in Elmira Prison in New York.
I discovered the pictures while doing a little research on Ancestry.Com and was included in a family tree by a "roughly" third cousin of mine. I do not know this person and attempts to contact him resulted in nothing. I also tried to contact the web address on the photos and didn't get anywhere either. I don't think my "cousin" was purposely ignoring me, most genealogy people are always interested in comparing notes, but rather did not keep paying for membership to Ancestry.com after doing what he wanted to do and has never seen the messages I sent.
What I would like is to find any information at all about this gun. For example: is it for real, when and where exactly it was dug, and where it is now? I would love to see this piece of family history if not actually purchase it. Even some better pictures would be great.
Any info or leads would be greatly appreciated. My people were always poor dirt farmers and little or nothing, other than some photos, have been passed down from this time period. It would be great to have a link with my Great Great grandfather.
Thanks in advance!
117089117090
The rifle musket shown was reputedly dug at Petersburg Virginia. The markings scratched on it indicate that it was carried by my Great-Great Grandfather Thomas Craven. He served in the 11th South Carolina Infantry and was captured June 24, 1864 at Petersburg. He subsequently died as a POW in Elmira Prison in New York.
I discovered the pictures while doing a little research on Ancestry.Com and was included in a family tree by a "roughly" third cousin of mine. I do not know this person and attempts to contact him resulted in nothing. I also tried to contact the web address on the photos and didn't get anywhere either. I don't think my "cousin" was purposely ignoring me, most genealogy people are always interested in comparing notes, but rather did not keep paying for membership to Ancestry.com after doing what he wanted to do and has never seen the messages I sent.
What I would like is to find any information at all about this gun. For example: is it for real, when and where exactly it was dug, and where it is now? I would love to see this piece of family history if not actually purchase it. Even some better pictures would be great.
Any info or leads would be greatly appreciated. My people were always poor dirt farmers and little or nothing, other than some photos, have been passed down from this time period. It would be great to have a link with my Great Great grandfather.
Thanks in advance!