Bil Brasington
Confederate-American
With the trend towards hyphenated Ethnic ID's, I was at a loss. I hate the term
WASP (White AngloSaxon Protestant). While Brasington is an Olde English name
and therefore AngloSaxon (technically Angles, the German tribe that invaded the
British Isles with the Saxons), I have lines that lead to the Norman Invasion,
with other lines to Iteland, Scotland, and Wales. The only thing that pretty
well defines me is a recoginiton of my Rebel Roots
Over time, my 2 interest in US History and tracking my family trees have become
intertwined, which makes sense since my family's history is but a sub-set of US
History. The first documented Brasington in what would become the USA,
according to "The Records of the Virginia Company of London" was Thomas
Brasington, who unfortunately was killed in the "Massacre of 1622" at Captain
John Berkley's Plantation seated at the Falling Creek, some 66 miles from James
City Co (Jamestown), Virginia. Another of my lines is Richard Owings, who was
in Anne Arundel County Maryland by 1684/5. He served as Captain of the Rangers
on the Potomac River until the Rangers were disbanded. The duties of the
Rangers were to protect the inhabitants of the area from attacks of "unfriendly
Indians".
My research has led me any many directions and I have gathered much data that I
am more than willing to share with others. I have scattered it around the
InterNet a bit and this page is more to tie it together.
I hope you find value in it and if you can add to it, drop me a line.
Got data you would like to share to the world? Let me know and I will help you
put it on the WEB.
Bil
The following are the pages I have produced, most for me but also for others:
A major source of data for me is Census records and Lancaster County is where
my paternal lines come from so I built
Lancaster County Census Data
My paternal grandfather (John Samuel Brasington) entered active service in
defense of South Carolina as a 16 year old boy in the
Last CallUp
of the available manpower (and boy power) in a last ditch effort.
While looking for data on John, I found his application to reside in The
Confederate Home, in Columbia. I was born and raised in Columbia and
remembered where the cemetery was. I surveyed the cemetery and added data from
the Application files at the SC Archives and published the
Expanded Confederate (SC) Cemetery
I became very interested in all of those units that no one else seems to
research
SC Reserves 61-64
since for the most part that did not participate in the Big Battles
I stumbled across references to the Militia's use as Guards of POW's. I
"discovered" that they guarded Union Officers at
Columbia CSA POW Camp,
and possibly one of my great grandfathers was a guard of these POWs
Not to be biased and leave the impression that CSA POW camps were worse than
Union POW Camps, I include some first hand rememberances from Confederate
Patriots and statistics on Union POW Camps to show
The Other Side,
One of my great grandfathers was killed at
Gettysburg.
3rd Lieutenant Marion Richard Hinson served in 2nd Regiment of SC Volunteers,
Company H, "The Lancaster Invincibles". I started looking for his final
resting place. I managed to come across the data. I include various
cemeteries of
SC Confederate Patriots who died on Northern Soil.
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If you have any information about these troops or these units, please
Bil Brasington