My daughter works at a historical house and museum and we have alot of contact with Civil War buffs and historians. This kid has her own hoops. Its Confederates down where we live and so far they have proven to be lovely people. They really like her, she is well spoken, curious, intelligent kid. Just a bit wacky with all the knitting and antique loving and stuff. If I wasn’t present at her birth, I might think she was some other woman’s child.
Love your tagline, and your attitude.
I am in what many consider “Confederate” country, Tennessee/Kentucky border. My ancestors were from Greene County TN., on the Virginia/N.C./TN border.
Truth is, my ancestors mostly fought on the Union side, although we were divided “brother against brother” in the Civil War, and I had ancestors on both sides.
The first Emancipation newspaper was published in Greeneville Tennessee, where my ancestors lived. The folks there fought bravely for the “Union,” and fought hard to break from the slave owning western part of the state.
Tell your daughter to read sometime the historical significance of the Greeneville Tennessee area. Lots of good (true) stories there. The “Thunderbolt of the Confederacy,” Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan, was killed there during the war when a union sympathizer, a woman, alerted the confederates that Morgan was staying at her inlaw’s home in Greeneville.
If you get a chance, take your daughter to Greeneville (I think you may be close to this area) and let her savor the history there.