re: Ancestors that fought in the Civil War?

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I assume they mean that they sharpened the blade with a leather strap. I do t know what that means.

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Tourniquet? Or they held him down with it to keep him still?

My great, great, uncles on my father's side were in Company I, 9th Louisiana Infantry, and were both wounded and captured at Sharpsburg, MD, and were both ultimately paroled; one lost a leg and became a Covington city judge and later state representative. He was killed when he fell from a train in South Carolina coming home from a Confederate soldiers reunion in Virginia. His brother rejoined the fight as part of a mounted infantry regiment, Ogden's Cavalry Regiment. He ended up dying in the early 1900's from some type of respiratory ailment. I believe both are buried in the Covington Cemetery.

My great, great, grandfather on my father's side was not part of any military organization, but operated a schooner on Lakes Pontchartrain and Borgne and was a well-know Confederate blockade runner who brought badly needed supplies and sustenance to the folks of St. Tammany Parish. He died shortly after the war of pneumonia and is buried in a family cemetery outside of Folsom, LA.

My maternal grandfather was from West Virginia; his grandfather was a Union soldier in a unit from Upshur County. He had some brothers and other kin who were Confederate soldiers in a unit called the Upshur Grays. So it was literally brother-against-brother as we often hear. My mom always told me my grandmother didn't get along well with a lot of her Unionist in-laws; she was from East Baton Rouge Parish and her family were staunch Confederates who still had vivid memories of how Union soldiers treated the local population in-and-around the parish during the war.

My ancestor is buried in one of the mass graves at Shiloh. It was documented that he was killed by grapeshot.

He was very young and his wife was already pregnant with his only child, a son, when he served. He met his infant son on a brief trip back home just before Shiloh.

Several direct ancestors that served, two that were killed.

One for the Union got killed in Tennesee a few months before the end of the war.

One for the South that got killed at Vicksburg.

My ancestors came here too late to participate in the first Civil War, but i have an idea as to who will be in the second one.

My ancestors were with the 38th and 7th Mississippi regiments out of Marion County. Mostly served in the western theatre. Shilo, Chattanooga, and Franklin.

on my grandmother side my 3x great-grandfather fought at port hudson and was a POW. on grandfather side my great-grandfather fought. both for the south, both made it to captain. both started at sergeant.