Folly Beach has been asked by a group in the town of Hoosick, NY to participate in their campaign to honor Hoosick and Hoosick Falls residents who died in the Civil War. The group, with the help of Patriot Guard Riders, is having a brief ceremony and flying a flag nicknamed “Liberty” at the gravesites of their resident veterans throughout the south. They will assemble at 9 am at the Massachusetts 55th memorial in Folly River Park, and will fly Liberty from the Community Center flagpole (the pole nearest where records indicate that there were cemetaries on Folly). Please begin your weekend by joining them. Their records indicate that Albert S. Hall, 36 years old, died of disease in a hospital on Folly Island on September 18, 1863. He enlisted September 3, 1862, at Troy, NY to serve three years; mustered in as corporal, Co. I, October 6, 1862; returned to ranks, no date. He lived in the town of Hoosick until his enlistment. Hoosick and Hoosick Falls are in New York State, at the border next to Vermont and near Massachusetts. Folly Beach is the group’s first stop in South Carolina. They have flown the flag at cemetaries in Virginia and North Carolina, and plan ceremonies at all the 17 US cemetaries where their soldiers are buried. They have also made arrangements to fly Liberty over European cemetaries, and it has already been flown in Sicily, Italy.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:32:44 +0000
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