[AnAmericanMother]

"Genuine Cherokee Princess" is kind of like "General Washington's Personal Bodyguard" or "Colonel of Artillery, C.S.A."

Oral history does tend to exaggerate over time.

One of my gg grandfathers actually was a captain of artillery, but one of the others was a private in an Alabama cavalry regiment. He used to refer to himself as "plain private Long", and observed that he met so many captains and majors and so forth after the War, that he concluded he was the only private who had survived.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***but one of the others was a private in an Alabama cavalry regiment.****

Same here. My great-great grandfather was a private in the Alabama cavalry.

4th Alabama Cavalry battalion. (Love’s Battalion).

Consolidated with Phillip’s Leigon, Wade Hampton’s Cavalry Battalion(GA). Then merged into the Jeff Davis Missisippi Cavalry Legion.

Fought at The Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, North Anna, 2nd Cold Harbor Trevilian Station and the Petersburg seige.

Somewhere in those battles he was wounded and taken prisoner.