Create a Company with Me!
I need help with something fun! I have decided that, for my Civil War story (aka, "Journey of Choice"), I will create my own company to be in the 18th Missouri regiment. This means I need 100 men (I probably won't mention them all by name, but I need to know of them as an author, right?). And I have four. ;) I feel very dry when it comes to thinking up SO many names, so I'm asking you: what are some Civil War-era names? First and last. Shoot away!!!
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Kim
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Aug 28, 2016 04:58AM
My great-great-grandfather fought in the Georgia Infantry in the Civil War. His name was John Osborn Love.
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Kim wrote: "My great-great-grandfather fought in the Georgia Infantry in the Civil War. His name was John Osborn Love.""Love." What a neat last name! :)
It was my grandma's maiden name and I've always LOVED it...no pun intended! Her whole family is buried in Love Cemetery in Alma, Arkansas.
Personally, I sure wouldn't bother to name 100 men, but hats off to you for author dedication! If I were going to attempt something like that, what I would do is find an actual register of Civil War soldiers (like this one, to give a random example: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?i...) and then mix-and-match first and last names.(Incidentally, FWIW, my research indicates that Civil War companies frequently didn't even start out with exactly 100 men.)
Zachary wrote: "Personally, I sure wouldn't bother to name 100 men, but hats off to you for author dedication! If I were going to attempt something like that, what I would do is find an actual register of Civil Wa..."Haha! I'm actually probably not going to map out all 100, but I want the options there because I'm pretty bad when it comes to just grabbing names from "midair." And yes, the 18th Missouri was consistently a small regiment, hardly scratching 100 men per company.
Thanks for the link! Great idea! :)
