Three ancestors. Three. Served in the Union Army.
My debt (if I had one which I don’t) has been paid threefold.
One of my family lines in the deep South had 9 sons during the CW. Seven perished in the service of the CSA army. White guilt is wasted on me. Slavery had to end, and the Founding Fathers knew it 85 years before the CW. Sorrowfully, the tab was paid with the blood of 600K+ 153 years ago and then doubled-down with the undending debt created by the Great Society welfare programs started 53 years ago.
“Three ancestors. Three. Served in the Union Army.”
In the context of this thread I have to ask: were they fighting to “free the slaves?”
“Three ancestors. Three. Served in the Union Army.”
Seven men from one of my families were conscripted into the Confederate Army - three were shot for trying to join the Union, three died at Gettysburg, and one died a POW.
Of all my Southern ancestors that served the Confederacy, none had slaves. And because they lived in border states, several of my female ancestors saw their husband and sons on opposite sides. I cannot imagine that pain.