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To: Texan
This summer we lost the last two sons of Confederate Soldiers that resided in Mississippi and both were from Corinth. One man's Father was a private in the unit where my GGGF was a Sgt. and he was this man's father's Sgt.(7th Ms Cavalry). The last widow of a Confederate Soldier in Ms lived here in Corinth and passed away back in 1987. The Civil War to many is just a generation or two away. Many of us, including myself, live and work on battlefields.
112 posted on 07/16/2011 9:15:18 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug
For many years I wrote back and forth with one of my elderly cousins over on my dad's side of the family ~ she was the daughter of an old Union veteran and a far younger woman who ended up being among the last Union widows.

Her husband, my Great Great Grandfather was held prisoner at Andersonville.

I think I got you equalled on the generation count Fur Shur.

One of their farms was used in Southern Indiana first as a hideout for runaway slaves. They buried the slavecatchers who came nosing around out in the old orchard. Their cousins were fighting Southerners in Kansas a good 10 years before the war started out (on a more formal basis).

120 posted on 07/16/2011 10:09:55 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: vetvetdoug

I love to read Civil War stuff. I’m sure you’ve read The Killer Angels.


129 posted on 07/16/2011 11:14:23 AM PDT by Texan
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