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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 14944, member: 44"]>Wonder how it wound up in my neck of the woods...<</p><p><br /></p><p>If he had been from a Confederate state, I could understand the diary ending up in Canada. Many die-hard Southerners migrated to Mexico and to Canada after the war sooo not to live under northern, Yankee, rule. Remember me telling you about someone from the upper reaches of Saskatchewan(sp??) visiting us and only wanted to see Elvis' Graceland? Welll, his great great grandfather was a cotton merchant in Memphis and fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side. By 1870 he had moved his family to Canada - I think originally to Ontario and later to Winnipeg, Manitoba. </p><p><br /></p><p>As this solder was in the 28th Wisconsin Infantry, it is a bit more unusual. With Wisconsin almost bordering Canada, it does touch Lake Superior. There is a good chance he or descendants moved on up over the border for more or better land to farm.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a little info on Private Agen Bevin Dingman of the 28th Wisconsin infantry:</p><p><a href="http://civil-war-soldiers.findthebest.com/l/1442290/Agen-Bevin-Dingman" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://civil-war-soldiers.findthebest.com/l/1442290/Agen-Bevin-Dingman" rel="nofollow">http://civil-war-soldiers.findthebest.com/l/1442290/Agen-Bevin-Dingman</a></p><p><a href="http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=EE589C96-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=EE589C96-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A" rel="nofollow">http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=EE589C96-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Archbald Dingman was a noted Canadian known for oil wells... "oilfields surrounding Turner Valley, with the famed Dingman No. 1 well that hit pay dirt in 1914 heralding Alberta's first petroleum boom. ... Dingman formed the Calgary Petroleum Products Company in 1913, which drilled the Dingman No.1."</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 14944, member: 44"]>Wonder how it wound up in my neck of the woods...< If he had been from a Confederate state, I could understand the diary ending up in Canada. Many die-hard Southerners migrated to Mexico and to Canada after the war sooo not to live under northern, Yankee, rule. Remember me telling you about someone from the upper reaches of Saskatchewan(sp??) visiting us and only wanted to see Elvis' Graceland? Welll, his great great grandfather was a cotton merchant in Memphis and fought in the Civil War on the Confederate side. By 1870 he had moved his family to Canada - I think originally to Ontario and later to Winnipeg, Manitoba. As this solder was in the 28th Wisconsin Infantry, it is a bit more unusual. With Wisconsin almost bordering Canada, it does touch Lake Superior. There is a good chance he or descendants moved on up over the border for more or better land to farm. Here's a little info on Private Agen Bevin Dingman of the 28th Wisconsin infantry: [url]http://civil-war-soldiers.findthebest.com/l/1442290/Agen-Bevin-Dingman[/url] [url]http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-soldiers-detail.htm?soldierId=EE589C96-DC7A-DF11-BF36-B8AC6F5D926A[/url] Archbald Dingman was a noted Canadian known for oil wells... "oilfields surrounding Turner Valley, with the famed Dingman No. 1 well that hit pay dirt in 1914 heralding Alberta's first petroleum boom. ... Dingman formed the Calgary Petroleum Products Company in 1913, which drilled the Dingman No.1." --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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