My mother’s family sent plenty of people to fight on the side of the North. While refurbishing one of the old family houses in the nineteen sixties, they noticed a discrepancy between the length of the house and the length of what was during that time, the main room. The back of a huge fireplace was hinged and behind it was a substantial room containing artifacts and newspapers from the civil war period. Apparently, it had just been forgotten about. Evidence indicated it was a stop on the underground railroad taking former slaves to Canada. I don’t know if any of the people who fought in the CW died or were wounded. (I have a pretty nifty calvary officer’s sword. It got passed down, but with no information.)
that’s cool- not that they had to go through it, but that there is evidence and that they were helpful in the fight i mean- love old stories and newspapers and artifacts- pretty neat that they recognized the discrepancy and decided to check it out-
I ran across an old newspaper with a story about Hank Aaron getting a record- and should have grabbed it, but it was in an old abandoned house, and wasn’t mine to take so i left it- woulda been nice to have a bit of history though-