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18 comments:
Wow, that is fanastic! Glad your friend sent you this tidbit on deaf during Civil War. Hope there will be more to come at some point.
Thank you, JohnABC for showing this interesting history piece!
Misha :D
Whoa..
1 inches damn close and will given him hanged but not! *whew* I'm glad he's saved!
Beautiful moves story..
wow..interesting history! thanks for sharing. hope to see more history on Deaf like this.
CJ
WOW!!
Thanks for sharing this!
Very moving/touching story!!!
Wow, it is a very interesting history! I am so thrilled that he was saved and was not hanged. He was the only 18 at that time. Thanks for sharing!
Real Fanastic , interesting history, hope more history story abt deafs , thanks for sharing smile....
Less a years ago I read that one so similiar and I have seen in somewhere in DR last time. I have not forgot that one of stories were accurated. but I never seen the picture of written.
Thank you for brought up for DR reader.
It is very historical related to everyone's heart touch.
Love it to learn deaf historical
Deaf Pixie
Boy, how touching that is. I kept thinkin, thanks goodness during the Civil War there was education of sign language or finger spelling for proof that he really is deaf. What if there was no invented of sign lang at that time???? He very lucky and blessed the right officer came along at the right time. whew.. can't get over with it. thanks for sharing.
whoa!!!! what a touching story....
WOW YOU FOUND MORE ABOUT DEAF HISTORY ABOUT CIVIL WAR REALLY IMPRESS WITH ME AND I FEEL AWSOME ABC FOUND MORE INFORMATION HISTORY AND KEEP UP MORE INFORMATION WHAT NEXT HISTORY DID YOU FIND IT ? WHISTLE SHOW THEM MAYBE DEAF CAN DO IT IN FUTURE WILL BE TECH DAMN. I LIKE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT IT AND HOW DID YOU FIND IT ?
Response to deaf navy usa: Got this info from someone who emailed me few days ago.
Hey ABC
Here is the more information see the link
http://library.gallaudet.edu/deaf-faq-us-civil-war.shtml
I really hate to disappoint you guys but the story about Joshua Davis nearly hung has been confirmed a myth and not true. I am the author of 'Silent Alarm; On The Edge With A Deaf EMT' (Gallaudet Press) and just completed my latest book, 'Land of Gallaudet; The Deaf Devil's Playground.' I will get to the point. After 20 years of research, there were NO deaf soldiers. They only served in the militia, homeguards, etc. (It is not the military) The only deaf soldiers were those who became deaf during the war from trauma and diseases. There were too many consistency in Joshua Davis' story and none of it fit the demographic and the geographic of said incident. It is natural for a deaf person, or a veterans, to come home and emblish or elebroate greatly on a story...in other words, stretching the truth. For example, a deaf man claimed to be in the army when in fact it was a homeguard outfit. In the deaf people's mind, anything with a uniform and a rifle is 'army' when it is far from it. I have the research docuemnts to back my work up. Always double check your fact before accepting it as the truth. I should know a thing or two about the military. After I retired from the fire department (Atlanta) I enlisted in the Georgia National Guards. I will send more information at a later time.
Unlike his northern deaf counterpart, a southern deaf-mute did not enlist into the Confederate army for patriotism, when it was for a job, three meals a day and a bunk to sleep on. They were most likely beggars and wanderers, refusing to stay in a local ‘poor house.’ They dreamed of faraway places, of adventures and traveled long distances to visit another school for the deaf, often times a handy way-station to eat, sleep and socialize with his deaf peers in town. They avoided officials and the Sheriff for fear of being sent to the asylum. More than two could not congregate. They were not allowed as passengers on a ship without posting a bond. Some had the misfortune to have been forced into a freak show and displayed. They prefer to steal than to beg. They were very street wise.
In the North, it was difficult for a deaf-mute to enlist in the Union Army, unless he enlisted in the next state to avoid recognition, and only if he possessed some residual hearing and lip-reading skills. He would enlist purely for patriotism, his sense of duty to his country and having the desire to return home to his own deaf community from a distant battlefield with honor. He was most likely to be a student of a school for the deaf. The profiling of the two deaf-mutes, North and South, enlisting in different causes, exemplified the real difference in the quality of deaf education and the mentalities. One was smarter than the other, but the southern deaf-mute was a survivor.
Less than 90,000 disabled, blind in one eye, deaf in one ear or both, the crippled on crutches, the idiots, mentally-challenged and the old enlisted in the Confederate Army in late 1861. The Confederate government allowed enlistments for anyone so long as the recruit could stand on one leg, a tooth to tear cartridges and still had a trigger finger. The Confederate Army initially thought the Civil War would be a ‘standing war’ with no movements or advancements.
Why did he move to Texas
vanessa....I don't know why he moved to Texas and I think he wanted to become a famrer at Texas.
If someone's interested: I've just read about a unit of deaf soldiers in Polish Home Army during WW II, only a few tens of people however. They started from delivering messages,traficking guns etc. ( Germans didn't expect that deaf people could be involved in any suspicious activities) and finished as regularly fighting soldiers during the Warsaw Uprising. What interesting, almost all survived - and they were in most dangerous actions. Here you can see how they looked http://blogbiszopa.blog.onet.pl/Wola-walki-silniejsza-od-kalec,2,ID415204648,n
To Anonymous on October 6, 2010 6:57 AM......Thank you for share the information about deaf soldiers.
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