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Ulster-Scots Agency (1035 words) |
 | Orrs parents were very strict and conservative Presbyterians, who distrusted liberal trends within the church and community so much that they refused to send their son to school. |
| Orr has left us a valuable account of the events of that period, when the Presbyterians led the revolt against the authorities in the North, seeking to emulate their cousins in America who had played no small part in winning the Revolutionary War there. |
| Orr wrote in standard English and in Ulster-Scots, but it is a sad reflection of how effective modern society has been in eradicating the native dialect of the area that attempting to understand Orrs dialectic works almost foils the art of locals in his native village today. |
| Churchyard/Orr Family Museum (Genealogy) -- C: The Civil War Diary of James Laughlin Orr, 1838-1919 (covers Sherman's ... (2539 words) |
| James Laughlin Orr was born 31 October 1838 in Evansville, Indiana. |
| He was the son of Samuel Orr and Martha Lowry. |
| In 1852 James Orr accompanied his father, Samuel Orr, who was returning to Ireland to visit relatives in the old country. |
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