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re: Civil war ancestors/family stories
Posted on 7/10/24 at 11:40 am to cwil1
Posted on 7/10/24 at 11:40 am to cwil1
My great grandfather who I grew up next door to and died when I was 10 years old's father was a boy during the Civil War. They built a corn crib deep in the woods when the war started so it would be hidden from both armies. They would send their only slave, an older man named Mose to hide there when the "patrol" (blacks called them the pattyrow) would periodically come around. It was a gang that would come around and whip the slaves to keep them in line because most of the menfolk were off fighting the war. There's a racist song on youtube, or used to be, about the pattyrow.
Deserters would get a C branded on their face and charcoal rubbed into it, then be told to go down to the creek and wash it out.
My cousin's gggg uncle was Admiral David Farragut. His wife's family moved down here from Tennessee when her ggg grand father was hanged for refusing to join the Confederate army.
Deserters would get a C branded on their face and charcoal rubbed into it, then be told to go down to the creek and wash it out.
My cousin's gggg uncle was Admiral David Farragut. His wife's family moved down here from Tennessee when her ggg grand father was hanged for refusing to join the Confederate army.
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Posted on 7/10/24 at 12:37 pm to grizzlylongcut
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Have a grandfather that fought for the good guys, Co. B 27th LA. Was captured at Vicksburg. We have his parole papers
Same, we might be cousins
He married the daughter of a MS infantryman he served with and was a POW with. My dad has a photograph of the one from MS from the battle, in uniform and holding his rifle. I'm from NW LA, BTW. I think that grandfather from the 27th is buried in either Ashland or Castor.
Posted on 7/10/24 at 3:07 pm to FuzzyBearE
My family is also related to the McCants and another family from that area the McNeelys
Posted on 7/10/24 at 3:46 pm to cwil1
My dad’s side of the family has been in same spot of north central Mississippi since around 1800
There’s a family legend that during the war I believe during Sherman’s Mississippi campaign, that yankee troops were making their way towards the homestead. Some of my family’s slaves had spotted them coming and went to alert the women and whoever else were present. The women collected all the gold and silver that they had and put it in a jar and had one of the slaves to bury it in a hidden place.
During all the commotion of the war and the aftermath the buried money was never recovered. Many family members have attempted to look for it over the years to no avail. I figure one of the slaves took it, but then again most of the slaves never left and stayed on as sharecroppers, and the descendants were still there until the 1960s.
There’s a family legend that during the war I believe during Sherman’s Mississippi campaign, that yankee troops were making their way towards the homestead. Some of my family’s slaves had spotted them coming and went to alert the women and whoever else were present. The women collected all the gold and silver that they had and put it in a jar and had one of the slaves to bury it in a hidden place.
During all the commotion of the war and the aftermath the buried money was never recovered. Many family members have attempted to look for it over the years to no avail. I figure one of the slaves took it, but then again most of the slaves never left and stayed on as sharecroppers, and the descendants were still there until the 1960s.
Posted on 7/10/24 at 4:00 pm to Odysseus32
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The truth that a lot of history buffs hate is that you have such a small connection to these people.
Small connection.... yet if it weren't for that connection we wouldn't even be here
Posted on 7/10/24 at 4:06 pm to Gee Grenouille
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My uncle told me if I ever looked into my ancestry I'd find things I didn't want to know, and he later asked me never to get my DNA tested. So I guess I'll never know.
You probably have yankee ancestors.
Posted on 7/10/24 at 7:05 pm to OBReb6
I have pure silver spoons (6 in total) that my maternal grandmother’s family hid during the war. My grandmother was an only child but not the only grandchild. She said HER grandmother didn’t want them split up and gave them to her before she died. And that was a big family secret because people knew they existed and didn’t know what happened to them. She never said anything about it to anyone but maybe my grandfather, because she kept them in the safe.
She told me all this a couple years before she passed away and gave them to me (as the oldest grandchild). She kinda looked around like she might get “caught” passing them to me. It was funny and sweet at the same time. Lord I miss that lady!
So now I have to pass them on to my oldest grandchild to keep the “skip a generation” thing going, if I don’t have them made into special jewelry pieces. I would love to have something made for my mom but then I would have to explain all of this and maybe answer to my aunt….and I definitely don’t want to do that!
She told me all this a couple years before she passed away and gave them to me (as the oldest grandchild). She kinda looked around like she might get “caught” passing them to me. It was funny and sweet at the same time. Lord I miss that lady!
So now I have to pass them on to my oldest grandchild to keep the “skip a generation” thing going, if I don’t have them made into special jewelry pieces. I would love to have something made for my mom but then I would have to explain all of this and maybe answer to my aunt….and I definitely don’t want to do that!
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:17 pm to No Colors
quote:I went to Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island about 4 weeks ago for the first time. Really cool place.
He was captured when Mobile fell and sent to a POW camp on Ship Island.
Pretty amazing that you had an ancestor imprisoned there.
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:22 pm to cwil1
I’m a descendant of Robert E Lee
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:33 pm to LAblue
Yes. Not much there either.
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:33 pm to CSATiger
Yeah. Most of Kentuckians family roots are in VA (Mine are in TN).
This post was edited on 7/10/24 at 9:34 pm
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:35 pm to rltiger
Another orphan brigade descendant! Nice. Mine was in the 6thKY. Their original flag isn't very well known. But it was a CSA national with 13 stars. With ''6th kentucky volunteers'' in gold cursive.
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:37 pm to msudawg1200
quote:Of all these milestones, this one was the most damaging to our country.
She remembered the sinking of the Titanic, both World Wats, women getting the right to vote, the Great Depression, the Cold War, development of nukes, invention( or first getting one) of the car, airplane, radio, telephones, television, and electricity in homes.
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:39 pm to Odysseus32
I look at it this way. If any of my civil war or revolutionary ancestors died.I simply wouldnt be here typing. If my GGG-GF who was in the 6thKY. Died in 1862. At the battle of Baton Rouge. I would have never been born. Neither would my mom, grandmother, great-grandma, etc etc..
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:39 pm to AwgustaDawg
There's 2 union monuments in KY. And a few in TN.
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:41 pm to cwil1
Grandfather in the 6thKY CSA.
—Your GRANDfather fought in the Civil War 160 years ago? You must be, what, 100?
—Your GRANDfather fought in the Civil War 160 years ago? You must be, what, 100?
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:44 pm to cypresstiger
Lol, I'm a lazy bastard. I just say grandfather rather than type. GGGG or GGG-grandfather
Posted on 7/10/24 at 9:45 pm to cwil1
Some of my ancestors came over from Ireland in 1848. The youngest brother was 8 when they entered the port of New Orleans. He was conscripted into the Confederate Army during the civil war.
Other ancestors from Mississippi were illiterate cotton pickers that moved to Texas after the civil war to pick cotton - I found my great-great grandfather’s application to get a pension
Other ancestors from Mississippi were illiterate cotton pickers that moved to Texas after the civil war to pick cotton - I found my great-great grandfather’s application to get a pension
Posted on 7/10/24 at 10:13 pm to cwil1
My Great Great Grandfather died at Vicksburg. About a year before the seize.
Posted on 7/10/24 at 10:18 pm to cwil1
One of my great great grandfathers was captured at port hudson. The Union did not have the ability to send all the prisoners to pow camps so they had them sign oaths to God and country not to raise arms against the Union again. After signing he made a b line to North LA and joined the Red River Brigade. They would push the Union out of our neck of the woods. This was how he came to be in the north part of the state.
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