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The Train Accident Of 1950 in Rowan County.

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  I was searching for a story about a train wreck in Effingham County Georgia. And this was also talked about. I occasionally Train Spot. I love trains. The Train Accident Of 1950 in Rowan County. Early on the morning of July 13, 1950, Elbert W. Kluttz, a freight train conductor for Southern had finished a run in Greenville, S.C. Rather than wait on the train he normally would have taken back home to Rowan County, Kluttz hopped on Engine 585, the lead of two locomotives that were pulling nine cars of rock. It was heading for Albemarle, which would require branching off onto the Yadkin line in Rowan County. Kluttz planned to jump off during a stop in Rockwell. In effect, Kluttz was hitching a ride and enjoying the conversation with Engine 585’s four-man crew. His fellow railroaders knew Kluttz by the nickname “Ebb.” No one back home knew Ebb Kluttz would be getting back so early. Ray Kluttz worked that morning at the family business, Kluttz Music and Furniture Co., which his musically i
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Drawing shows General Robert E. Lee and General Ulysses S. Grant standing near a large tree, possibly on the "old stage road to Richmond, between the picket-lines" of both armies with officers for each standing nearby; Lee is shown holding a paper, reviewing the terms as set by Grant for surrender, as Grant gestures toward the Union forces on the right.
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Thomas Coleman "Cole" Younger (1844-1916)

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Photograph shows Thomas Coleman "Cole" Younger (1844-1916), a Civil War Confederate guerrilla and later a leader with the James-Younger gang who died on March 21, 1916.
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3 Wars 3 Different men.

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Civil War veteran Powhattan Perkins Pullen of Co. B, 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, Spanish-American War veteran David Ferrell Quillin of Co. D and Co. G, 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, and World War I veteran John Luke Browning, all of Paris, Tennessee
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President William McKinley was a Civil War veteran

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  William McKinley  was a Civil War veteran himself. President McKinley, who had fought for the Union, showed no animosity toward men who had fought for the other side.Incidentally,  William McKinley  was a Civil War veteran himself. President McKinley, who had fought for the Union, showed no animosity toward men who had fought for the other side.
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Thomas Lafayette Rosser left West Point without waiting to graduate with the class of 1861. Accepting a commission in the Confederate army, he was in a number of famous battles, including First Manassas (Bull Run), the Seven Days, Beaver Dam Creek, Second Manassas, South Mountain, Sharpsburg (Antietam), Gettysburg, the Wilderness and Appomattox. He was wounded three times. Thirty-three years later, McKinley made Rosser a brigadier general of United States volunteers in the Spanish-American War. Peter Conover Hains didn’t see as much action as his Southern counterparts, but no other officer had the distinction of serving in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the First World War. Hains graduated from the United States Military Academy on June 24, 1861, two months after the Confederates fired on Fort Sumter. His West Point classmates included George Armstrong Custer and Thomas L. Rosser. Hains was commissioned a second lieutenant and promoted to first lieutenant, Light Battery M,
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Joseph Wheeler , another Confederate officer in the Civil War, served in the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War. Wheeler (West Point, 1859) commanded the 19th Alabama at the battle of Shiloh and the siege of Corinth, and went on to command the 2nd Cavalry Brigade in Braxton Bragg’s Army of Mississippi. General Wheeler clashed repeatedly with Nathan Bedford Forrest, but retained Bragg’s faith in his ability. Joe Wheeler’s Civil War career ended in 1865, when Union troops captured him at Conyer’s Station, near Atlanta. At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, President William McKinley appointed Wheeler major general of volunteers. General Wheeler took charge of the cavalry division (Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders were part of his command). In 1899 Wheeler headed to the Philippines to command the 1st Brigade, 2nd Division in the Philippine-American War.
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