Page 0: Page 1: A REAL DAUGHTER ESTELLA LOWE RAITERI DAUGHTER OF C.B. LOWE Page 2: Memphis Press --- 1959 My Uncle Robert Claims to be the youngest Son of Confederate Veteran Page 3: The Real Deal STELLA LOWE RAITERI Page 4: STELLA LOWE FALL 2008 Young Stella Lowe Stella Lowe Raiteri at age 87 Page 5: Pictures of Estella Lowe Raiteri Mother Just After Her Birthday With Great Grandchild Page 6: ESTELLA LOWE RAITERI BORN JANUARY 10, 1922 HER MOTHER DIED 1927 She was 5 years old HER FATHER DIED 1933 She was 11 years old RAISED BY HER HALF SISTER (Althea Wallace) AND GRANDMOTHER Smith MARRIED AT AGE 16 TO CHARLES RAITERI MOTHER TO SIX CHILDREN AGES 52-70 YEARS OLD. She IS 87 YEARS OLD TODAY AND HEALTHY RECENTLY RECOVING FROM A BROKEN HIP IN JANUARY 2008 Page 7: Varina Howell Davis Chapter #2559 Horn Lake, MS Shannon Bullard-President Page 8: CB LOWE’S MEMORIAL SERVICE Page 9: C B Lowe’s memorial Service by UDC Varina Howell Davis Chapter #2559, Horn Lake, MS Page 10: Memorial Service—November 1, 2008 Page 11: TWENTY ONE GUN SALUTE Page 12: MEMORIAL SERVICE Page 13: MEMORIAL SERVICE for CB Lowe Shannon (Sister) Pam Dad Mom Me Page 14: GUSSIE AND SHANNON Page 15: Letter from State Senator Page 16: A Visit from Ladies of Jefferson Davis Chapter 2191 Page 17: GUSSIE SCOTT, WALLACE, LOYD, LOWE Gussie Lowe – Born 1887 Married to Wallace - 1901 Married to Loyd - 1903 Married to Loyld 1906 Married CB Lowe 1912 Bore Four Children – One with Wallace and three with CB Lowe Died 1927 Died age 40-- Pneumonia Page 18: CASHUS BRUTUS LOWE—C B LOWE ONE OF 10 CHILDREN FROM JANE AND JESSE LOWE BORN 1848 DIED 1933 AT AGE 86 MARRIED THREE TIMES-DIVORCED TWICE FATHERED 3 SONS WITH FIRST WIFE LAGANA. HE WAS 32 AND SHE WAS 31 MARRIED KATIE - SHE WAS 21- HE THE AGE OF 51 in 1897 AND FATHERED THREE MORE SONS WITH KATIE DIVORCE FROM KATIE IN 1911 MARRIED GUSSIE SCOTT in 1912 – SHE WAS 25, HE WAS 64 FATHERED TWO SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER (MY MOTHER) WITH GUSSIE SCOTT LOWE FROM AGE 65-75 AND STILL GOING STRONG Page 19: CENSUS DATA 1850 Page 20: SLAVEHOLDER RECORDS 1850 Slaves of Jesse Lowe-Father of CB Lowe Age Gender 44 28 25 24 20 18 16 14 9 7 5 3 2 2 0 Male Female Female Male Male Male Male Female Female Female Female Female Female Female Female Race Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Black Slave Owner County, State Jesse Lowe Jesse Lowe Lafayette, MS Lafayette, MS Page 21: CENSUS DATA 1860 Page 22: Census Data 1870 Page 23: Census Date 1880 Page 24: Census Data --1900 Page 25: Census Data 1910 Where is CB? Page 26: Census Data --1920 Page 27: C B LOWE AT 70 and Family Althea Wallace C B Lowe Joe Lowe Gussie Scott Lowe Robert Lowe Page 28: Gussie Wallace ( Lowe) CB Lowe and Son Joseph Lowe Page 29: APPLICATION FOR PENSION Page 30: GEORGE AND C B LOWE WAR DATA GMD (16) ENLISTED NOV 1861 IN PANOLA, MS AND SERVED IN 1ST MISSISSIPPI CAVALRY CB LOWE (15) ENLISTED MARCH 1864 IN PANOLA, MS AND SERVED IN 1st MS CAVALRY CB AND GMB LOWE SURRENDERED IN MAY 1865 WITH NB FORREST CB’S OFFICERS WERE CAPTIAN TOBE TAYLOR, COL R A PENSON, General N B FORREST POW MAY 4, 1865 Paroled May 19, 1865 Page 31: 1st Mississippi Cavalry (Lindsay’s/Pinson’s) Company A -- Carroll Rangers (raised in Carroll County, MS) Company B -- Thompson Cavalry (raised in Lafayette County, MS) Company C -- Panola Cavalry (raised in Panola County, MS) Company D -- Tillatoba Grays (raised in Tallahatchie & Yalobusha Counties, MS) Company E -- Polk Rangers (raised in Calhoun, Lafayette, & Pontotoc Counties, MS) Company F -- Darden Rangers, also the Noxubee Troopers (raised in Noxubee County, MS) Company G -- Noxubee Cavalry Company (raised in Noxubee County, MS) Company H -- Bolivar Troop (raised in Bolivar County, MS) Company I -- Pontotoc Dragoons (raised in Pontotoc County, MS) Company K -- Pontotoc Dragoons No. 2 (raised in Pontotoc County, MS) Colonels -- Andrew J. Lindsay, R. A. Pinson. Lieutenant-Colonels -John H. Miller, resigned; F. A. Montgomery. Majors -- D. C. Herndon, of battalion; John. S. Simmons, E. G. Wheeler Adjutant -- W. E. Beasley. ** from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell’s "For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand’) Page 32: ROSTER ROLLS FOR CB LOWE Page 33: Roster Rolls for GMD Lowe Page 34: BLACK HORSE CAVALY This is how CB and his brother could have looked in a similar picture Page 35: Southern Cross Recipients Page 36: Page 37: ROSTER ROLL OCTOBER 1864 GMD LOWE Page 38: Engaged in following battles-Documentation obviously engaged in many more GMB Lowe enlisted November 1861 Battle at Columbus, KY --- Nov 1861 Battle of Shiloh, TN --- April 6, 1862 Siege of Corinth, MS --- May , 1862 Battle at Franklin, TN --- April 10 , 1863 CB Lowe enlisted --- April 1864 Detail at Etowah, TN --- Oct. 1864 Atlanta Campaign --- Feb 4, 1864 Selma, Ala --- April 2, 1865 Surrender at Gainesville, Ala --- May 6, 1865 GMB and CB Lowe Released as POW’s May 19, 1865 Page 39: Attack by the confederates against Grant’sLine of supply at Holly Springs, MS. December 20, 1862 "The First Mississippi met a foe worthy of their steel in the Second Illinois Nerve was required to make and nerve required to receive that furious charge. Pistols in the hands of the Mississippians proved superior to sabers wielded by the hardy sons of Illinois, and the gallant Pinson, with his reckless Mississippians, finally vanquished and drove from the field the rough riders of Illinois." (Dr. J. G. Deupree, Miss. Hist. Soc., Vol. iv.) The remainder of VanDorn's command was likewise successful, and they set about the work of destroying the immense stores of supplies for Grant's army and the cotton that had been collected there, which occupied them until four in the evening. "On leaving Holly Springs, our command was the best equipped body of cavalry in the Confederate States service." This brilliant performance, with Forrest's operations further north, persuaded Grant to abandon his attempt to advance into the interior of Mississippi in support of Sherman's direct attack on the Vicksburg forces. Page 40: Battle April 10, 1863-Franklin,TN Armstrong and Whitfield, attempted to escape the rear attack by Forrest's Brigade, "Pinson's Regiment was moved in a direction to counteract this effort to escape. The enemy, upon this demonstration, returned to the crest of the hill," wrote General Martin, "when a courier informed me that the enemy had surrendered." In General Orders April 10, 1863, after the attack on Franklin, that day, Gen. W. H. Jackson said, "High mention is due the officers and men of the First Regiment Mississippi Cavalry for the dashing manner in which they charged and drove the enemy into their fortifications." Page 41: Attack Against Sherman-2/4/1864 When Sherman's Corps crossed the Big Black on the expedition from Vicksburg to Meridian, February 3, 1864, The first attack was made by Colonel Pinson and his regiment with one piece of artillery, February 4, at Col. Joseph Davis' place, and a spirited fight resulted The First Regiment being engaged in an attack near Meridian on the 14th, then moved toward Columbus to reinforce Forrest, then back towards Sherman's army at Canton. February 27, at Sharon, Starke's Brigade "encountered the enemy and fought them in gallant style." Jackson mentioned Pinson's Regiment as very successful in picking up the Federal foraging parties, bringing off nine wagons and fifteen prisoners. They followed Sherman as far as the Big Black, and then fell back near Livingston. Page 42: First Record of Captain Tobe Taylor-CB’s Company’s Captain Page 43: 1st Cavalry Regiment Formation-1862 Page 44: Cavalry Division-Siege of Atlanta -1864 Page 45: Military History of Mississippi (Lindsay/Pinson Cavalry) In October they took part in Hood’s campaign toward Chattanooga. Captain Taylor, with twenty-five men, was detailed to take up rails near the Etowah bridge to delay reinforcements for Allatoona during French’s attach, October 5, 1864 Note: Two of these twenty men must have been my Grand Daddy C B Lowe and his Brother George (GMD) Lowe. Page 46: Last Battle of the War—Selma, AL Armstrong’s Brigade held the line of works at Selma, Ala, April 2, 1865, which was carried by Wilson’s Cavalry expedition at a heavy cost in killed and wounded. The Colonel of the Seventh Indiana reported the capture of about “300 prisoners, including most of the First Mississippi and a large part of the Tenth”. General Forrest’s Cavalry were surrendered at Gainesville, Ala, May 22, 1865. Page 47: The Unions Rules of War Quote From Gen’l Sherman The government of the U.S. has any and all rights which they choose to enforce in war - to take their lives, their homes, their land, their everything...war is simply unrestrained by the Constitution...to the persistent secessionist, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better...Mjr. Gen. W. T. Sherman, Jan. 31, 1864 Page 48: War on Citizens of the CSA This war on citizens was not simply restrained to be applied against men and women but also children. Gen. Sherman in a June 21, 1864, letter to Lincoln's Sec. of War, Edwin Station wrote, "There is a class of people men, women and children, who must be killed or banished before you can hope for peace and order." Stanton replied, "Your letter of the 21st of June has just reached me and meets my approval." While the war on civilians started much earlier than 1864, the above is simply proof that the war on children was part of that scheme! Page 49: Grant on Prisoner Exchanges " It is hard on our men held in Southern prisons not to exchange them, but it is humanity to those left in the ranks to fight our battles. Every man released on parole or otherwise becomes an active soldier against us at once, either directly or indirectly. If we commence a system of exchange which liberates all prisoners taken, we will have to fight on until the whole South is exterminated." .....Gen. Grant, August 18, 1864 in a dispatch to Gen. Butler Page 50: Reconstruction Gov of Tennessee First Governor of TN In 1865, the Methodist Rev. William G. Brownlow of Knoxville became the carpet bagger Governor of Tennessee as head of the minority Radical Unionists. He immediately started a second civil war against returning Confederates. Earlier as editor of Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig, he was pro-southern and pro-slavery. He became a fanatical Unionist and was expelled to the North. He (Brownlow) encourages the people, wrote a diarist in late 1864, to kill their rebel neighbors wherever they find them, to do it without noise, secretly, but do it, and bury them in the woods like brutes. Brownlow's speeches so much pleased the Republicans that they invited him to go about repeating similar speeches to stir up the old soldiers to the fury of a second war on the South. "If I had the power," Parson Brownlow said, " I would arm and uniform in the Federal habiliments every wolf and panther and catamount and tiger and bear in the mountains of America; every crocodile in the swamps of Florida and South Carolina; every negro in the Southern Confederacy, and every devil in hell, and turn them on the rebels in the South, if it exterminated every rebel from the face of God's green earth ...Every man, woman and child south of the Mason Dixon line. I would like to see Richmond and Charleston captured by negro troops commanded by Butler the Beast. We will crowd the rebels into the Gulf of Mexico, and drown the entire race, as the devil rid the hogs in the Sea of Galilee. (Long and loud applause) "I am one of those who believes the war has ended too soon. We have whipped the rebels but not enough.....The second army of invasion will, as they ought to, make the entire South as God found the earth, without form and void. They will not, and ought not to, leave one rebel fence-rail, out house, one dwelling, in the eleven seceded states. As for the Rebel population, let them be exterminated. When the second war is wound up, which should be done with swift destruction, let the land be surveyed and sold out to pay expenses. "Let [the first army] them be the largest division, and do the killing. Let the second division be armed with pine torches and spirits of turpentine and, and let them do the burning! Let the third and last division be armed with surveyors' compasses and chains, that will survey the land and settle it with loyal people. "....'burn and kill! Burn and kill!" until the whole rebel race is exterminated." Page 51: ANDERSONVILLE Edward Wellington Boate was a soldier in the 42nd NY Inf. and a prisoner at Andersonville in 1864. He wrote of his experiences in the NY Times shortly after the war and commented on whom he held responsible for Andersonville’s legacy. "You rulers who make the charge that the rebels intentionally killed off our men, when I can honestly swear they were doing everything in their power to sustain us, do not lay this flattering unction to your souls. You abandoned your brave men in the hour of their cruelest need. They fought for the Union and you reached no hand out to save the old faithful, loyal and devoted servants of the country. You may try to shift the blame from your own shoulders, but posterity will saddle the responsibility where it justly belongs." The atrocities committed by the North against prisoners of war fill the pages of the Official Records of the War of Rebellion, but are carefully left out of the most "unbiased" accounts. ....Andersonville: The Southern Perspective edited by J.H. Segars, pg. 144-145 For more reading on what really happened at Andersonville, you can read a book by a POW who was there, "The True Story of Andersonville Prison" by Lt. James Madison Page, 6th MI Cav. Co. A. Page 52: Quote From Sherman About Union Atrocities Committed Against Civilians Sherman himself admitted after the war that he was taught at West Point that he could be hanged for the things he did. But in war the victors always write the history and are never punished for war crimes, no matter how heinous. Only the defeated suffer that fate. That is why very few Americans are aware of the fact that the unspeakable atrocities of war committed against civilians, from the firebombing of Dresden, the rape of Nanking, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to the World Trade Center bombings, had their origins in Lincoln’s war. This is yet another reason why Americans will continue their fascination with the War for Southern Independence. Thomas J. DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the author of, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War. Page 53: Extermination of Southerners In 1862 Sherman wrote his wife that his purpose in the war would be "extermination, not of soldiers alone, that is the least of the trouble, but the people" of the South. His loving and gentle wife wrote back that her wish was for "a war of extermination and that all [Southerners] would be driven like swine into the sea. May we carry fire and sword into their states till not one habitation is left standing." Page 54: Sherman Tactics Similar to Nazi’s in France Sherman was not above randomly executing innocent civilians as part of his (and Lincoln’s) terror campaign. In October of 1864 he ordered a subordinate, General Louis Watkins, to go to Fairmount, Georgia, "burn ten or twelve houses" and "kill a few at random," and "let them know that it will be repeated every time a train is fired upon." Page 55: Excellent Web Site for True History Recommended Reading http://www.plpow.com/ Recommended Reading: Nathan Bedford Forrest - In Search of an Enigma. A year in the South – 1865 A Confederate Soldier Page 56: The Confederate Soldier _____________ By L. J. WILSON, SURGEON CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY. Respectfully dedicated to the sons and daughters of the U. C. V. 1902. A careful study of the history of our country from the formation of the Federal Government in 1789,to 1860, shows beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the right of a Sovereign State to secede from the National Compact had never been doubted or gainsaid, and I desire in this last chapter, to impress upon the rising generation, the sons and daughters of Confederate veterans, the importance of studying carefully the "Causes of the Civil War," the importance of having your children study histories of our country, that give those causes fairly, honestly, truthfully, that they may be able to defend the actions of their fathers. Every United Confederate Veteran has heard the charge:"You fought your Government four long years for the negro." I want our children to know how to put their foot down intelligently and truthfully upon that great big falsehood. It is a lie, black and foul, and I want you to be able, at all times and anywhere, to give an intelligent reason, a correct historical reason for the faith that is within you. The other side fought for the negro. Had the Southern States a constitutional right to secede, and were they justifiable in doing so? I will give you a brief summary of facts, as contained in the history of the United States, prepared for our common schools by our Chaplain-General. Mr. Jones says, page 233: Page 57: Potential Speaker for Meetings GeorgiaName:William J. Hagin Home City:Richmond Hill, GA E-mail:moonrib@yahoo.com Phone No.:912-756-4449 Description:Clad in Confederate uniform, William gives a rousing Pt. Lookout program that will capture your attention as you learn not only the treatment of Pt. Lookout's prisoners, the condition of its camp, it's water & non food supply, but will also present a history on Southern Vs northern camps as far as deaths and percentages... complete with show-n-tell! William has been vigorously working on our "Missing Names Project" ...the federal government only gave us a list of 3384 names of those who perished while imprisoned at Pt. Lookout, yet prisoners' diaries proclaim that as many as 14,000 died there...and William has found many of their names! Hear his story of this enormous tedious search. Page 58: