{"id":43653,"date":"2018-11-27T11:46:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=43653"},"modified":"2022-05-04T11:40:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T15:40:33","slug":"wait-who-is-the-guy-in-the-civil-war-uniform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wait-who-is-the-guy-in-the-civil-war-uniform.html","title":{"rendered":"Wait, Who Is the Guy in the Civil War Uniform?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Family history is everywhere.<\/p>\n

My cousin recently posted family photos on Facebook of her ancestors \u2013 all veterans \u2013 who served over the years. I recognized all of them instantly as I already have these same photos in my family tree \u2013 all, that is, except one photograph.<\/p>\n

Who is the guy in the Civil War uniform?<\/p>\n

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Source: Kemp Family Tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I didn\u2019t recognize him, so I replied to her post on Facebook to learn more about his story. She told me it was her 2nd great-grandfather, John Tyler Webb (1841-1872)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She added:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe and his five brothers served through the war. They were a good portion of the brass section of the Regimental Band (the regiment changed numbers through the war \u2013 it was originally the 1st<\/sup>, then the 10th Maine, and finally the 29\/30th, which finished the war in Louisiana. John played Baritone, which we have.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His baritone horn has survived and been passed down in the family?<\/p>\n

Cool. So, I wrote her and asked for a photo. This is what she sent:<\/p>\n

\"Photo:<\/a><\/p>\n

Priceless \u2013 this is Allen Pierce Richmond (1921-2010)<\/a> as a boy playing that heirloom baritone horn.<\/p>\n

She also told me:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was [also] helping men in the regiment get new boots. His father was a bootmaker and John traced men\u2019s foot shape and mailed them home and Dad mailed back completed boots. John died after the war on a leather-buying trip to St Louis.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting.<\/p>\n

I checked GenealogyBank\u2019s Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a> to find articles on John Tyler Webb and I found these two articles.<\/p>\n

\"An
Source: GenealogyBank, Portland Daily Press (Portland, Maine), 19 December 1868, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This article reports that after the war, John was \u201cmanufacturing about 300 pairs [of boots] a day.\u201d The article goes on to say that he had a large operation with over 20 employees and that his father, Col. James Webb (1798-1882), \u201calthough over 70 years of age,\u201d was still manufacturing boots in the same location \u201cwhere he had been over 40 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The newspaper clipping also mentions his Civil War service and that of his brothers.<\/p>\n

I also found this obituary for him.<\/p>\n

\"An
Source: GenealogyBank, Portland Daily Press (Portland, Maine), 24 March 1873, page 2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is not always obvious, but Facebook is the largest family history Internet site online today. I use it constantly to communicate with cousins and to gather family history information and photos.<\/p>\n

Digging deeper, I wondered if I was related in any way to John Tyler Webb. So, I went to FamilySearch and looked at their \u201cView My Relationship\u201d feature \u2013 it quickly showed that we are 5th cousins. Click here<\/a> to see if you are related to John T. Webb of Bridgton, Maine.<\/p>\n

GenealogyBank is your source for documenting your family history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An article by Thomas Jay Kemp about identifying his relative John T. Webb, whom he noticed in an old photo wearing a Civil War uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12557],"tags":[453,12],"class_list":["post-43653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genealogy-stories","tag-american-civil-war","tag-genealogy"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/montage-1127-2018-featured-graphic-veterans.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84425,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43653\/revisions\/84425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}