{"id":1333,"date":"2012-03-30T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:03:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:03:38","slug":"stacker-lee-confederate-calvary-saber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Stacker Lee Confederate calvary saber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_1334\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Stacker-Lee-sword-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1334\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1334\" title=\"Stacker-Lee-sword-1\" src=\"http:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Stacker-Lee-sword-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Stacker-Lee-sword-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Stacker-Lee-sword-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacker Lee Confederate calvary saber<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">The 150th annivesary rememberance of the Battle of Shiloh also known as the Battle of Pittsburg landing, will be celebrated over the next week at the Shiloh National Park.\u00a0 Stacker Lee on March 15 1864 enlisted as a 16 year old Private in Co. A McDonalds Tn. Cavalry in Tupelo Mississippi and on May 4th 1865 surrendered with Nathan Bedford Forrest&#8217;s cavalry at Citronelle Alabama. On May 11th 1865 he was paroled and made his way back to Memphis.\u00a0 \u00a0This information was provided by William O&#8217;Keefe whose great great grandfather was\u00a0a brother of James Lee Sr.\u00a0\u00a0The book Memphis Down in Dixie recounts Stacker&#8217;s involvement in the Civil War.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Stacker worked for the Lee Line Company and served as Captain of the JAMES LEE (first).\u00a0 The ballad about a bad rouster named Stagger Lee likely had its origin in the reputation of Stacker Lee who had a far different temperment than his scholarly older brother James Lee Jr.\u00a0\u00a0 Stacker contracted Yellow Fever during one of\u00a0several outbreakes\u00a0that ravaged Memphis in the 1870&#8217;s.\u00a0 He died in 1890 leaving one son Samuel Stacker Jr. who moved to California with his mother sometime shortly after his fathers passing.\u00a0\u00a0 Stacker&#8217;s saber belongs to my cousin Marcus Lee.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 150th annivesary rememberance of the Battle of Shiloh also known as the Battle of Pittsburg landing, will be celebrated over the next week at the Shiloh National Park.\u00a0 Stacker Lee on March 15 1864 enlisted as a 16 year &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/?p=1333\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XurE-lv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leelinesteamers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}