EP313: The 6 Brothers Who Gave Their Lives for the Union and A Tattoo Shop with Heart

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Our American stories.com. Some of our favorites. Next story from the Civil War was nearly forgotten to history John Busby of the culture buzz on KF MG 90.9 FM in our own Monty Montgomery story a lot of history although it deserves to be remembered and can easily be forgotten if people well forget about it then becomes almost like buried treasure waiting for someone to uncover delving into history is it's almost like beachcombing you never quite sure what you can find, but sometimes you find some incredible things and that's what happened over 10 years ago as a friend of mine now, Tom Woodruff, Eliza County, Iowa. He had a call from the widow of a boyhood friend of his who said that this friend's grandmother had put together scrapbook roughly went from the late 1800s to the first years 1900s and she knew it might be of interest to Tom because Tom is an amateur historian and so she is getting that scrapbook to Tom so of course what is he do, he sits down and he has to go through the entire scrapbook and they are on this 57 page scrapbook on page 23 was a little news clipping. It was from a 1907 Columbus Gazette newspaper and they were talking about the devastating toll.

The Civil War had and it talks specifically about the Littleton family were less fortunate when it came to losing people of the six brothers only one live to return and he shortly died of disease contracted service and right there. That was the flashpoint for Tom Woodruff to try and find out more about the six Littleton Brothers Tom had started working on this for a few years and a mutual friend of ours connecting me to Tom.

She knew that I love history that I did stories about history and she said I got a fairly you need to meet well. I met Tom Woodruff and the chase was on this to say what can we do to bring the story back to light because it was one of those profound stories that inspirational in service to country tragic in the total loss of the male lineage of a family. There were four sisters left from that family and many of the relatives, the descendents of those four sisters knew very little if anything about the six great great great uncles that they had at one time so that was kind of the genesis of getting involved with the Littleton Brothers story. We have a lot of missing puzzle pieces, some of the pieces we have are based in census record so number the Littleton family members were notated as the lotto the migration of the Littleton family. They originated from Maryland and it looks like James and Martha. They were the mother and father. They started toward moving west because they wanted more opportunity and their first four children Sarah, George, John and Thomas were born in Maryland. They probably left Maryland in late 1836 or so they ended up stopping in Ohio for a while to keep expanding their family.

So Ohio became home for the birth of William and then Mary then after Mary was born sometime after that between 1839 in 1841 they completed their migration to Iowa so when they got to the wise accounting around 1840 1841.

That is when the family completed its expansion. Rebecca was born in 1841 Camilla in 1843 and her twin brother Kendall same year. No one in 1845 and that completed the family trying to figure out why the Littleton brother served. That is where the best historical forensic researcher would really have a challenge. You could go to the newspapers, but there didn't seem to be a lot of information about the Littleton's in there so we really don't know but Iowa has kind of a Janice personality when it comes to the Civil War there were virtually no important battles fought in Iowa during the Civil War. But there was a sense of dedication and duty that the people who targeted Iowa as the place they were to sink their roots. They wanted to support that fierce patriotism that they seem to have and that's what Drawing so many people to enlist in the service from Iowa. I think that's part of what drove them into enlisting as they did.

Thomas was the first one to enlist. He enlisted in July 16 of 1861 he was in Company C, fifth Ohio infantry. Next was William Littleton, he enlisted in September 21, 1961. Company K, eighth Iowa infantry, the third Littleton brother to enlist with George Littleton. He was the oldest brother, he enlisted in 1862, and because he was working at the time in Illinois, he enlisted in Illinois three final brothers work in the Littleton John and no one, and those three brothers all enlisted on August 21, 1862 and served in Company F of the 19th Iowa infantry and their service was to be relatively short-lived and you been listening to John Busby tell the story of the little things little things lost all six of the boys in their family. The bloodline four sisters remained in so many of these stories are on hold until they're told your hand here on our American stories John Busby telling the story of the Littleton family and so many other families ravaged by the Civil War, the highest death count and all of the wars America has ever fought 600,000+ story continues aluminum brothers here on our American story books. If you love the stories we tell about this great country and especially the stories of America's rich past. Know that all of our stories about American history from war to innovation culture and faith brought to us by the great folks at Hillsdale College placement.

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At the outbreak of the Civil War. All six Littleton brothers would list the fight for the union and some of them see action Prairie Grove, Arkansas. Unfortunately it was that battle that took its greatest and quickest toll on the Littleton family in battle. Kendall died and was buried in a mass grave. There John was severely wounded in the thigh and he was transferred to Fayetteville, Arkansas, to hopefully recover. However, he died eight days later and was buried in an unmarked grave. There in the national Cemetery.

Chances are that you didn't die so much from his wounds as from the infection. No did survive the current Grove battle, but it was interesting on what happened to him. He shows that even accidents can happen in war and that's exactly what happened to know know what was part of a foraging group that's one thing that in the Civil War. The troops had to forage what was available in the land that they were crisscrossing was on a foraging trip that included ferrying goods that they acquired across the white River, which is down between Missouri and Arkansas during the time that they were carrying things though brains had kind of made the river turbulent.

There's a great passage here. This was a first-hand account by Timothy Phillips, a member of company a of the Iowa 19. Several days ago, nearly 100 men were sent out his guards to a four-inch train. They returned the day the new boat was built under the supervision Lieut. Faust the first light duty. The boat was considered Apple to carry 26 mule teams across loaded in a number of horsemen and footmen. The boat was unmanageable in passing to the center of the stream and sunk water pouring over the boat washing one team in several men from the boat chapter became submerged broke loose. The water was very cold and water setting from shore, may require superhuman strength, reach it while we as geezers could not render assistance, and the only witnesses of their death struggles one of those who perished was no Thomas the first to enlist. Ironically, fought more battles and served an actual, I guess you call combat situations than any of the other brothers. He fought in the battles of a hookah in Champion Hill. The siege of Vicksburg and Mission Ridge. And that's where he was captured when he was captured, he was sent to Andersonville Andersonville was located in Georgia and it was situated in a wide open field area just bare dirt ground there was very sluggish stream of terrible water did come through it a little bit not pure food rations were inconsistent at best. The prisoners were packed in.

If the disease was brought in by a prisoner could run rampant through the ranks of the prisoners there. It was a good logotype situation when word about what Andersonville was about got around to the Union army.

They knew that if any of their compatriots were sent Andersonville.

It was almost assuredly stamp and after 2 1/2 almost 3 years of captivity. That is when he died of chronic diarrhea in Andersonville and he ended up being buried at the Andersonville National. William was in company K file infantry was the second of the Littleton brothers to enlist the fought in the battles of Shiloh and he was wounded there.

Jackson in the siege of Vicksburg and that's where he contracted a disease disease. He would later die of like so many others in a St. Louis hospital. What happened to George.

George was in Company B of the 65th Illinois infantry. He did have a battle that was it a name. It's well-known as a battle at Harpers Ferry. He was captured and imprisoned briefly but in these early days there were prisoner exchanges the honor system what's in place where my side has this many prisoners we want to exchange for that many prisoners on your side and they will not go into combat for X number of months or something like that. George was reassigned after the person exchange and he was reassigned to Chicago where they had what was kind of the unions version of Andersonville. The winters were brutal and that is where he probably had pneumonia.

He did get back home and they live for a while longer. But he finally succumbed to the brutal toll that the military life. The diseases that he encountered took on his body and that's what made George become the sixth victim of the six Littleton brothers brother story resonates with me because it encompasses a national level of cross sectioning of what happened during the Civil War in a single-family you had all these brothers enlist in the war. All the sisters were married. Back home, some of the been multiple marriages because they outlive husbands things like that but with the brothers.

You have the diversity of ways that those who served perished. You had in battle you had wounded from battle and perished afterwords probably a combination of the wound and disease you had disease you had accident you had imprisonment you had all these different ways. In this microcosmic perspective of six brothers and that's where the tragedy is because these days, we don't think of having to endure this kind of tragedy in the Littleton brothers is is a special unequaled sacrifice tragedy that needs to come to light again in a good way to bring it to light would be a monument monument that only recently came about, even though the idea had been floating around for a long time that the wiser newspaper 100 years ago actually commented about this when they talked about the six brothers there needs to be memorial built to honor the lives of the six brothers from tools Borough and Liza County who all died as a result of volunteering to fight in the Civil War when it was dedicated on Flag Day June 14, 2016.

The keynote was delivered by Tom Lorraine who is exceptionally well known historian and scholar. He read something that has always stuck with me in his words. He quoted the Bible the hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and sent me in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones. He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor. The Valley bones were very dry. He asked me, Son of Man can these bones live in with that question begins. The Bible account of how Ezekiel watched dry bones take on a new life and in this story, the people of Israel are the dry bones would lost touch with her heritage, but who could live again if they recover that historical memory in a similar way, the Littleton brothers would not mean much to us today.

If we know them only through the bare-bones of the census record George John Thomas Kendall William and no one at a great job as always by Monty Montgomery on the production of the piece, and a special thanks to John Busby of the culture buzz on KF MG 99 sharing with us this remarkable story of the Liza County, Iowa family Littleton's in the Littleton brothers again. All six perished in the Civil War or just fair.

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Next we have a story brought to us. Thanks for the Cincinnati area Better Business Bureau Perry Harris and her husband run a tattoo shop in Cincinnati never awarded the BBB torch award celebrates business owners for their ethics. As Robin store Jimmy Harris was born and raised in Cincinnati Ohio I went to high school as a vocational school so they had like back in the day on the cash is amazing because they had like body art, cosmetology, martial art is what I was in because I was in dart seriously. My mom gave me my baby but not too long ago and it was the cutest same because I guess from the time I was born of an artist is even wrote in there like she want to be when she buys up or something.

Is that artist got pregnant at 17 baby when I got out of high school and I had a full scholarship to go. At the time it was the best our college in America pregnant. I realize it's not about me no more.

That's when I started working in a factory just to be able to take care of her because I didn't want to be on welfare and had other people take care of my choices in South I just started working factory to contaminated and it was really hard to single mom and I decided to go to college because my my high school art teacher was still contacting me and trying to get me to get a college scholarship is really upset when he found out I was pregnant I will go this thing comes first.

I had pretty much was going to school full time in the morning going home taking care of a baby from a bad training to and work third shift in the factory, so it was for a year and then my second year of college I started in but they said they had job placement when she graduated perfect is the fact that I work and it was a good factory.

Nothing fun started job that has something to do with what I love the second year they had a meeting with the teacher and explaining that the job placement everything I can ask what the job placement involves pain and you made decent money especially for me to be cost 1920 the nerve to look at me and said right this minute to go to college in your job placement is making copies for people like you have got to be kidding. So I was wondering how to get upset. Did you not understand like I am working myself to death to pay for this and take care of my baby to try to make my life better and you're telling me that you got it when I make three times that amount in factories or why not wasting my time and that's when I quit Maren my high school teacher. I mean the sunset because I quit taking my money and using the lake. I'm not okay with his back to the factory that Timmy found a husband and idea new career path. So that's when I started thinking about the tattooing process. Pretty cool way to my heart to use and it's cool back then it wasn't cool but I started going around the tattoo shop, talking on the tattoo owners about being an apprentice and they were extremely rated. Blake treated me like I was just garbage because I was a woman and when engine detaches 20 some years. So pretty much like when you're young you think that all tattoo artists are good people and tattoo shops are good tattooing and that is so wrong. We went shopping. We got messed up so there tattoo that is worse. You should not be ashamed of something that you permanently have on your body for the rest of your life like that is so into this a long time to find somebody that could fix the tattoo is incomparable.

We had so we spent a lot of time a lot of money with Damon. I became friends with his wife. Madden became friends with him.

He started hanging out as we became friends. So one night because my husband is 3 o'clock in the morning and were sleep and getting ready to go to work in the morning to the factory like answers the phone. I can hear the guy talking completely quiet and you want to do an apprenticeship to that's perfect because you said I couldn't get into it. He can learn and then once he gets God he can teach me and that would be my way of getting and that's exactly what happened. He tattooed for about two years he was on me and then two years later when I started doing my first tattoo and every day for 1870 stories and then I know what I'm talking about that experience to usually when you walk into a tattoo shop is a little young girl at the desk and she is pretty much aggravated that you walked in and bothered her attitude is as you walk in the door you just feel that negative energy.

Just like your bothering people usually want me to come in and what to take my money like okay that's a lot of that just like a lot of tattoo artist they had that godlike mentality. My husband he was like that and he pretty much would say somebody would come into the tattoo shop, and they would show us what they wanted something to that was unique and by the time they laughed, they had a completely different I thought you wanted to talk me out of it.

You had your heart set on it meant something to me because the tattoo artist scares on threatens just make them feel like they don't know what they're talking about and what you morning is stupid and I don't want to do know this is probably going on somebody's body. You should be doing exactly what they want to do.

We put all of our tattoo work on Facebook. That's how everybody sees our stop here and there, like everything in your portfolio.

Like everything in my portfolio, there is exactly what my client had a woman come in and she got one piece and it's like stick figures in different colors it with her kids drew it was that she was staying because her kids drew their family like if somebody got somebody mess them up. That's exactly what she wanted and it has meaning to them like, don't judge somebody's tattoo just because you think it's garbage because you don't know what a voice for listening to listening to Tammy Harris share the story of her going.

Being a single mom and just doing what she had to do to take care of her baby working the late shift in the factory pursuing your dream and it wasn't a gig at Kinko's. It was art, and ultimately tattoo artist but not an elite looking down snobbish tattoo artist and says this is the way one uses their artistic talents. Well take care of the wishes and dreams of the people getting tattoo when we come back more Tammy Harris's beautiful voice here on our American stores, this is Tori Johnny Witt 210 MG podcasts we have such a special episode brought to you by near attack ODT we recorded at iHeartRadio event windows down near attack ODT were magic pant 75 mg can help migraine sufferers still such an exciting event like window tango. I had one night I took minor attack ODT and I was present amazing time.

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So me and my husband mom and dad and I mean this is like 16, 17, 18, where their parents bring them and tell the parents of they want to get their first tattoo is where everybody can see the forearms, hands, I've had people wanting the next. For the first tattoo thinking and the first is you do for living there still is planning on doing have to think about that stuff. This one kid like when I was first learning so this is 15, 16 years ago he came and his mom until his mom wasn't too excited about it and he was 617 so we asking why he wanted writing across the game looking like a different letting on 40 planning on doing these as well. Coast Guard scar which is think for one minute. Military police those fields like a gang member is really not that hard. Another thing that kids don't understand is, yes, tattoos are more acceptable, but it depends on who your bosses surgical like tattoos and long sleeves. The whole time he worked there in the summer. Think for a minute. It's really not that hard to think that mom came in with what we did and we do this to a lot of people if they're not sure the stencil stencils on it to stay on for a couple days put it on him and say now on.

Get used to it being their family. Ask your friends equity think to see everybody's reaction. He still wanted in two days then come back and talk to his mom because the next thing to get it now like to shop and get right after we talked on and that's fine but I like to sleep at night. I had 19 come in the shop never met him before. He just came in and he says that it is Mother's Day so he says I went to my mom cool.

I want to do a cancer rather than for that sweet yes and he really big on his neck sides, bang and a smile in my lap and say his job that Wendy, my husband is dying.

Wendy is a good job like now that I understand you don't want to do it. Here's the thing. Mom's and I'm telling you right now my daughter came home with this huge tattoo on her beat her and find out who did it to her and he tell me I'm wrong right leg, just like we were just messing with him and he finally left as then you probably went down the street and got it mommy mad me yelling to me. No no no no no I don't want no nomad mama bears, and made him one of relationship with everywhere anywhere they know we are coming from you.

It's no shock when I look at you like. I was explaining some of the other danceable really doesn't make sense to me is Jermaine walking around tattoo on somebody if they had a good experience they're happy they're happy with the prize they will refer all of their family.

All of their friends so your clientele. Just quadrupled in one tattoo so why would you want to set personal all along because you have a good tattoo a couple people hear about it.

If you have a bad tattoo everybody hears about something. I just don't understand tattoo artist treat people like crappy districts in the mire here.

The one thing I do.

My husband is just my mind so I did.

This probably started at like four years ago when the second I had a woman come in and like it was hurt a bunch of friends and they were all getting tattoo she is explaining that she had an affect me and like apparently she had to have some different surgeries to get right and then she never got the nipples tattooed on and should show she asked me should I do you think you can do that now site a little, never done it before and like like that's gotta be perfect when you have to get colors right shape the size like oh my goodness, so I told her and shot never done before is about do it for free. Friday I'm scared that she is having problems with her thing was just one of the sticker on her, so she came and it was hilarious because my daughter was working the desk at the time, so whenever I do that is to say how I was told the girls like it has been. Thank you for your day off. He feels like that's disrespectful to me that the lady comes in and she just takes her, she's not shy at all, but learn is to go through that it's not personal them anymore, not bears to begin with so it's complete the difference so funny because I have several templates and a laser level leveler. That way I know they're perfectly even and I mark where I think they should be and I take the circle template and drop that the circles and have a look at it is the size like does that look like what they used to look like because this girl. She didn't remember it's been that long.

She was acting out even remember what they used to look like.

This is not easy.

So I drove all night teller and go show my daughter like does that look natural and my daughter is too high.

That is natural like you got a brand like mom do the whole process again and then it was good. Okay yeah and then at the most 1/2 an hour is the easiest thing she freaked out. She was standing in front of them like it changed her life. See how took her from being so insecure.

She was herself again. All that I did. It was one of my clients with her. I think that's how they related, has no tattoos at all. So what happened was she went to the surgeries and by this time it came time for her to get the tattoos done her insurance ran out and I can't remember how much she said they wanted but it was a pretty good penny so her knees gave her my info is out of town like now I do that for free. I tell her to get a hold of me. She got hold of me.

She came in and we did it and she cry.

She was like now I don't feel comfortable.

I won't even date like she had dated a couple years because of the tattoos on her like that completely change your life and the last time I think a great job on the production by rubbing a special thanks to Tammy Harris sharing her story with us all and stories of her customers to put the people first, the prophet will follow, like, I can't tell you how many times I've used people precisely because they tell me to go home and there was a repair that needed to be done in ethics and profit or not it more and they're not at odds. In fact, they complement each other. Tammy Harris's story.

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