For several years, my father had told me the story of how I had a great grandfather
who had fought in the Civil War against his brothers. Puzzled at the fact I
had not yet analyzed this aspect of my history, I began researching the Beamer
family of Convoy, Ohio. In my research I was able to uncover a great deal of
unexpected things. In fact, I would call the information I gathered treasurable,
as I was able to accumulate enough information that I really got an idea of my
families Civil War History.

By using several different search engines, I pieced together the history of the Beamers
that had lived in Van Wert County, Ohio. As indicated in the web pages, this family
experienced a rear case of the BROTHER VS BROTHER phenomenon after the
outbreak of the war. By using the search engine on ancestry.com, I found the identities
of the four brothers. Later, though a ton of Civil War pages, their roles in the war would
become known to me.

Indeed I was greatly helped by the usage of certain websights that are designed
to trace family history's. In addition, I gained a paid membership in such agencies
in order to gather the rather hidden aspects of the family history. There is no
doubt that this is one of the most interesting family saga's in American Civil War
History, but it is likewise one of the most confusing. It cannot be put into words
both the frustration of missing pieces, and the joy of finding those pieces and
beggining to understand.

The information I was able to gather from ancestry.com was the most instrumental
in abetting the completion of the websight. A propensity of other websights listed
in the bibliography further helped me to make sense of the jigsaw puzzle. However,
it was an article written by my father's cousin, that truly elucidated the story. This
article is also mentioned in the bibliography.

I apologize for any confusing pages in this account... it is very difficult to understand
this family history let alone explain it. My main suggestion is to look at the "Family
History" link. That seems to be the most straight forward explaination of the
family heredity.

There is no doubt that there will be continual revisions to this page in the time to come.
In the meantime I would like to thank my father for helping me with much of the infor-
mation I gained in creating this websight. I would also like to thank Dr. Schoenerr for
showing me how to make a websight.