A REAL DAUGHTER

ESTELLA LOWE RAITERI

DAUGHTER OF C.B. LOWE

 Memphis Press --- 1959
My Uncle Robert Claims to be the youngest
Son of Confederate Veteran
The Real Deal

STELLA
LOWE
RAITERI
 STELLA LOWE FALL 2008

Young Stella Lowe Stella Lowe Raiteri at age 87

 Pictures of Estella Lowe Raiteri

Mother Just After Her Birthday With Great Grandchild

 ESTELLA LOWE RAITERI
™ BORN JANUARY 10, 1922
™ HER MOTHER DIED 1927 She was 5 years old
™ HER FATHER DIED 1933 She was 11 years old
™ RAISED BY HER HALF SISTER (Althea Wallace)
AND GRANDMOTHER Smith
™ MARRIED AT AGE 16 TO CHARLES RAITERI
™ MOTHER TO SIX CHILDREN AGES 52-70 YEARS
OLD.
™ She IS 87 YEARS OLD TODAY AND HEALTHY
™ RECENTLY RECOVING FROM A BROKEN HIP IN
JANUARY 2008
Varina Howell Davis Chapter #2559
Horn Lake, MS

Shannon Bullard-President
CB LOWE’S MEMORIAL SERVICE
C B Lowe’s memorial Service by UDC Varina Howell Davis
Chapter #2559, Horn Lake, MS
Memorial Service—November 1, 2008
TWENTY ONE GUN SALUTE
MEMORIAL SERVICE
 MEMORIAL SERVICE for CB Lowe

Shannon (Sister) Pam Dad Mom Me

GUSSIE AND SHANNON
Letter from State Senator
A Visit from Ladies of Jefferson Davis Chapter 2191
 GUSSIE SCOTT, WALLACE, LOYD, LOWE

™Gussie Lowe – Born 1887

™Married to Wallace - 1901

™Married to Loyd - 1903

™Married to Loyld 1906

™Married CB Lowe 1912

™Bore Four Children – One with

Wallace and three with CB Lowe

™Died 1927

Died age 40-- Pneumonia

CASHUS BRUTUS LOWE—C B LOWE
™ ONE OF 10 CHILDREN FROM JANE AND JESSE LOWE
™ BORN 1848 DIED 1933 AT AGE 86
™ MARRIED THREE TIMES-DIVORCED TWICE
™ FATHERED 3 SONS WITH FIRST WIFE LAGANA. HE WAS
32 AND SHE WAS 31
™ MARRIED KATIE - SHE WAS 21- HE THE AGE OF 51 in
1897 AND FATHERED THREE MORE SONS WITH KATIE
™ DIVORCE FROM KATIE IN 1911
™ MARRIED GUSSIE SCOTT in 1912 – SHE WAS 25, HE
WAS 64
™ FATHERED TWO SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER (MY
MOTHER) WITH GUSSIE SCOTT LOWE FROM
AGE 65-75 AND STILL GOING STRONG
CENSUS DATA 1850
SLAVEHOLDER RECORDS 1850
Slaves of Jesse Lowe-Father of CB Lowe
Age Gender Race Slave Owner County, State

44 Male Black Jesse Lowe Lafayette, MS

28 Female Black Jesse Lowe Lafayette, MS
25 Female Black
24 Male Black
20 Male Black
18 Male Black
16 Male Black
14 Female Black
9 Female Black
7 Female Black
5 Female Black
3 Female Black
2 Female Black
2 Female Black
0 Female Black
CENSUS DATA 1860
Census Data 1870
Census Date 1880
Census Data --1900
Census Data 1910 Where is CB?
Census Data --1920
C B LOWE AT 70 and Family

Althea Wallace

C B Lowe

Joe Lowe

Gussie Scott Lowe

Robert Lowe
Gussie Wallace ( Lowe)
CB Lowe and Son Joseph Lowe
APPLICATION FOR PENSION
GEORGE AND C B LOWE WAR DATA

™ GMD (16) ENLISTED NOV 1861 IN PANOLA, MS

AND SERVED IN 1ST MISSISSIPPI CAVALRY
™ CB LOWE (15) ENLISTED MARCH 1864 IN
PANOLA, MS AND SERVED IN 1st MS CAVALRY
™ CB AND GMB LOWE SURRENDERED IN MAY
1865 WITH NB FORREST
™ CB’S OFFICERS WERE CAPTIAN TOBE TAYLOR,
COL R A PENSON, General N B FORREST
™ POW MAY 4, 1865
™ Paroled May 19, 1865
 1st Mississippi Cavalry
(Lindsay’s/Pinson’s)

™ Company A -- Carroll Rangers (raised in Carroll County, MS)

™ Company B -- Thompson Cavalry (raised in Lafayette County, MS)
™ Company C -- Panola Cavalry (raised in Panola County, MS)
™ Company D -- Tillatoba Grays (raised in Tallahatchie & Yalobusha
Counties, MS)
™ Company E -- Polk Rangers (raised in Calhoun, Lafayette, & Pontotoc
Counties, MS)
™ Company F -- Darden Rangers, also the Noxubee Troopers (raised in
Noxubee County, MS)
™ Company G -- Noxubee Cavalry Company (raised in Noxubee County,
MS)
™ Company H -- Bolivar Troop (raised in Bolivar County, MS)
™ Company I -- Pontotoc Dragoons (raised in Pontotoc County, MS)
™ Company K -- Pontotoc Dragoons No. 2 (raised in Pontotoc County,
MS)
™
™ Colonels -- Andrew J. Lindsay, R. A. Pinson. Lieutenant-Colonels --
John H. Miller, resigned; F. A. Montgomery. Majors -- D. C. Herndon,
of battalion; John. S. Simmons, E. G. Wheeler Adjutant -- W. E.
Beasley.
** from Dunbar Rowland’s "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898"; company listing
courtesy of H. Grady Howell’s "For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand’)
ROSTER ROLLS FOR CB LOWE
Roster Rolls for GMD Lowe
 BLACK HORSE CAVALY

This is how CB and his brother could have looked in a similar picture
Southern Cross Recipients
ROSTER ROLL OCTOBER 1864
GMD LOWE
Engaged in following battles-Documentation
obviously engaged in many more
™ GMB Lowe enlisted November 1861
™ Battle at Columbus, KY --- Nov 1861
™ Battle of Shiloh, TN --- April 6, 1862
™ Siege of Corinth, MS --- May , 1862
™ Battle at Franklin, TN --- April 10 , 1863
™ CB Lowe enlisted --- April 1864
™ Detail at Etowah, TN --- Oct. 1864
™ Atlanta Campaign --- Feb 4, 1864
™ Selma, Ala --- April 2, 1865
™ Surrender at Gainesville, Ala --- May 6, 1865
™ GMB and CB Lowe Released as POW’s May 19, 1865
Attack by the confederates against Grant’sLine of supply
at Holly Springs, MS. December 20, 1862

"The First Mississippi met a foe worthy of their steel in the Second
Illinois Nerve was required to make and nerve required to receive that
furious charge. Pistols in the hands of the Mississippians proved superior
to sabers wielded by the hardy sons of Illinois, and the gallant Pinson,
with his reckless Mississippians, finally vanquished and drove
from the field the rough riders of Illinois." (Dr. J. G. Deupree, Miss.
Hist. Soc., Vol. iv.) The remainder of VanDorn's command was likewise
successful, and they set about the work of destroying the immense
stores of supplies for Grant's army and the cotton that had been
collected there, which occupied them until four in the evening. "On
leaving Holly Springs, our command was the best equipped body
of cavalry in the Confederate States service."
This brilliant performance, with Forrest's operations further
north, persuaded Grant to abandon his attempt to advance into
the interior of Mississippi in support of Sherman's direct attack
on the Vicksburg forces.
 Battle April 10, 1863-Franklin,TN
† Armstrong and Whitfield, attempted to escape the
rear attack by Forrest's Brigade, "Pinson's Regiment
was moved in a direction to counteract this effort to
escape. The enemy, upon this demonstration,
returned to the crest of the hill," wrote General
Martin, "when a courier informed me that the enemy
had surrendered." In General Orders April 10, 1863,
after the attack on Franklin, that day, Gen. W. H.
Jackson said, "High mention is due the officers
and men of the First Regiment Mississippi
Cavalry for the dashing manner in which they
charged and drove the enemy into their
fortifications."
Attack Against Sherman-2/4/1864

† When Sherman's Corps crossed the Big Black on the

expedition from Vicksburg to Meridian, February 3,
1864, The first attack was made by Colonel
Pinson and his regiment with one piece of artillery,
February 4, at Col. Joseph Davis' place, and a spirited
fight resulted The First Regiment being engaged in an
attack near Meridian on the 14th, then moved toward
Columbus to reinforce Forrest, then back towards
Sherman's army at Canton. February 27, at Sharon,
Starke's Brigade "encountered the enemy and fought
them in gallant style." Jackson mentioned Pinson's
Regiment as very successful in picking up the
Federal foraging parties, bringing off nine
wagons and fifteen prisoners. They followed
Sherman as far as the Big Black, and then fell back
near Livingston.
† First Record of Captain Tobe Taylor-CB’s Company’s Captain
1st Cavalry Regiment Formation-1862
Cavalry Division-Siege of Atlanta -1864
 Military History of Mississippi
(Lindsay/Pinson Cavalry)
In October they took part in Hood’s
campaign toward Chattanooga.
Captain Taylor, with twenty-five
men, was detailed to take up rails
near the Etowah bridge to delay
reinforcements for Allatoona during
French’s attach, October 5, 1864

Note: Two of these twenty men must have been my Grand Daddy
C B Lowe and his Brother George (GMD) Lowe.
Last Battle of the War—Selma, AL
† Armstrong’s Brigade held the line of works
at Selma, Ala, April 2, 1865, which was
carried by Wilson’s Cavalry expedition at a
heavy cost in killed and wounded. The
Colonel of the Seventh Indiana reported the
capture of about “300 prisoners, including
most of the First Mississippi and a large
part of the Tenth”. General Forrest’s
Cavalry were surrendered at Gainesville,
Ala, May 22, 1865.
The Unions Rules of War
Quote From Gen’l Sherman
The government of the U.S. has any
and all rights which they choose to
enforce in war - to take their lives,
their homes, their land, their
everything...war is simply
unrestrained by the Constitution...to
the persistent secessionist, why,
death is mercy, and the quicker he or
she is disposed of the better...Mjr.
Gen. W. T. Sherman, Jan. 31, 1864
War on Citizens of the CSA

This war on citizens was not simply restrained to be

applied against men and women but also children.
Gen. Sherman in a June 21, 1864, letter to Lincoln's
Sec. of War, Edwin Station wrote, "There is a class
of people men, women and children, who must be
killed or banished before you can hope for peace and
order." Stanton replied, "Your letter of the 21st of
June has just reached me and meets my approval."
While the war on civilians started much earlier than
1864, the above is simply proof that the war on
children was part of that scheme!
 Grant on Prisoner Exchanges

" It is hard on our men held in Southern

prisons not to exchange them, but it is
humanity to those left in the ranks to fight
our battles. Every man released on parole
or otherwise becomes an active soldier
against us at once, either directly or
indirectly. If we commence a system of
exchange which liberates all prisoners
taken, we will have to fight on until the
whole South is exterminated." .....Gen.
Grant, August 18, 1864 in a dispatch to
Gen. Butler
 Reconstruction Gov of Tennessee
First Governor of TN
™ In 1865, the Methodist Rev. William G. Brownlow of Knoxville became the carpet bagger
Governor of Tennessee as head of the minority Radical Unionists. He immediately started a
second civil war against returning Confederates. Earlier as editor of Brownlow’s Knoxville
Whig, he was pro-southern and pro-slavery. He became a fanatical Unionist and was expelled
to the North.
™ He (Brownlow) encourages the people, wrote a diarist in late 1864, to kill their rebel
neighbors wherever they find them, to do it without noise, secretly, but do it, and
bury them in the woods like brutes.
™ Brownlow's speeches so much pleased the Republicans that they invited him to go about
repeating similar speeches to stir up the old soldiers to the fury of a second war on the South.
™ "If I had the power," Parson Brownlow said, " I would arm and uniform in the Federal
habiliments every wolf and panther and catamount and tiger and bear in the mountains of
America; every crocodile in the swamps of Florida and South Carolina; every negro in the
Southern Confederacy, and every devil in hell, and turn them on the rebels in the South, if it
exterminated every rebel from the face of God's green earth ...Every man, woman and
child south of the Mason Dixon line. I would like to see Richmond and Charleston
captured by negro troops commanded by Butler the Beast. We will crowd the rebels into
the Gulf of Mexico, and drown the entire race, as the devil rid the hogs in the Sea of Galilee.
(Long and loud applause)
™ "I am one of those who believes the war has ended too soon. We have whipped the
rebels but not enough.....The second army of invasion will, as they ought to, make the
entire South as God found the earth, without form and void. They will not, and ought not to,
leave one rebel fence-rail, out house, one dwelling, in the eleven seceded states. As for the
Rebel population, let them be exterminated. When the second war is wound up, which should
be done with swift destruction, let the land be surveyed and sold out to pay expenses.
™ "Let [the first army] them be the largest division, and do the killing. Let the second division be
armed with pine torches and spirits of turpentine and, and let them do the burning! Let the
third and last division be armed with surveyors' compasses and chains, that will survey the
land and settle it with loyal people.
™ "....'burn and kill! Burn and kill!" until the whole rebel race is exterminated."
 ANDERSONVILLE

™ Edward Wellington Boate was a soldier in the 42nd NY Inf. and a

prisoner at Andersonville in 1864. He wrote of his experiences in
the NY Times shortly after the war and commented on whom he
held responsible for Andersonville’s legacy.
™ "You rulers who make the charge that the rebels intentionally
killed off our men, when I can honestly swear they were
doing everything in their power to sustain us, do not lay this
flattering unction to your souls. You abandoned your brave
men in the hour of their cruelest need. They fought for the Union
and you reached no hand out to save the old faithful, loyal and
devoted servants of the country. You may try to shift the blame
from your own shoulders, but posterity will saddle the
responsibility where it justly belongs."
™ The atrocities committed by the North against prisoners of war fill
the pages of the Official Records of the War of Rebellion, but are
carefully left out of the most "unbiased" accounts.
™ ....Andersonville: The Southern Perspective edited by J.H. Segars,
pg. 144-145
™ For more reading on what really happened at Andersonville, you
can read a book by a POW who was there, "The True Story of
Andersonville Prison" by Lt. James Madison Page, 6th MI Cav. Co.
A.
 Quote From Sherman About Union
Atrocities Committed Against Civilians
™ Sherman himself admitted after the war that he was taught
at West Point that he could be hanged for the things he
did. But in war the victors always write the history and
are never punished for war crimes, no matter how
heinous. Only the defeated suffer that fate. That is why very
few Americans are aware of the fact that the unspeakable
atrocities of war committed against civilians, from the
firebombing of Dresden, the rape of Nanking, Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, to the World Trade Center bombings, had their
origins in Lincoln’s war. This is yet another reason why
Americans will continue their fascination with the War for
Southern Independence.
™ Thomas J. DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola
College in Maryland. He is the author of, The Real Lincoln: A
New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an
Unnecessary War.
Extermination of Southerners

In 1862 Sherman wrote his wife that

his purpose in the war would be
"extermination, not of soldiers alone,
that is the least of the trouble, but the
people" of the South. His loving and
gentle wife wrote back that her wish
was for "a war of extermination and
that all [Southerners] would be driven
like swine into the sea. May we carry
fire and sword into their states till not
one habitation is left standing."
Sherman Tactics Similar to Nazi’s in France

Sherman was not above randomly

executing innocent civilians as part of
his (and Lincoln’s) terror campaign.
In October of 1864 he ordered a
subordinate, General Louis Watkins,
to go to Fairmount, Georgia, "burn
ten or twelve houses" and "kill a few
at random," and "let them know that
it will be repeated every time a train
is fired upon."
 Excellent Web Site for True History
Recommended Reading

http://www.plpow.com/

Recommended Reading:
™ Nathan Bedford Forrest - In Search of an
Enigma.

™ A year in the South – 1865

™ A Confederate Soldier
The Confederate Soldier
_____________
By L. J. WILSON,
SURGEON CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY.

Respectfully dedicated to the sons and daughters of the U. C. V. 1902.

™ A careful study of the history of our country from the formation of

the Federal Government in 1789,to 1860, shows beyond the shadow
of a doubt, that the right of a Sovereign State to secede from
the National Compact had never been doubted or gainsaid,
and I desire in this last chapter, to impress upon the rising
generation, the sons and daughters of Confederate veterans,
the importance of studying carefully the "Causes of the Civil
War," the importance of having your children study histories of our
country, that give those causes fairly, honestly, truthfully, that they
may be able to defend the actions of their fathers.
™ Every United Confederate Veteran has heard the charge:"You fought
your Government four long years for the negro."
™ I want our children to know how to put their foot down intelligently
and truthfully upon that great big falsehood. It is a lie, black and
foul, and I want you to be able, at all times and anywhere, to give an
intelligent reason, a correct historical reason for the faith that is
within you. The other side fought for the negro. Had the Southern
States a constitutional right to secede, and were they justifiable in
doing so? I will give you a brief summary of facts, as contained in the
history of the United States, prepared for our common schools by our
Chaplain-General. Mr. Jones says, page 233:
 Potential Speaker for Meetings
™ GeorgiaName:William J. Hagin Home City:Richmond Hill, GA
E-mail:moonrib@yahoo.com Phone No.:912-756-4449

™ Description:Clad in Confederate uniform, William gives a rousing

Pt. Lookout program that will capture your attention as you learn
not only the treatment of Pt. Lookout's prisoners, the condition of
its camp, it's water & non food supply, but will also present a
history on Southern Vs northern camps as far as deaths and
percentages... complete with show-n-tell! William has been
vigorously working on our "Missing Names Project" ...the federal
government only gave us a list of 3384 names of those who
perished while imprisoned at Pt. Lookout, yet prisoners' diaries
proclaim that as many as 14,000 died there...and William has
found many of their names! Hear his story of this enormous
tedious search.