loaderXI Posted October 11, 2016 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 73 Topic Count: 397 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6443 Content Per Day: 1.12 Reputation: 6585 Achievement Points: 54697 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 32 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Tuesday at 02:23 AM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Posted October 11, 2016 Pvt. Charles F Lang of Co.K 1ST. Me Cavalry 1455 miles from me sits over 35000 souls from times long gone on 239 acres of land in a Cemetery known as Evergreen Cemetery Portland Maine...We traveled this distance in the past month for family and I took the time to visit a few graves there and there was a row that beckoned me way far back as if to wave...Among this row were 4 graves a mother a father and perhaps a daughter and one son...Who,s Name was Pvt.Charles F Lang no longer known to us but only to God...Killed in Action 10/27/1864 18 yrs old and 2 months Pvt. Charles F Lang of Co.K 1ST. Me Cavalry http://www.mainecav.org/history.htm I took pictures and recorded data of the site such as GPS and the surroundings and we continued on our trek back the 1455 miles South...After some research I was able to connect the dots and put his story together...You see Pvt.Charles F Lang took up arms at the age of 16,17 or 18 left his home in Maine and traveled and fought his way over 700 miles away to help build this Country and defeat The Confederate Army...He gave his life in battle for me and you...Im sure he took a knee as he went down from being wounded and would have continued to stand and fight had he not been wounded and killed....This is why "I" stand and why "I" would never dishonor those before me.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Boydton_Plank_Road He and his family will forever be known now Thanks to a one mans idea (Jim Tipton) and tens of thousands of people who devote some of there time across this globe marking,recording,geo locating and finally entering the data withhttp://www.findagrave.org/cgi-bin/fg.cgi…& ...Who I am now a proud member of...I am so very Grateful to know his story and to be able to share it... P.S. He died just one half a mile from Shepherdstown West Va. chartered in 1762 by Thomas Shepherd...102 years later the area there would be recorded as some of the bloodiest battle grounds of the American Civil War bds1961 1 Awards
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