[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

My great-great-grandpa fought for *BOTH* sides of the Civil War. He was born & raised in the Ozarks near the MO-AR state line in a pro-South town. Enlisted in the Confederate Army. Was captured & placed in a POW camp in MO, removing rocks & stumps from fields. He eventually escaped & made his way home.

Discovered that while he was gone, a Confederate troop had come thru town, needing more horses, guns & ammo, clothes & shoes, food and other supplies, but only had Confederate Dollars to pay for it all. The townspeople, who were living a hard life as is, said No Thank You. The commanding officer pulled out his gun and said, "Then we'll just take what we need anyway" - and did so.

The townspeople were furious, and being so near the North-South border, it was an easy choice to just flip sides. So my G-G-Gpa basically said, "if my town & family & friends are now pro-Union, then so am I". He then enlisted in the Union Army and fought out the rest of the war.

[Myrddin]

That had to be tenuous to live right on the border of two civil war regions. My mom's family had participants on the Confederate side. Thankfully that is history now.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Today those Confederate dollars are worth more than a US dollar today.