On my father’s side, two of my great-great-grandfathers fought in the Union Army through all four years of the war. But, on my mom’s side, the family came from Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri...and so I have forebears on both sides.
President Lincoln, at Gettysburg, set the stage for the healing of this great nation by honoring both sides. He was a truly great man.
My great, great, grandfather served in Co. B of the Georgia Volunteer Infantry from Green County. “Stock’s Volunteers”. He was wounded at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee and was paroled at Camp Douglas, Illinois
On my father’s side my relative was in the 1st Maine calvary. They got to the battlefield on the 2nd and saw action on the 3rd.
Another ancestor served in Co. F of the 15th Alabama Infantry before he was wounded and came to Texas