[PhilDragoo]

My great-to-the-fifth grandfather listed on the Ft. Pitt pay sheet for 1774 courtesy of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Hugh Mercer fought George II unsuccessfully and died fighting George III.

Although the media called it a quagmire and Washington's opponent deemed it "the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time" patriots triumphed.

Seven bayonet thrusts--yet no pissing and moaning for Purple Heart--

Grandson General Hugh Weedon Mercer CSA

And to think his line gave us General George S. Patton!

[SAMWolf]

Evening Phil Dragoo

My great-to-the-fifth grandfather listed on the Ft. Pitt pay sheet for 1774 courtesy of the Daughters of the American Revolution

Not knowing anything further back than my grandparents, I find things like this so amazing. It has to feel good knowing where you came from.:-)

Excellent commentary comparing real leaders in our history to the leader wannabes of today.

[Iris7]

Impressive, Mr. Dragoo.

Can't find any ancestors not here in 1800 myself. Probably all earlier. Brag, Brag, Brag!!!!

Actually they were all frontier subsistence farmers as far as I can determine, with "not a pot to p--- in", as my Dad put it. Not seen as very respectable by town folk, although very religious and totally moral.

My Dad's mother remembered her grandmother telling her of her mother taking all of the family to the County Seat in the farm wagon (all day trip) to watch the hangings.

Felons were dealt with in those days.

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!