You could also contact the Richmond Times-Dispatch, as was not Douglas Southall Freeman an editor there; and the Museum of the Confederacy Library in Richmond -- Frankie David Roberts wrote: >Carol: > >In the large city papers column after column of the dead were printed >following major battles. My guess is that the papers serving smaller >communities would pick up the lists from the city papers and then print the >names of local men. > >I need to check the "long Islander" from Huntington, Suffolk County, L. I. >to see how it handed the war dead. My death-marriage indexes of that paper >begin in 1878. > >My great-great-grandfather from Smithtown, Suffolk County, L. I. died during >the Petersburg Campaign in 1864. He was in the 139th New York. My >great-great-grandmother's brother from Babylon, Suffolk County, L. I. died >during the Union occupation of Yorktown and the Virginia Peninsula in 1863. >He was in the 127th New York. How my two great-great-grandmothers found out >about the death of the one's husband and the other one's brother, I really >don't know. This would be an interesting question. > >I worked on an index for the local St. Mary's County, Maryland, paper for >our public library, starting in 1852. The local paper was shut down by the >Lincoln government for being critical of the Lincoln administration and for >running pro-Confederate editorials. The editor was sent to Fort Lafayette >[where the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge now stands] and rode out the war in >prison ..... so much for "freedom of the press." > >I suppose the local Confederates found out about war deaths via the Richmond >papers ? > >I'll see what I can find from members of my Civil War Round Table in >Fredericksburg, Virginia, & from a friend w/ the National Park Service at >Chickamauga National Military Park in North Georgia. > >David > >David Roberts >Hollywood, MD > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "carol kammen" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 10:21 AM >Subject: [NYHIST-L] Civil War death notices > > > > >>Dear All >> >>I have a feeling I should know the answer to this, but don't. >>How were families in upstate New York notified when loved >>ones in the Civil War were killed. >>I cannot imagine a soldier coming to the door; rather, I >>think it must have been a telegram. >> >>Could anyone tell me? >> >>with much appreciation >> >>Carol Kammen >>Tompkins County Historian >> >> >> > > >