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iThe PublicoForumU olfe ReminiscentEditor, The Messenger:For some reason, the other day the name of Harvey Linacott, former Hooper Ridge resident, came to my mind, together with some of the Civil War experiences he related in after years. Linacott returned from four years in the South with the famous 30th Ohio Regiment after taking part in some of the hardest campaigns of the war and was never wounded. *I recall he told of the Shenandoah Valley campaign In Virginia and the taking of a stronghold on the top of Lookout Mountain where the rebels had a fort which helped to bottle up the Union forcee. Two thousand Union soldiers cautiously made their way up the mountain side and dislodged the rebels, who were taken by surprise. The fort was well stocked with food and arms and its capture broke the rebel lines, and the food blockade. The rebel lose, Linecott said, in thla attack was hegwjr.Nick Blancit, a chum and neighbor of Linacott in Ames Township, was his particular buddy in tha army. Harvey told me once of Nick, who was a famous rifle shot, delaying to retreat when the rebelsmere advancing on them, wanting ^ to get in one more shot. He was of j captured and it was several months before he returned from a southern „ prison so emanciated that he could ct not resume active duty for a• long time,Harvey Llnscott returned to Athens County and bought the Aaron Evans farm, becoming a prosperous stock raiser and fruit grower. He was active in community affairs and became tha father of a progressive family of children. He answered the General Roll Call April 10 1928, at the age of 80 years andsleeps In Hooper Ridge Cemetery.E. V, WOLFE. Lower Plains, Jan 10. 193ft
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Athens Sunday Messenger
Athens, Ohio, US
Sun, Jan 13, 1935
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