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"My Virginian people were a bit more conventional. In the Tidewater early on, but not the first 15-20 years. By the Revolution, they'd moved West to Bedford County, most of the men fought in the Revolution, either in the Virginia Militia or the Continental Line, after the Revolution went over the mountains to Kentucky and Tennessee, where THE War found them on both sides of the line and slavery. My greatgrandfather in Tennessee freed his slaves when he was ordained before The War, because he thought slave-holding was inconsistent with Christian ministry."

Genealogy is a hobby of mine, and your post about your family history brings back memories of retracing my own.

I am still trying to find parents of GGGgrandfather, Scottish, born in Washington, Va. 1750. This line of the family went to Kentucky late 1700's. The women during this time are surely difficult to track. My Ggrandfather, born in 1814, yes, he was around 70 when my grandfather was born, fought for the North in the Civil War while in southern Kentucky.

Talk about a family feud that Civil War.

[CatoRenasci]

My Ggrandfather, born in 1814, yes, he was around 70 when my grandfather was born, fought for the North in the Civil War while in southern Kentucky.

It's amazing how close some of us still are generationally to The War. My grandmother, whom I knew well as she lived to 100, was born in 1871 and experienced Radical Reconstruction as a young girl, including having her family's house burned out by the Freedmen, carpetbaggers and scalawags during the election of 1876. I heard these tales first had. My Mother knew my greatgrandfather, the minister who freed his slaves, well, as he lived into her 20's. She heard the stories of The War firsthand from him and others who lived through it, many of the Confederate veterans. Including some of her grandmother's people from Kentucky who'd fought for the North.

In my Mother's family, it was a big deal when one of her uncles put on the Blue again for the Spanish-American War, and even when her oldest brother enlisted in World War I.