[easternsky]

Thanks, sounds like a book worth buying. Been reading a lot on the Children of the South who were taken and made to work in the North. Granddaughter is Home Schooled and We read to each other as part of her assignment.

[VeniVidiVici]

May have to get this. Even though my ancestors started in Augusta County in the early 1700s, then migrated to Giles County, eventually ending up in the now Kanawha county WV in 1830, I can’t find more than a couple who actually fought in the Civil War. I’m sure there had to be more.

[yetidog]

My great-grandfather was from Rockbridge County and served in the Rockbridge artillery for most of the war except for one year he sat out because he was 15 when he enlisted. He returned at age 16 and served for the remainder of the war. I found his records in the Texas State archives as a matter of his state pension application which was based on his record of Confederate service. Fascinating stuff.

[bitt]

ping

[higgmeister]

I had two relatives in the 29th Alabama Infantry Regiment, CSA. My paternal Great Grandfather was in Company C and one of my maternal G. G. Grandfathers was in Company E.

It is odd to think that less than 90 years before I was born, they probably pulled duty, fought and worshiped together or at least knew of each other.