Editor in Chief Bill | 16 Nov 2020 10:18 a.m. PST |
You were asked – TMP link Did You Have an Ancestor in the ACW?29% said "yes, I had an ancestor in the ACW" 28% said "yes, I had several ancestors in the ACW" 19% said "no, I did not have an ancestor in the ACW" |
Frederick | 16 Nov 2020 11:45 a.m. PST |
Yes indeed! Two in my case (and wearin' the Union blue) |
Wackmole9 | 16 Nov 2020 11:53 a.m. PST |
2 union blues for me and one who turned down a Confederate commission. |
Rudysnelson | 16 Nov 2020 12:27 p.m. PST |
Several ancestors in the CSA, 30th and 31st Alabama Regiment which had the Randolph-Talladega counties recruiting area. Others in other regiments and at least one great uncle who fought for the north based on his mother's pension payments. |
DisasterWargamer | 16 Nov 2020 1:29 p.m. PST |
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377CSG | 16 Nov 2020 3:49 p.m. PST |
CSA – Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Florida – no Union as far as I know. (2 captured, 2 wounded, 2 killed). |
dantheman | 17 Nov 2020 7:03 a.m. PST |
Nope, mine were still in Italy and French Canada. My wife did have two though. Norwegian brothers that came over as draft substitutes with the hull promise of citizenship. One was captured at Cold Harbor and died in a confederate prison camp. The other survived and became my wife's great great (or so) grandpa. |
Murphy | 17 Nov 2020 10:22 a.m. PST |
At least two that I know of in the Confederate Army up till the end…(at least one of them never surrendered), and one confirmed from my wifes side that was in 144th Indiana Infantry, (never saw a battle, never fired a shot in combat), and a possible one in an Ohio Unit….not sure though. |
Old Wolfman | 17 Nov 2020 11:33 a.m. PST |
Union on my mom's side,Rebs on my Dad's side. One made sergeant in the 5th Kentucky Mtd. Inf,enlisting in 1862 when Edmund Kirby-Smith briefly had Lexington and Frankfort and got as far as Cynthiana. Another rode with John Hunt Morgan. Another served with the 8th Ohio Infantry. Might be others too;I'll check and see. |
Bill N | 17 Nov 2020 11:42 a.m. PST |
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sneakgun | 17 Nov 2020 1:44 p.m. PST |
5th NY Dragoons captured at Brandy Station, spent rest of the war in Andersonville, never was super healthy afterwards… |
donlowry | 17 Nov 2020 6:52 p.m. PST |
One GGF was first a pvt in the 20th KY (at Shiloh the 2nd day, in Nelson's Div.), captured by Morgan at Lebanon KY, later a 1st Lt in the 48th KY Mtd Inf. Another GGF was conscripted by the Confederates but escaped and went home. |
14th NJ Vol | 17 Nov 2020 7:08 p.m. PST |
Yep served in the 14th NJ. |
138SquadronRAF | 18 Nov 2020 9:16 a.m. PST |
In my family no. Safely ensconced in Southern England. My wife is a descendent of General Shields, who commanded the Army of the Shenandoah in the valley campaign of 1862. Shields was wounded at the Battle of Kernstown on March 22, 1862, but his troops inflicted the only tactical defeat of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson during the campaign (or the war). |
McLaddie | 18 Nov 2020 10:57 p.m. PST |
Two brothers in the 6th Vermont. Both died within a year of enlisting, one in battle at Mills Springs, April 1862 and the other of cholera in September. |
John the Greater | 19 Nov 2020 8:58 a.m. PST |
At least one, in the 42nd Iowa. Probably more, I need to get working on the genealogy of the Greater family. |
Wolfhag | 24 Nov 2020 9:09 p.m. PST |
Two with Adm Porter at Mobile Bay, one with the Philadelphia Zouaves. You can see his uniform at the Chancellorsville battle museum in a glass case. At least it was there 12 years ago. Wolfhag |
7th Va Cavalry | 24 Nov 2020 10:05 p.m. PST |
4 great whatever uncles and several cousins in the Laurel Brigade and Chew's Battery. |
Clays Russians | 25 Nov 2020 6:02 p.m. PST |
I had 5. Perry and John Stretch, 6 Missouri cavalry (federal) John was Perry's father, John was mortally wounded during Price's raid in November of 64 at Little Osage Creek and died at fort Scott Kansas. Jacob Stretch was a 1st Lt with the 88th Penn, he was brought down by a musketball on chin ridge at 2nd Mannassass, and discharged for disability. My mother's Great grandfather and his brother /GERMANS/ (George and William Pittenger Jr) served in the 70th Ohio. George mustered in when the regiment formed initially, little brother Bill (William jr 16 y.o.) was an 1864 recruit When the regiment was furloughed to recruit before rejoining Sherman's army in Georgia. No confederates I'm happy to say. |
KimRYoung | 26 Nov 2020 4:06 p.m. PST |
GGG uncle who fought with 50th Va. which surrendered at Fort Donelson (later exchanged). Fought in West Virginia. The regiment was transferred to Jones Brigade, ANV. Fought at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. Gettysburg would be his last fight as he was killed second day in the attack on Culp's Hill. Was buried near the battlefield until later interned and sent to Hollywood Cemetery to be buried in a mass grave with many of the dead from Gettysburg. Kim |