re: Your random but interesting family history

Son looks like he has all the makings of a good ole baw

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One of my grandfather's uncles lost an arm at the Battle of Antietam, but came back to Louisiana and served in the State Legislature when Murphy Foster was governor. PTSD ultimately got the better of him and he died a the War Veterans Home in Jackson, LA. 

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I had a great great grandfather wounded in some minor battle and became a lifelong morphine addict, an affliction so common during and after the Civil War it was known as "the soldier's disease." The morphine would come up from New Orleans on a riverboat. If the boat was late he would have "screaming fits."

Another great great grandfather was captured at Vicksburg and sent to a prison camp at Rock Island, Ill. He learned to make shoes and the camp commander wanted him to stay after the war and go into business with him but he decided to go back home.

Then there was the ancestor who was a 15 year old drummer boy. He nursed a lot of soldiers through a measles epidemic and never got suck himself, only to die of measles as an old man.

Lake Verret and Bayou Verret we’re named after folks on my maternal grandfathers side. My maternal grandmothers side were French nobles. Empress Josephine and my however many great grandmother were best friends. She married my however many grandfather in the palace. We have a painting of this lady in the LSU museum.

My paternal grandfathers family were amongst the first Acadians, settling in Loreauville then spreading out to Parks.

My grandmother was a James, her great, great uncle's were Frank and Jesse.

Supposedly I had a great uncle who was told to go out and get a loaf of bread, was gone for 2 or 3 years, but when he came back he had the loaf of bread.

probably one of those jokes people tell

had a great great grandfather who survived the Civil War but as shot to death in a dispute over a stolen pig afterward

might not be true but am pretty sure it isn't a joke