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Post by Treasuredude on Sept 16, 2004 21:06:10 GMT -6
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Post by Lawtonka on Jun 3, 2005 19:19:05 GMT -6
Thanks, Nice Pictures. I had the great oppotunity to see it myself one back around '96 and Sandy Banard was hosting our group and telling his story. He also showed us the location down the hill at the train depot where the telegraph station once stood where the dispatch was sent to the world announcing the results of the battle. Interesting !
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Post by Allan on Jul 25, 2005 6:39:28 GMT -6
Does anyone know if Grant Marsh and Andrew Marsh were related? Andrew lived along the Missouri River at Winona, North Dakota, in the last half of the 1800s. Winona was located across from Ft. Yates and died soon after federal troops left Ft. Yates in 1895. Thanks, Allan
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Post by Scout7 on Jul 25, 2005 20:39:38 GMT -6
Grant Marsh lived here in Memphis for 9 years running a ferry boat from the mouth of the Wolf River across the Mississippi to the Arkansas side. This was several years after the Battle of the LBH...He then moved to St. Louis and ran a ferry there. I have the dates somewhere which I found in the library archives, a while back.
Scout
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Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 28, 2005 6:19:45 GMT -6
Here is an interesting tidbit concerning Grant Marsh. The reporter has his time frame wrong, which seems to be very common these days. The North Alabama went down in 1870, so Marsh obviously did not captain the Far West four years prior to that. A 260-ton steamboat built in Pittsburgh in the 1860s, the North Alabama was captained the day it was lost by Grant Marsh, who had found his fame four years earlier, when he transported wounded soldiers down from the Little Big Horn River, bringing with them the news of Gen. George Custer's defeat. For the entire story: www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051028/NEWS/510280333/1001 |
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