The Civil War, it can be such a small world.

Imagine my surprise when researching the Blish side (on my mother’s side) of my family when I see that the brother in-law (Capt Theodore Lane) of my relative, Alfred Day Blish, served under my great x3 grandmother’s Roxcenia (Butterfield) Dickisson (on my father’s side) brother’s (Charles Butterfield) regiment. Wow, that was a mouth full.  There was no easy way to type that all out without a chalk board, I’m limited to electronic pen and paper here.  And, he was mustered out in Missouri when my  great great grandfather John W. Cullimore (on my father’s side) was at Jefferson Barracks too. I was  researching Alfred and stumbled upon a lengthy section on his brother in-law and sister (Caroline Melissa Blish) in “Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Racine and Kenosha counties, Wisconsin: containing biographical sketches of business and professional men and of many of the early settled families”, J.H. Beers & Co, 1906.