emanuel stance

Subject: emanuel stance
From: GUEST,cmalston
Date: 21 Apr 03 - 06:48 PM

My 75 year old father, born in the ozarks, just found out that his very unusual name, emanuel stance, was a medal of honor winning buffalo soldier. We cannot imagine where his mother would have heard this name but from a song. I've done an hour or two of searching and it does not seem to be the title of a song, but maybe it will trigger someone's memory.

thanks

Subject: RE: emanuel stance
From: MMario
Date: 22 Apr 03 - 02:16 PM

He was the FIRST medal of Honor recipient from the 9th Calvary. 1870

found this snippet from The diary of Captain August Corliss "...Christmas Day (1876) 1st Sergeant Emmanuel Stance, Troop F, 9th Cavalry, was murdered between the Post & Crawford last evening, probably by men of his own troop."

it could well be that a big thing was made of the 50th anniversary of either his medal or of his death; and the name was remembered from that.

Subject: RE: emanuel stance
From: GUEST
Date: 24 Apr 03 - 10:13 AM

Thanks - She probably did read about him somewhere - I just knew that there was so much music in the hills and maybe this topic made a good ballad....

Subject: RE: emanuel stance
From: Giac
Date: 24 Apr 03 - 12:24 PM

Here is a good article about him, along with an illustration:

Emanuel Stance

Also, here is a link to a Google search that has a few sites about him:

Google results

Interesting stuff, glad you brought it up. No mention of a song though.

~;o) Mary