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I'm probably one of the few people on threads like these who cannot identify a relative who fought in the rebellion. My mother's people lived in eastern Tennessee during that period and while growing up she had told me that one of her relatives died during the war. At the time there were a couple of civil war programs on TV and I used to milk it for all it was worth among my peers, not only did I have a relative who fought in the Civil War but he was a Reb just like Johnny Yuma, and he died. Then about 17 or 18 years ago I attended a reunion of my mother's family and I had a chance to talk to someone who had the low-down on what had happened to my long, lost cousin. As it turned out, my relative wasn't a noble, Confederate warrior. He was a simple farmer in the Bristol area. He was also a Unionist, and in 1861 some of Isham Harris's men killed him for it.

So...you were proud of the fact that you could have a Confederate relative UNTIL, you found out that he was in fact a Unionist.

Sounds kinda two-faced to me NS.

I found out that US Grant was an Uncle. That didn’t make ME want to go out and disavow my Confederate relatives!

He was a simple farmer in the Bristol area. He was also a Unionist, and in 1861 some of Isham Harris's men killed him for it.

You sure it wasn't Parson "the Arson" Brownlow in 1866 having heard the same story about Johnny Yuma and such as you once believed.