Civil War Volunteers

Historic cemetery in Rosemead offers new peek into Civil War era

Cemetery volunteers are revealing that history with new placards detailing the lives of wagon train travelers, Civil War veterans and vigilantes for which the cemetery is the final resting place.

Volunteers began placing the placards by the graves of historical figures last week.

"If you walk through here you'll notice people buried who have the names of the streets," said Janice White, treasurer for El Monte Cemetery Association.

James Durfee, a landowner, active community member and school district trustee for whom Durfee Avenue is named, is buried there.

So is Andrew J. King, who at the mere age Janice Wiggins White, Treasurer of the Savannah Memorial Park El Monte Cemetery Association with Andrew J. King's new placard on Tuesday, June 28, 2011. The Savannah Memorial Park Cemetery in Rosemead has been installing biographical headstone placards showcasing some of the San Gabriel Valley's prominent and infamous settlers. (Mike Mullen / Staff) of 15 hunted down and killed his father's murderer. As an adult, King went on to become a county judge of Los Angeles in 1868 and lived to be 90.

About 100 veterans of the Civil War are buried there as well, volunteers said. So far volunteers have identified the graves of about 20 — 10 from the Union and 10 from the Confederacy.

The area was a hotbed for Civil War activity, said Margaret Alley, of Montebello, a volunteer researcher.

Civil War soldiers began forming military camps in the San Gabriel Valley until the state forbade them to do so in order to remain neutral, said Donna Crippen, El Monte Historical Museum curator.

And after the war, many veterans came west in an effort to start a better life in the fertile Californian climate, Alley said. Wagon trains began arriving in 1849, the first led by Ira Thompson, who was buried at the cemetery after his 1866 death. He also now has a placard telling that history.

The placards cost about $100 each and were purchased with donations and money from fundraisers.

Volunteers are inviting residents to tour the cemetery, at 9263 Valley Blvd. following Rosemead's 10 a.m. Independence Day parade. For information, call 626-287-4838.

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I must say I admire your penchant for constantly linking to stories that flatly contradict what you have just asserted to be the case (such as those links that show Seumas Milne revelling in Taliban atrocities, or Jeremy Corbyn extolling the virtues of Ghaddafi). It indicates a ludic sense of postmodern irony that is not always apparent from your immediate self-presentation. But given that you think Ryan’s role as a collaborator is beyond serious dispute, do you think you could provide a link that would support his contention, rather than one that seriously disputes it?

Holy One, try this for a ludic sense of postmodern irony :

http://www.ucdpress.ie/pdfs/Frank%20Ryan%20Irish%20Catholic%20review%20Feb%202011.pdf

But, in any case the following from the article I previously linked to and that you allude to rather undermines your case (though, I suspect we have a disagreement about what “collaboration” actually means):

“By the end of 1940 Ryan’s health had recovered to the extent that he became functional again. If Veesenmayer had any hopes of sending Ryan as a liaison to Ireland in the winter of 1940 before the plans for an invasion of Britain had been completely shelved, the character of the role that Ryan might have played was quite different from that of Russell. It is strange how McGarry omits the evidence that shows this clearly to have been the case – the post-war British interrogation of Kurt Haller. For Ryan had indeed decided to become an agent – not, however, on behalf of Germany, but on behalf of Ireland itself.While Russell had asked for German support for an invasion IRA in Northern Ireland (and to hell with the consequences for de Valera and Southern Ireland), the version of "Operation Dove", which envisages a role for Ryan was totally different. McGarry himself wrote that in the event of a German invasion of Britain the status of Northern Ireland would have to win.It would have been perfect for Valera logic to assert its claim to the North with the help of German weapons rather than accept it is a continuing British rule threatened to invade the South itself, or an extension of the German occupation of Britain in Northern Ireland. However, the Haller interrogation reveals that Ryan had completely subverted Russell’s own strategy with the stipulation that there could be no question of any such German assistance being given without the expressed approval of de Valera himself and that the IRA should in the meantime desist from sabotage operations and confine its activities to agitation and propaganda.

The Civil War journal of Lt. Russell M. Tuttle, New York Volunteer Infantry

American Civil War armies, Volunteer militia

The Civil War

The Civil War

Colorado Territory Civil War volunteer records, a comprehensive index to the twelve volumes of military clothing books found in the Colorado State Archives : containing the historical background of the volunteers of Colorado Territory during the Civil War Period, 1861-1865