Memorial Day Names: Shiloh & Sheridan

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My Josie was born on May 27, so at least once every 7 years her birthday will be on Memorial Day. I think it’s neat, birthdays on Holidays. (they sort of run in the family. My Pop was Valentines Day, ‘I have two cousins born on Xmas, a pair [twins] on Easter and yet another cousin on the 4rh of July!)

I’m also fascinated by the Civil War and find a lot of things from the late 1800′s quite appealing. From the Union list: August, Cassius, Pleasant, Truman & Ulysses appeal.
From the Confederate list I like: Bee, Berry, Fraser, Frost, Graham, Maxby, Perry, Quinby, Ripley, Sorrel & Sweeny. Of the place names, Auburn & Marietta appeal, even though place names generally don’t appeal to me.

I could happily name two boys & a girl: August, Perry & Marietta!

Awesome list!

I had ancestors who were captured at Shiloh, so I think maybe we’d have to skip that one, although I think it’s a cool name.

I don’t remember which side, but there was an Ambrose, too.
Also, Robert E. Lee.
Also, Armistead was a last name.

The only reason I know this stuff is because we recently learned about the Civil War, and read a book about it, “Killer Angels.”

One of my favorite Civil War names is Wade Hampton. (Wade Hampton III was a Confederate cavalry leader.) Both Wade and Hampton would make great first names!

I developed a crush on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain when we studied Gettysburg in high school, but he was still a colonel at that battle, I think. I know ‘Chamberlain’ is kind of clunky as a first name, but he was super hot. Maybe ‘Chamberlain’ would make a nice middle name.

I like the Civil Wars name of Beauregard. Melanie Wilkes named her son this Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind.I also like the name Lovejoy , a place name in this same novel.Lovejoy for a girl as a middle name is how I would use it It has such a lovely meaning to it for a new parent.

How could you leave off Sherman????? I had an ancestor who named one of his kids Sherman Tecumseh William. Also, from the other side, Wheeler, for Fightin’ Joe Wheeler.

As for Sherman, just a matter of taste, I’m afraid–couldn’t include them all. But Wheeler’s a good one.

Scarlett O’Hara named her boy Wade Hampton Hamilton because, as Margaret Mitchell noted, it was stylish to name sons after their father’s commanding officers. Maybe that could be a naming inspiration for those with ancestors in the Civil War.

My grandpa is named Robert after his father’s commanding officer.