Thursday, July 28, 2011

Andrew F. Gammell of the Second Texas Infantry

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 NPS Photo 2d Texas Infantry Regimental Monument Vicksburg National Military Park  The presidential election of 1860 caused quite a...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Visit to Sheridan, Montana - Bary Gammell

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Liz, on Tuesday afternoon Jan and I had a nice visit in Sheridan with our cousin Sandra Baril.  She showed us some locations related to G...
Friday, June 17, 2011

The End of the Utah Expedition and Camp Floyd

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In the months preceding the Civil War, James and his family were still living in Fairfield, Utah, near Camp Floyd.(1)  Two new babies were ...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Scrimshaw Engraved by William Gammell

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Kim Cox of Corpus Christi, Texas, sent these photos of a scrimshaw engraved by William Gammell, the brother of James Gammell.  (I had to ref...
Saturday, May 28, 2011

The Simpson Expedition to Uinta Valley

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James H. Simpson, 1857 (Wikimedia Commons) Just two months after James Gammell returned home from an expedition to the site of the Moun...
Friday, May 6, 2011

Mountain Meadows Massacre

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 Mountain Meadows, Utah (from Wikimedia Commons)    The massacre at Mountain Meadows (1857) in southern Utah was the next crimi...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

District Court Trials of 1858-59

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Two incidents that occurred in 1858 may have had some bearing on James Gammell’s November 14 excommunication from the Mormon Church.  On Jun...