I never suspected your great great great grandmother as being the Confederate who murdered my Southern ancestor in Northwest Georgia.
The temporary exhibit at the Perryville Battlefield Museum I mentioned to some others in comment #115 also has a detailed look at the guerilla fighting that took place here in Kentucky, including a pistol carried by "Sue Mundy", the infamous Confederate guerilla.
A number of these outlaws did not fight for either side of the war, but merely used it as an excuse to rob, pillage, and murder.
“I never suspected your great great great grandmother as being the Confederate who murdered my Southern ancestor in Northwest Georgia.”
It’s not murder your ancestor had invaded their home and was ransacking and raping their people. They do have the basic right to defend themselves.
Just because you had the strength to enslave a population less then half your size after 4 bloody years of war, doesn’t give you the right to declare their noble resistant to your tyranny wrong.
Face it your ancestor and My ancestor(who also fought for the union) were fighting for a tyrant.
They did terrible things in the service of that Tyrant betraying everything our country stood for.